{"id":103821,"date":"2016-09-09T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T05:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103821"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:09:16","slug":"microsoft-teases-sony-about-the-playstation-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/103821-microsoft-teases-sony-about-the-playstation-pro","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft teases Sony about the PlayStation Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has taken a cheeky jab at Sony following the announcement of the PlayStation Pro.<\/p>\n<p>With reactions surrounding the new console being relatively mixed, the company quickly used the time for some clever marketing with the following tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">4K streaming &amp; Blu-Ray \u2705<br \/>\nHDR gaming \u2705<br \/>\nGreatest games \u2705<br \/>\n40% smaller \u2705<br \/>\nXbox One S from $299: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GzguOUfMeV\">https:\/\/t.co\/GzguOUfMeV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vWb6r1x9PD\">pic.twitter.com\/vWb6r1x9PD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Xbox (@Xbox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Xbox\/status\/773608657007280128\">September 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company then followed up with several more tweets, letting consumers know that the console is available right now and is backwards compatible.<\/p>\n<p>While it was all just clever marketing, many have expressed that\u00a0Microsoft could actually be making a valid point.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Do you think Microsoft actually has a point? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Here\u2019s what games look like on the PlayStation 4 Pro\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/103795-heres-what-games-look-like-on-the-playstation-4-pro.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Here\u2019s what games look like on the PlayStation 4 Pro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The most awkward moments in PlayStation history\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/103449-the-most-awkward-moments-in-playstation-history.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The most awkward moments in PlayStation history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Crazy Afrihost Free-Time ADSL special launched\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/103791-crazy-afrihost-free-time-adsl-special-launched.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crazy Afrihost Free-Time ADSL special launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what Microsoft thinks of Sony&#8217;s new console.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681,4],"tags":[31,4567,21835,10065],"class_list":["post-103821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-funny","tag-playsttaion-pro","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103829,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103821\/revisions\/103829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}