Sony CEO: Microsoft’s Response To The PS4 Pro Was “Quite Intriguing”

PlayStation chief, Andrew House, stated to have been 'quite intrigued' by Microsoft's response to the recently announced PS4 Pro.

During the PlayStation Coming together earlier this calendar month, Sony appear it's enhanced PS4 panel, the PS4 Pro. Although 4K and HDR uniform, the Pro lacks 4K Blu-ray support, something that some Microsoft Xbox executives used to promote the capabilities (including 4K Blu-ray support) of their Xbox One S, and fire shots at Sony on social media.

4K streaming & Blu-Ray ✅
HDR gaming ✅
Greatest games ✅
twoscore% smaller ✅
Xbox One Southward from $299: https://t.co/GzguOUfMeV pic.twitter.com/vWb6r1x9PD

— Xbox (@Xbox) September 7, 2022

Fifty-fifty Microsoft'southward caput of Xbox marketing, Aaron Greenberg, took part in the rivalry past claiming superiority of the upcoming Xbox Scorpio.

Proud to bring True 4K gaming & most powerful console e'er made coming with Project Scorpio https://t.co/kTiy4cdtBo https://t.co/ipIGJWI1r1

— Aaron Greenberg (@aarongreenberg) September vii, 2022

Xbox chief non also fond of negative dialog following PS4 Pro declaration; Sony chief "intrigued'

Following these tweets, Microsoft'south caput of Xbox, Phil Spencer, expressed his "dislike of the negative dialog", and stated that Sony'south did a nice job with the PS4 Pro reveal.

In an interview with DigitalSpy, Sony CEO Andrew House responded to Microsoft's attitude towards competitors, and called information technology "quite intriguing".

Digital Spy: Xbox'due south response to the announcement terminal week was interesting, certain execs took to social media to "burn shots" at the two consoles, and they put out a press release about the relative capabilities of the Xbox One S and the Slim and the Pro. What did yous make of their response?

Andrew House: I thought it was quite intriguing given that we'd seen a year of stories near "a new and different Microsoft" in terms of their attitude towards the competition.

Digital Spy: It'southward like the new and gentler politics nosotros've got back dwelling house that lasted a couple of…

Andrew House: That was rather short lived, wasn't it?

Sony appears to have a good head start with the PS4 Pro releasing this Nov for $ 399. Microsoft has yet to further detail its Xbox Scorpio, and a price hasn't been shared. Co-ordinate to the company's senior manager of product management and planning, the price tag for the Xbox Scorpio has to brand "sense to console gamers". The Xbox Scorpio is expected to exist released somewhere next twelvemonth, but co-ordinate to Phil Spencer, developers are already optimizing for the Xbox Scorpio's 6 TFLOPS GPU ability.