McDonald’s Mocks Xbox While Showing Off Cool Consoles After Microsoft’s Earth-Shaking Activision Deal

Published 01/20/2022, 1:45 PM EST

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Social media pages of the companies often engage with each other in some hilarious interactions. Such interactions often prove to be quite entertaining for the fans watching and provide an added sense of drama and amusement from these handles. One similar interaction took place on Twitter between Xbox and McDonald’s, which is indeed amusing to read for every user out there!

Xbox and McDonald’s engage in hilarious interactions on Twitter to amuse fans

It all started with McDonald’s tweet which said “reply 🤏  to steal a fry.” To this, the official handle of Xbox replied with the 🤏  emoji, meaning to steal a fry.

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McDonald’s replied with an image of a McDonald’s themed Xbox controller with the buttons replaced with the 🤏  emoji.

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Xbox once again replied to that image with a controller of a similar style but with a red color scheme and a pack of fries.

Replying to this image, McDonald’s handle hilariously replied “are u trying to acquire me too”. This was a reference to the recent $70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. The deal was marked as the most expensive deal in gaming history and had created a landmark for Microsoft. Besides this, Microsoft had previously also acquired Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax, for a whopping $7 billion.

Fans reaction

Users on Twitter have noted this hilarious engagement and have reacted to the same in the thread’s replies.

One user says that if this acquisition works out, McDonald’s should be essentially free to Game Pass subscribers.

This one GIF indeed sums up Phil Spencer at this moment!

This user thinks that the hamburger button on Xbox does make sense at the moment!

One user even suggested an addition to the menu and called it X-Muffin!

One user raised an important question of whether the ice cream and shake machines would work regularly.

Another user expects McDonald’s to start making games as well!

One user suggested games for this acquisition to stay one step ahead of Burger King!

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This one user thinks that McDonald’s should rather reacquire Steak Egg and Cheese Bagel back into the menu.

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What do you think of this possible acquisition between McDonald’s and Xbox? Let us know in the comments.

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Siddid Dey Purkayastha is an eSports author for EssentiallySports and is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Arts degree at Christ (Deemed to be University). He has always been into gaming since the ripe age of 9 and has never looked back. Apart from his deep love for narrative-driven or campaign-based games, he enjoys casually playing online games such as Valorant, Fortnite, FIFA Ultimate Team, Warzone, and GTA Online.
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