I believe it was Sun Tzu who said, “when your enemy is making a mistake, do nothing.”

Just going to ignore the part where he didn’t lie even though that’s how you started this whole chain huh?

Or maybe some flavors just don’t go well together.  This ain’t chocolate and peanut butter.  It’s more like orange juice and toothpaste.  

There’s nothing “loaded” about the question. It just requires him to take some sort of moral stance, and he’s unwilling to do so, so he didn’t answer it.  Which is answer enough.  

Nazis are like zombies.  It’s always okay to deal with them, and you do so in exactly the same way.  

He didn’t answer at all.  He deflected.  

Doesn’t change the fact that it would be bad journalism not to ask it.  Being a journalist is sometimes like being a lawyer: you ask questions you already know the answers to and questions you know will be answered with lies or obfuscation because getting the lies and obfuscation on record is your job.  

Shes deliberately asking a question she knows someone tied up in all sorts of NDAs and legal documents can’t answer transparently.

Technically the present is the only thing you can look into.

It’s not a silly question.  He’s deliberately asking a question he knows the answer to because he wants to see if Spencer will answer it truthfully.  And, of course, he didn’t, which itself says something.  

If anything he invites readers of the interview to take a look into Xbox’s past with the answer he gave.

This is 100% Spencer keeping his head down because he doesn’t want the spotlight turned from Activision to Microsoft.  

After checking the structural composition of his own domicile, Spencer has determined it’s not in his best interest to start throwing stones.  

I played the game, and there were certainly some very scenic areas, but they were all scenic in a dreary, Pacific Northwest way.  Nice if it’s your thing, but it’s no comparison to the vibrant colors and varied environments of Ghost of Tsushima.  

He said it as though it were fact.

Yeah, until Nintendo puts an actual date out there, I’m not taking any release window seriously.  

This is especially true when it comes to Sony, who values their reputation as a source of “prestige” titles almost as much as they value their bottom line.  

It’s also worth noting that RDR2 rewards your persistence with an excellently written story in a genre that gets very little attention from the video game industry, and Days Gone rewards you with a generic zombie apocalypse.

Just because it wasn’t fun for you doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun for a number of the other 8 million people who played it

A fair point, but I think that’s a symptom of GoT just being a better game.  It held its value longer because it’s something special.  Days Gone didn’t retain its value because it’s a more generic experience.