It was inevitable that at least a couple of PlayStation team members would pop up to celebrate the launch of Halo Infinite with the Xbox team, and former SIE Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida went a step further with it.
Yoshida and members of the Xbox team were seemingly in the same restaurant at the same time last night ahead of The Game Awards, which led to Yoshida sending over a bottle of wine with his compliments on the launch:
It seems the Xbox team were having dinner with a variety of people from outside the company last night, as many of them ended up taking to Twitter later in the day to also thank Yoshida for sending over the wine. It went down well!
Separately, Yoshida congratulated Head of Xbox Phil Spencer on the launch of Halo Infinite via Twitter, which prompted Spencer to reply with, "thanks Shu". Former PlayStation exec Shawn Layden also did the same thing yesterday.
It's always great to see these kinds of interactions between the Xbox and PlayStation teams!
What do you make of this? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments below.
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Every time I see one of these headlines I come here expecting to finally see Jim Ryan be classy but of course that's too much to wish for.
Nice to see there are some classy execs at Sony, though.
Of course it was Shu, Was never going to be that miserable ba****d Jim, Please get rid of him 🙏🙏
Yeah I love stories like this.
I'd expect nothing less from Layden and Yoshida, class acts the pair of them 😊
Jim Ryan on the other hand...
From one wealthy elite to another. It's nice to know the top executives exchange wine and congratulations amongst themselves.
It would be nice to hear more stories of exucutives sending gift packages to all studio employees or something. I'm sure it happens in most launch cases, it's just not as glamorous as millionaires patting other millionaires on the back.
Inb4 some hardcore (not all) playstation fans say Xbox paid Shu to send over the wine for positive media coverage like they did for the good Halo Infinite reviews.
Shu's a legend.
Aix rosé is a top choice too.
Congrats Greeney.
Lovely stuff all round!
They don’t make many like Shu.
@JON22 what???
How You Share Wine in Redmond
@Somebody @LocalPenguin @UltimateOtaku91 @Tharsman Was going to basically say the same. Glad everyone beat me to it! Jim would have been sitting at the restaurant figuring out which bottle of wine would tip his cash back rewards into the next bracket and therefore generate a positive ROI, then use the resulting photo op with Xbox staff to promote Deathloop.
Of course, "Sony execs" is pushing it. Shu's in the doghouse and banished to running the (barely existent) indie program at Sony, and Shaun's not even a Sony guy anymore, he's an indie consultant. All casualties in Jim's spreadsheet crusade.
How much for a bottle of that stuff?
I don’t know if it’s the same but a bottle of AIX wine on Amazon UK is £20!!
@JON22 they are not fans in my opinion more like followers who treat the gaming as theology rather than a hobby 😆. Halo has enough of a fan following that it doesn't need ***** like that. Personally I'm not a big fan of Halo but I respect its fanbase enough to know it can stand on its own two feet!
@FatalBubbles There's people on the 'twitter streets' saying Microsoft paid reviewers for good scores. Probably trolls. But there's a clip of a playstation twitter space meeting
I saw on YouTube where someone literally loses their 💩 over Xbox saying lots of n words and all that. Grown adults too. Guy who's channel I saw it on is called turboverse or something like that.
@NEStalgia Don't have to turn this into passive aggressive thing. Just enjoy the fact that there's some camaraderie amongst those not invested in console fanboy warz.
@Rafie I don't dislike Jim because I'm an Xbox fan. I dislike Jim because I'm a PlayStation fan. And he screwed over Shu and Shaun whom I genuinely like. This is a reminder of the PS that used to be under the old leaders. Thanks to Jim, Shaun's not a PS employee at all and Shu's been reduced to a minor leadership role. I, and I think most PS fans would have been very happy to see Shu or Shaun move up into the CEO chair. Not sure how the spreadsheet marketing guy from the EU office got it instead.
The only people who are "against" each other in gaming are the ones who only play one machine
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