Yep, it's one of those wholesome posts again! Xbox celebrated the 20th anniversary of the brand in impressive fashion yesterday, and the team at PlayStation chipped in to share their congratulations in a message on Twitter.
It clearly proved popular with the masses, as over 29,000 people have liked PlayStation's message on the social media platform so far, and it even prompted Xbox to reply with the comment, "thank you, friend, games soon?":
This past Friday, Xbox boss Phil Spencer was also seen to be congratulating PlayStation on the PS5's first anniversary, telling PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst that "the teams did really good work under trying circumstances."
It's always great to see the two brands interact, especially to celebrate Xbox's 20th anniversary! You've got to love it.
Did you spot this on Twitter yesterday? Let us know what you think of the interaction down below.
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That was pretty cool of them. And let's not forget MS and Sony are still partnered for cloud gaming. They've been working together for a little while now.
It's nice and all, but it's a shame that over at Push Square Xbox and Phil Spencer are getting obliterated for the exclusivity of TES6 and Xbox essentially daring to have console exclusives.
@Medic_Alert tbf pushsqaure just published the same article as this site, so did this site also do it for clicks
Imagine these two working together to create a game, give it a few years and eventually gamepass will be on playstation either officially or modded
@UltimateOtaku91
I'd pay double for Game Pass to include both MS and Sony titles.
@SplooshDmg
There are many reasonable folks over there, but you don't see PS hate here as much as it goes on there regarding Xbox recently.
@gollumb82 me too and I can see it happening in a few gens time, even if its just via the cloud only
@gollumb82 Playstation community is far more toxic towards Xbox then xbox community is towards the Playstation. I'm not sure why they behave like that, they believe they have the superior console and games but if you go to twitter or even YouTube you'll just see them spending their free time hating xbox instead of playing actual games
A lot of ppl over at push square don't realise they Sony/Microsoft are in it for the money ,they see it as Sony love us blah blah ,they are a company like every other making money comes first , and they all so vocal about the Bethesda buyout but when spider man in avengers was announced they were all celebrating its exclusive to ps but the other way round nooooooooooo that's just wrong apprently
Needs to be a lot more cooperation between all the people that love to game. If we all came together we could change the WORLD.
Bethesda games aren't exclusive because they are all coming to pc day one. Just get a PC or an X/S. We've all made sacrifices.
@SplooshDmg I've heard that it's a den where even staffers dwell.
Nice tweet.
@Halucigens And since they say that nobody needs an Xbox because Microsoft's games are on PC they all must have high-end gaming PCs so what's the deal about the ZeniMax acquisition, anyway? They can just play Xbox games on their $3,000 PCs! 😁
@SplooshDmg you could say that
@Halucigens well they are console exclusive but yeah I do see your point.
And also more and more, it is even more pointless to own a Playstation too
It is funny to see two competing brands are more friendly than a lot of the fans! They are both great in their own ways. Do I have a preference yes I generally prefer Playstation but I dabble in the Xbox brand as well. Nothing wrong with liking both brands.
@UltimateOtaku91 Exactly it's been posted here, Nintendo Life, Eurogamer, Push Square etc. it's relevant news. Nothing unusual to see here or there. But some people want to see negativity everywhere they look.
@gollumb82 "There are many reasonable folks over there, but you don't see PS hate here as much as it goes on there regarding Xbox recently." Yet this whole comments thread seems to suggest otherwise. It's 50% bashing PlayStation and the blue version of this site. It's six of one half a dozen of the other. Which is a shame, we're all gamers and there's more that should unite us than divide us. Damn tribalism!
@BlueOcean I try not to pc game. My laptop was made to music/ video edit and that’s about it. It can game but nothing beats consoles for me personally. Plug it into the huge tv in the living room or use my spare 36 inch if I want to watch something and game. Or set up my s and we can couch coop. Lugging around computers isn’t fun and very bad for the internals.
@anoyonmus I just think there is a lot of brand loyalty which is understandable. I felt burned by the PS4 so I went back to Xbox. Game pass was enticing and very little I was interested in was coming to the ps5.
@themightyant I disagree. There is no hostility on this thread, just complaining about the hostility elsewhere in a much more elegant way. I mean, you must know this since you post on PushSquare. I bought a PS4 before my first Xbox console (Xbox One) and I noticed the hostility there immediately and I don't even think they're right so... Besides, the articles (and comments) they write about Game Pass and Microsoft are ridiculous.
@Halucigens I don't play on PC either. There's no point with Series X around. Besides, I bought an Xbox One because of backwards compatibility and after getting a PS4 at launch so for me Xbox (console) is necessary since 2015.
@themightyant
Well, if you think this is bashing Playstation then read the comments below in the article on Push Square. I used to frequent that site when I had a PS5, but I switched back to Xbox and find Pure Xbox is more civil in that respect. I do agree with you about tribalism though. If we could only see that we share the same hobby, platform of choice be damned.
Just do a PSvsXbox smash clone already!!!!
@gollumb82 I agree that the comments on that specific article are worse over there. Didn't say otherwise. But you'd expect them to be considering the subject matter. They lost Bethesda, we didn't, that's a sensitive bit of skin right there, and would be if the tables were turned.
I just see every time 'Playstation' is mentioned here there's plenty of 'check over at Push Square as they are losing their minds.' type of posts. Not helpful, constructive or even mature really. Why bother with what they are doing at all? Point scoring childishness.
