{"id":259174,"date":"2020-11-13T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=259174"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:45:34","slug":"259174-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/259174-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox\u2019s Congratulatory Tweet To Playstation Is Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Despite the fans of these two consoles always being at each other\u2019s neck whilst online, Xbox has taken the first step into uniting the fans bases by personally congratulating Sony over their widely successful PS5 launch.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the same week, across the world, the PS5 and Xbox Series S have been released to the public, with both consoles being widely successful in their own right. As the leading console makers, this is expected, but the congratulatory tweet from Microsoft\u2019s Xbox wasn\u2019t!<\/p>\n<div class='besocial-iframe-wrapper'>\n<div class='besocial-iframe-rich'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Generation after generation, it&#39;s a pleasure to game alongside you. Happy launch day <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PlayStation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/715L30KiwL\">https:\/\/t.co\/715L30KiwL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Xbox (@Xbox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Xbox\/status\/1326902679549997063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The series of tweets read:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Generation after generation, it&#8217;s a pleasure to game alongside you. Happy launch day @PlayStation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further down the thread, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, went on to congratulate Playstation as well.<\/p>\n<p>It read: &#8220;Congrats to Jim Ryan, @yosp, @cerny, @hermenhulst, @igTedPrice and the entire team at Sony @PlayStation on the PS5 launch. Great accomplishment during these challenging times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, if this threat wasn\u2019t already wholesome enough, Herman Hulst, Head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, replied to the tweet too, saying: &#8220;Thanks Phil. What a great week for gamers around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1oteowz\">\n<p>&#8220;We hope both our consoles and all our games bring joy to people during these challenging times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Playstation has currently only been released in the\u00a0US, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. We\u2019re going to have to wait until the 19th here in the UK, unless you\u2019re prepared to cough up a considerable amount of money to get it early!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fans of these two consoles always being at each other\u2019s neck whilst online, Xbox has taken the first step into uniting the fans bases by personally congratulating Sony over their widely successful PS5 launch.\u00a0 In the same week, across the world, the PS5 and Xbox Series S have been released to the public,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":259176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[71,2033,2032,1454,1295,2034],"class_list":["post-259174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-worldwide-news","tag-news","tag-playstation","tag-ps5","tag-worldwide","tag-worldwide-news","tag-xbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259215,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259174\/revisions\/259215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}