{"id":60315,"date":"2013-11-16T14:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T12:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=60315"},"modified":"2013-11-16T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T12:33:32","slug":"microsoft-congratulates-sony-on-ps4-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/60315-microsoft-congratulates-sony-on-ps4-launch","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft congratulates Sony on PS4 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next-gen console battle has been in full PR swing this year, and no doubt it will continue for the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>But Microsoft Xbox (or the person in charge of their Twitter account at least) decided to be a good sport and congratulate Sony on its 15 November launch of the PS4. Microsoft will get their turn next week, on 22 November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Microsoft-congratulates-Sony-tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-60316\" alt=\"Microsoft congratulates Sony tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Microsoft-congratulates-Sony-tweet-576x600.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Microsoft-congratulates-Sony-tweet-576x600.jpg 576w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Microsoft-congratulates-Sony-tweet.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The warm fuzzy feelings didn&#8217;t stop there, as Xbox Live Community Manager Larry &#8220;Major Nelson&#8221; Hryb took to Twitter to congratulate Sony President of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congratulations to @Playstation on their North American launch cc @yosp @amboyes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yoshida replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>@majornelson @PlayStation @amboyes Thanks Larry, your turn next week! \ud83d\ude00<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>D&#8217;aaaawww. See, we can all get along.<\/p>\n<h5>Via: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60288-destiny-beta-hits-ps3-and-ps4-first.html\">Destiny beta hits PS3 and PS4 first<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60279-the-last-of-us-left-behind-announced.html\">The Last of Us: Left Behind announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60270-dota-2-diretide-three-spirits-updates-roll-out.html\">Dota 2 Diretide, Three Spirits updates roll out<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/60290-ps4-bundles-games-peripherals-sa-pricing-revealed.html\">PS4 bundles, games, peripherals: SA pricing revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and Sony set aside their next-gen differences just long enough to be nice to each other &#8211; but will it last?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":59866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,8535,1239,1853,2353,10065],"class_list":["post-60315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-larry-hryb","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-shuhei-yoshida","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60315","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}