Microsoft leadership genuinely truly believes AI is the future instead of a massive fucking blackhole and scam.
This AI ghoul is being placed in charge of xbox in order to bring AI to their features in an all-encompassing way, making AI the very foundation of the entire brand.
It is going to be spectacularly bad.
Let me guess, they picked her specifically so that when things crash and burn, the
types will be so furious about the WAMENS that they won’t even consider examining why microsoft is shitting the bed, and instead just blaming woke for it.Saying nothing about this person in particular, leadership does not require knowledge of the thing you’re overseeing. It doesn’t hurt, but it’s not like Mr. Gamer himself Phil Spencer didn’t oversee the crashing of the entire brand.
A lot can be said about Xbox and the state of the gaming industry writ large, but it’s clear to me that Microsoft is done with Xbox as a physical platform. Given the state of the hardware market, there is probably little internal appetite to do something as resource intensive as a full console launch.
It’s extra funny because the one job that could be pretty easily replaced by an LLM is CEO.
Ex-Box
I’m still not clear if she’s an executive in charge of AI or an AI simulated executive. Neither would surprise me given Microsoft’s direction at the moment. Has anybody counted her fingers?
i bet she hasn’t even played a single match of halo multiplayer. the xbox has fallen.
The glass cliff strikes again
I mean, not to totally disregard your title, because you may absolutely be correct about that, the same is true of every other video game company CEO as with this one, I’m pretty certain.
Don’t you love it when you are working for a big company, and they announce that the new CEO is from Coke or Pillsbury or Ford or some other industry that has nothing in common with yours, but somehow just doing the same job as the last know-nothing that they fired, using the same current popular experimental business strategies, is going to be better this time?
And then they pay them millions to fuck it all up, while they pay you a pittance to try to keep it together, as they fuck it up.
It’s a thing with CEOs in all industries. Like I used to work for a manufacturer of machines that recycled plastics. We had the same CEO in Sweden goin back to the 90’s that was very entrenched in that hyper specific industry but he was fired. He was replaced by someone who’s previous background was being a CEO for a company that made standing desks.
PlayStation’s CEO was the founder and head of Guerrilla Games. Not that it’s stopped him from shutting down studio after studio.
The huge price jump for gamepass definitely seemed like something you would do if you had no future plans for the platform lol
It’s known as harvesting
The price of gaming in general is just taking the piss now.
Only if you buy games immediately when they come out. They’re fairly cheap if you play games that came out 2 years ago. The pricing model seems to be geared around kids getting the latest game as a gift or with allowance or something. And psychological manipulation if it’s a free-to-play game.
It depends on the company/game I’m guessing. Space Marine 2 came out 2 years ago and is still £60 on PS5. Most of the old Call of Duty games are still £40-50 on the PS Store as well. Baldur’s Gate 3 is still £60. Assuming the discs are cheaper but I don’t really have the storage space for them anymore, so I’ll just stick to the games I already own. I don’t get bored of Minecraft or Skyrim much anyway.
Games are definitely more expensive on consoles. Especially games exclusive to Nintendo. PCs are of course much more expensive to buy. So maybe it’s only true of games that don’t have a graphics-intensive art style.
Video games should really just be stuck on 2010- 2016 graphics.
Most modern AAA game takes like 32 gb ram to not play under 30 fps at the very least. Maybe their logic is if their game is like unplayable without really good pc or ps5 that means their game would be less likely be pirated, but that ends up just not having people buy in the first place.
Meanwhile games like terraria minecraft even dare i say it league are like most popular games ever and i believe part of it is that you can actually play them on something like college laptops.
The video games I play most often are still Minecraft and Skyrim due to price and storage requirements. Last year I started a Minecraft “forever world” for the first time and have been enjoying building in it.
Thats fine, I got rid if all my Xbox hardware. I just hope they dont kill of masterpieces like AOE.
Looks like this will be the tenth Xbox in a row I’ll end up skipping over.
What is this from, and how do the words on the picture correlate to the title of your post? Is there a link to something
I don’t have a link myself (except from my own brain slop gaming website), but basically they put a Microsoft AI executive to be in the position of the gaming department, and she has no experience in that apparently.
i spent the last fifteen min or so looking to see who she was compared to who the previous was. Apparently he was a g#mer CEO or something and the new one isnt so all the other g*mers are mad or whatever so i guess its not sexism but im not a gamer so I have no Idea wtf is going on.
She cares about birthrates and works at Microsoft, so maybe that clears up what kind of tech-fascist she is.
bunch of xbox fanboys think Phil ruined the brand for whatever reason. there’ll be some defending him but it’s not universal
separately, joke censoring makes your text less accessible so have a thought on whether the tired bit is worthwhile
bunch of xbox fanboys think Phil ruined the brand for whatever reason
Pretty easy to see why looking at the state of Xbox
that shit fell off a cliff for me when they fumbled with whatever the console after the 360 was and the drm and all the weird non-gaming shit they were advertising to a gaming audience.
bunch of xbox fanboys think Phil ruined the brand for whatever reason
Objectively speaking, he did. Whether he is directly responsible or not, he’s the figurehead.
separately, I don’t care.
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