To say it’s been an “interesting few weeks” for the Xbox brand is an understatement. A little while back, the first reviews of its “dedicated handheld” highlighted once again how Microsoft is more interested in rushing out a product to promote it, versus making a complete product that people might actually like and want to buy. And then, just when things couldn’t get more hilarious, the gaming publisher announced the release of Halo on PlayStation, an event that has gotten a LOT of people talking about the “end of the console wars.”
One of the people talking about this move was the current president of the brand, Sarah Bond, who noted that, in her opinion, many gamers feel exclusivity is “antiquated” and that the company has “moved beyond that.” One person who wasn’t buying that was a former Xbox VP and former president of Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Ybarra. Check his Twitter reply to the interview in question:
Ouch. Oh, but it gets better. Because someone tried to bite back by saying that it was “Nintendo that is antiquated,” and Ybarra wasn’t having that at all:
And while that troll continued to try to prove his point, it’s actually incredibly easy...
