Xbox Throws Shade at PlayStation Trolls
Xbox has posted a meme on Twitter that throws shade at PlayStation trolls who are constantly comment «PlayStation is better» on the company's social media posts. Things like cross-platform play and cross-progression have helped tear down the boundaries between competing consoles, but the companies are still in the midst of stiff competition. Xbox and PlayStation especially still take shots at each other, with PlayStation actively trying to stop Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Generally speaking, the competing game companies tend to play nice on social media, but that doesn't mean their fans do. PlayStation fans often troll Xbox social media posts and vice versa, talking up their preferred brand and mocking the other's shortcomings. These trolls are ignored most of the time, but Xbox decided to post a meme today calling them out and going viral in the process, earning 44.9 thousand likes, 4,960 retweets, and over 1,000 quote tweets at the time of this writing.
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Every Halloween season, memes start popping up about checking Trick-or-Treat candy for bizarre objects. Xbox got in on the fun by posting a Snickers bar with «PlayStation is better» tweets sticking out of it. The caption with the tweet read, «Please check your candy this year!!! We found troll posts in ours and they won't stop repeating the same thing over and over.» While many responded positively to Xbox's tweet, which is clearly meant to be a joke, others have predictably lashed out against it.
Some have taken to the comments to accuse Xbox itself of saying PlayStation is better as part of its attempts to get the Activision Blizzard acquisition approved. It's true that
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