@BlueOcean there are a few tossers and OTT console warriors on both/all sites. I actually block a few more here than there despite it being a larger audience there. Though most of that is on me not them, self preservation, as i'm a moth to flame with fanboys sometimes. Can't bear to hear guff. Trying to be better and not rise to the bait, but far easier to cut out the worst.
Most of the articles on Game Pass are usually from Sammy suggesting PS is missing out by not having it. Yes which leads to uproar, he's good at his job and knows how to coax engagement
Anyway i've genuinely sorry I bought it up. I know we feel differently on this and that's ok. No need for us to rehash the same old ground. Happy gaming.
@themightyant
A fair point. I know it's a different thing when your exclusives are organic, so to speak, and come from your 1st party teams. However, nobody said that MS needs to play by Sony's rules. I'm platform-agnostic and play wherever it suits me best, whereas most PS fans are just too stubborn to even admit that Xbox is worth having this gen. That's all on this topic. Appreciate the civil convo Ant 😉
@UltimateOtaku91 29UltimateOtaku91Yesterday, 7:30pm
"truerbluer so true and does get annoying listening to him when all he is doing is sugar coating the fact he wants to get one over on playstation, the way I see it Microsoft could bully the gaming industry with their money and will do if they don't out perform sony this gen."
Why even pretend...You're so obviously baiting.
@gollumb82 Always appreciate that! Enjoy.
@SpaceSamurai yeah and? What that guy said was also my view on Phil and his words, I don't have to like Phil to own an xbox
@UltimateOtaku91 Lets not play dumb, I've seen other comments. Bashing elder scrolls and how because they're so samey (which is really not true) Xbox will put it on PlayStation due to bad sales. There's a whole heap of crap you spout whilst toning down your version of context over here in some weird self medicating manner. Don't act like because you own a S you're not bias, and certainly don't pretend you're not baiting others into a vortex of meatless negatives about Xbox. I'm not going to get into with you, I've seen it all, your comments and poor attempts are drawing comparisons not to mention the veiled criticisms and shallow baiting. I see you, dude. So do others on here. Have some water, get some air.
@SpaceSamurai I literally said the same on here about how I believe elder scrolls would come to ps5 if it got bad sales. And yeah if I have anything negative to say about an xbox game I wouldn't say that on here as I'd get slaughtered yet on a playstation site I can say what I want without getting attacked (yet people bringing my comments from another site to this one)
@UltimateOtaku91 Because you're not here to really be a fan, rather a nit picking baiting Sony bias fan boy
@SpaceSamurai so all my comments on this site are doing just that? No
But the only comments that do get noticed are the ones biased towards sony... Figures
@themightyant If they criticise something that is wrong elegantly or ironically I think it's right. I don't like when it gets personal but that happens the most on Nintendo Life in my experience where I have blocked more users but I also have been posting there the longest. Whenever I've checked Push Square it gets either toxic or personal too often. I've been on Pure Xbox since the first time it was live and I can't help wondering what Pure Xbox users you have blocked because you said that you have blocked more people on here than on the other two sites.
@UltimateOtaku91 Think it through for a moment, you saunter over here to a Xbox centric fan site just to downplay and nitpick while at the same time pulling down the metaphorical pants of Jim Ryan over at Pusha square with a drooly droopy smirk and a twinkle in the eye, bashing Xbox and spouting how rubbish Phil is and how lame Skyrim is and yet expect us to believe your so called unbiased critcism isn't anything but a fanboy strop over Xbox doing better than your preferred console. You know EXACTLY what you're doing, maybe stop and ask yourself why you're doing it. Why do you feel the need to seek approval on both sites, why is it so important to have your opinion validated? You clearly prefer Sony and that's fine, but to drudge over here and try to downplay something that clearly the majority find exciting is either deliberate or desperate or both
@BlueOcean Don't we all but not tellin'
And yes NL is by far the worst. The hit squads attack in packs if you dare even whisper something not 100% positive about a beloved Nintendo title, it's truly nauseating.
But like PS it's also usually much larger in terms of comments so you'd expect a bit more BS in general.
To be fair, they're all OK compared to many of the toxic dives i've been on the net, that's why i'm here
Comes down to the size of the forum community. Bigger the userbase the more nonsense you will see.
I see it more on PS and NL but I have seen certain users here do it too - look for any thread where they can turn it into and Xbox vs Playstation boxing match. I just hope as this sites userbase grows more again it does not go the same way.
@Martsmall there's a lot of that on both PS and PX. I look on both sites quite a bit and there are a toxic few on both sides who seem to think the other is worse. It's very much the same but there are also a lot of legitimately good people on both sides too that just want to talk about games.
Good to see. The execs are a lot more grown up than some of the poisonous zealots that ‘support’ (hahaha) their chosen multinational corporation.
@Jaxx420
I don’t think it’s too bad on here. Push square is the worst for being a bit of a hive mind, and quite aggressive with it. NL has both zealots and anti-zealots who never see any good in anything Nintendo does so can be quite volatile. The Forum is more sane than the Comments threads.
However I’m old enough to remember pre-Internet, back to SNESvMegadrive and here in the U.K. the vicious fanboy battles over the 8-but computers. Essentially all fanboy zealots are as bad as each other and each platform has them in enough numbers to be a real irritation. And no group is really better or worse than the other.
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