Microsoft and Nintendo Team Up to Throw Shade at Sony

As you may know, Sony is currently in hot water because their refusal to participate in cross-play has started to become a real hassle, reaching the point where you can’t even play Fortnite on another console if you’ve already linked your Epic account to a PSN account. Microsoft and Nintendo, smelling blood in the water, have decided that it’s time to pounce on this wounded animal and really rub salt into the wound, so the two have decided to up their friendship game over Twitter.

Nintendo kicked things off by tweeting:
 

Hey @Xbox, since we can play together in @Minecraft now, did you want to build something?

 
Minecraft, referencing an old Nintendo-based meme, responded:

Our bodies are ready. What are we building?

And then the Minecraft twitter, which I remind you is owned by Microsoft, capped off the thread with:

Well since you two seem so lovey-dovey now, why not try building something like this? Have fun!

And threw in a picture of a heart, to really cement the friendship angle. But if you thought they were done, no sir: because at around the exact same time, Nintendo released a 30-second Minecraft video… showing a happy pair of gamers playing Minecraft together, one on a Switch and the other on an Xbox One.



Geez you two, get a room already.

Now, I’m not really one to congratulate giant companies for throwing shade at one another, but Sony’s attitude on cross-play has been a big problem for a long time and frankly, I’ll get behind any amount of pre-planned corporate tomfoolery if it shames Sony into doing something. And, to be fair, it won’t. Remember, there’s money in Sony’s selfishness, so they won’t even think twice about doing it. But, hey, who knows? Maybe the winds of change will blow…