MS responds to PS Classic with a salty tweet. Immediately backfires [Update: US Twitter Clarification]

You heard it here, folks. Xbox is giving away 500+ games completely free now. Wait, what? You mean you have to buy the games first? Then whatever do they mean?!?!

Update: Xbox saw the error of their ways. Worded the US Twitter differently.

This is why you don't tweet while you're shook. ? By a rival's classic console nonetheless. See you next time when MS sends out another snippy tweet against Sony... only to beg for crossplay soon after.

Where's the backfire to the tweet?

You are a sad little puppy

The fact that they claim you can play the games free. But that's not really true. They have to be purchased/acquired still.

Then provide some examples in your OP.......don't just make a thread saying 'backfire' and then post nothing.

Everything MS do at the moment backfires.

Looks like this thread backfired.??

The ocean called, it wants it's Salt back

Bovine backfires are the best...lol

Thank you MS, for the gamers... Jazz. :P

Not sadder than your favorite company getting frowny faced over this silly thing.

Read the tweet string. That should be easy enough.

@BenjaminBanklin: You know what they mean, that or you're the type of person who drools all the time and picks your nose and eats it when you think nobody is watching.

i actually like this move by MS. it means they are trying and getting ambitious to take down sony.

Then why even state it like that? You have to buy their console and their games to play it on. It's not free* now is it?

Shouldn't they be advertising X1 games? Oh wait.

My bad. I forgot you're a fake cow.

It's pretty obvious that "free" refers to being able to play in on the xOne, not to you not having to own the game.

I think MS are assuming you already own the games, in any case Microsoft can't really say shit, Xbox didn't exist in the PS1 era, and the the PS4 probably no longer has the hardware capability to pass the anti piracy measures on the original discs (the copy protection worked by having access to the drive information about laser wobble on specific parts on the disc).

@BenjaminBanklin: Are you really this dumb? Trolling and stupidity are hard to tell apart on a message board, so which is it?

I think he means free hardware wise...

Bwahahahahaha haha!!!!!!

What a thread backfire. Should someone take a piss on this dumpster fire, or just let it burn?

@babyjoker1221: Lets let it burn, see what happens as it could be fun.

Why the hell are you so hostile? It would have been so much easier to say "Play the games you already own on Xbox One today". Instead they put out this hasty not-really-true salty tweet when that energy is better spent on, you know, promoting a game?

@vfighter: But the smell is horrible. I can smell it from all the way over in other threads.

I guess we'll just have to hold our nose and enjoy the show.

Super duper! I can buy Xbone and play all X360 and original Xbox games for free even if i don't have them. That's cool! Totally free!

Damn, you're still mad about earlier, huh? Looks like this tweet isn't the only thing salty today.

"free" that word coupled with consoles really has a new meaning to it doesn't it?

@BenjaminBanklin: Oh ok, you're just dumb gotcha.

Sorry, I didn't think you were gonna be offended. I'll check in with you next time so you don't get triggered.

Free? Now that's a word I haven't heard in a long time.....on consoles.

I give you credit for mentioning what happened earlier. Most people wouldn't do so after having such an epic meltdown. Props to you for that I suppose.

I understand that after the beating you took yesterday, that you awoke today feeling a bit off... Which resulted in you creating this backfired thread. I'll excuse it, but let's not have it become a habit. Okay?

Xbox can only dream of being as good as the original PS.

@scatteh316: go on Twitter, read the tweet, then check out the replies. Not hard.

You got wrecked so hard in that thread it's not even funny. It's was like MGK up against Eminem. I rather be 80 milion consoles me than 30 million consoles you. LOL!

But really though. This is a goofy thing for MS to get catty about. Especially with "free" being used too generously here.

I thought that tweet was quite funny myself although it looks like this thread has backfired very hard and that is hilarious as well. ?

I dunno. These threads are always fun to see for the "Who can get bent out of shape the most" factor. Xbox is serious business.

The games aren't "totally for free"?

Xbox is basically saying, if you own 500 Xbox games, and an XBOX, you get to play 500 games totally for free! The "totally for free" comment is just dumb since it requires one to previously own 500 games from prior gens. Thousands of dollars of previous investment. Let's put it this way, Xbots used to criticize the way the games that came with PS+ were advertised as free, do you think this comment makes any more sense in this context?

Retro consoles obviously aren't aimed at people who have vast collections of retro games lying around. They are aimed at people who probably tossed those games years ago, or perhaps at kids who never got them (so their parents can get them a few of the same games they had growing up).

Wrecked? The thread is there for all to see. How much sleep did you get last night sitting in the ER waiting to get those burns treated? Did the Dr prescribe you psyc meds?

MS aren't being catty, they're just poking fun with a tweet. It's not like they're rushing to make a commercial like Sony did regarding game sharing.

The "Free" part may have been a bit generous, but if you own the game, they aren't charging you again. MS has free bc is the basic point. Sony not only doesn't offer that, they're now trying to sucker you in to buying a whole console for it.

Free as in you don't have to buy the games twice.

But we know how this goes. If Nintendo does it it's because it's milking their fans based on nostalgia, if PS does it it's 4 da gamers.

I take "free milk" any day so Nintendo can spoiled me with games!!!

i would take PSX classic to any xbox games all day everyday.

But here's the tricky part. If you don't own those games already, then what's "free" about any of this? See? It's all about wording.

Anyway, I hope MS leaves the tweet up. It's a hell of a lightning rod so far. Microsoft... so rich, yet so petty.

@SecretPolice said:

The ocean called, it wants it's Salt back

Bovine backfires are the best...lol

Thank you MS, for the gamers... Jazz. :P

“When we've dabbled with backwards compatibility, I can say it is one of those features that is much requested, but not actually used much. That, and I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PSone, PS2, PS3, and PS4 games, and the PSone and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?” - Jim Ryan, Sony exec

LMAO But its different if you can charge for them again. My OG Xbox and 360 games on X1 are free because I already own the discs. Just pop 'em in and download. Thank you Microsoft and God bless the United States.

What does this have to do with Nintendo? The comment was made by Xbox account in response to a PS Classic release?

Obviously the comment would make zero sense from Nintendo, because like Sony, they aren't doing BC and they are charging us even for 8 bit games.

Xbox is doing some BC, but it's still an absurd claim to make "Play 500 games for free". Umm... no. I don't even have most of my 360 games anymore, let alone any OG Xbox games. Even if i wanted to play one of those games, I'd have to buy it in the marketplace or on ebay somewhere... i.e. it wouldn't be "free".

Read the name Xbox, starts bashing.

Benji!!!!!

Yeah, it's like claiming that Steam allows you to play thousands of games on your PC for free -- assuming you've already purchased them. In other words, they're not actually free, and Microsoft's wording is blatantly misleading. Folks in the Twitter thread quickly picked up on it.

Yup. You don't have to buy a version of the old console or pay to stream them.

BC is only a pro. Not a con.

Just as PC.