Xbox’s Major Nelson says that announcing a console without showing it ‘worked for’ PS4

As humans, sometimes we say and do things that are in direct contradiction with one another. The important thing to do is to learn from your experiences — and I think Microsoft is doing exactly that.

In February 2013, Sony announced the PlayStation 4 without actually showing the system. That didn’t go without a comment from Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, one of the faces of Xbox at Microsoft. Three years later, Microsoft used a similar strategy for revealing its Project Scorpio update to the Xbox One — and a few people pointed that out on Twitter. Once again, Hryb wasn’t afraid to make a comment.