Xbox boss Phil Spencer just lately took goal at Sony over its PlayStation content material unique offers, which has drawn the eye of former PlayStation govt Shawn Layden. Spencer, whereas speaking about Name of Responsibility, referred to Sony’s previous content material offers with the franchise as “slimy platform issues.”
Spencer irked by PlayStation unique offers however Xbox has a historical past of them
Layden didn’t have any phrases to share, however did use gifs on X to speak his ideas very clearly.
Layden was additionally seen interacting with fairly just a few tweets that had been both vital of Spencer’s feedback or appeared amused by Layden’s response.
Many have argued that Spencer was making a basic reference to platform unique offers, however he was particularly speaking in context of Name of Responsibility’s 10 years of content material preparations with PlayStation.
Though Spencer has been an enormous advocate of dropping exclusives, Microsoft continues to enagage in exclusivity wars, so his feedback are just a little baffling. Even when we ignore the Xbox 360 period, Rise of the Tomb Raider was famously taken off of PS4 for a complete yr whereas Spencer was in cost. Video games like Starfield and Redfall had been in improvement for the PS5 when Spencer-led Xbox purchased ZeniMax and pulled them off of Sony’s platform, and so forth.
Let’s not neglect Matt Booty discussing spending Sony “out of enterprise.”
