Growth while laying people off like stupid. How is that supposed to work?
Clearly she asked Copilot to get these numbers.
Heavy emphasis on the word “wants”.
Not even Minecraft, which Microslop owns, has sold past a 4th of that amount lol.
And that’s assuming all of those users actually logged in at the same time after more than a decade of sales lol.
She was hired to lay people off.
Classic Glass Cliff, get a minority person to do the dirty work and fire them when the job’s done.
Also to cut out ai slop.
But let’s focus on the negatives.
You’re expecting the person who was literally president of the core AI division of Microsoft to “cut out AI slop”?
So I quickly re-read some articles. In general I can’t say these spark confidence. She comes from an AI division, instantly fires a bunch of people,…
And she also doesn’t explicitly say they’re not going to use AI. She says they’re not going to flood the market with ai slop. (We’re talking about microslop here after all)
So they could still put a medium amount short of a flood out there. And how does she define slop from regular ai? To you and me it’s all slop. But for a ceo they might define it as “oh right the six fingers, can’t have that”.
Hey if it turns out she makes xbox a succes for everyone so much the better, but until then let’s keep a little scepticism going. Gaming has always been about letting big tech know we’re onto their season pass/dlc/… bs. This should be no diffirent.
So she wants to capture the entirety of the financially active population on the planet. Who believes this nonsense?
CEO’s talking nonsense is to be expected at this point. I mean, SpaceX expects the “richest” 3 billion people on the planet to spend $10.000 a year on their AI (directly or indirectly).
There doesn’t seem to be any reason not to overhype and overpromise.
Is she pulling that number out of her ass? Steam can’t even get 50M per average days let alone 1000M
that’s one eight of the earth’s population, all playing xbox on the same day
it’s meaningless ceospeak to make investors salivate. this will not happen.
Well Asha, as income distribution goes to shit, good luck with your one billion number.
They’re targeting the upper part of the K
The quote is
I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect
Are they moving into other forms of entertainment like web, or media?
Those are already on the Xbox. It is a full media player. My kids rarely play games. But they watch Netflix and YouTube for hours.
Will it run edge?
Xbox already has Edge. Not terrible for quick couchsurfing honestly.
It’s not about Xbox the console, it’s about Xbox the company/service
…or porn?
This is an absurd number.
I hate how people just say random stuff that they think sounds good and no one questions it anymore because it fulfils their financial fantasy.
I was trying to compare this goal with the mobile gaming market, which is undeniably the biggest gaming market out there. Free Fire, a free mobile PUBG clone that became more popular than PUBG itself, had a peak of 150 million daily active players. This means you’d need at least to have the equivalent to 6.7 Free Fires running at the same time to even try to reach a peak of 1 billion daily active players (yes, I know, funny number). And Free Fire was one of those games that blew up like nothing else.
I want a robot horse, like one of my He-Man action figures had. It had like a laser canon mounted on it’s butt.
Strider?
He’s one of the rangers. Dangerous folk they are — wandering the wilds. What his right name is I’ve never heard, but around here, he’s known as Strider.
Strider?
I think so, yeah that’s old nueron firing back up.
There are nowhere near this many gamers on the planet. And since you guys (big tech) are literally buying up all the RAM there is you can’t even make new gamers because no one has any fucking money.
I also don’t have a lot of money for fun because no one is hiring because all the psychotic C-suite think AI is going to replace everyone. Or they think they can just squeeze labor harder and use AI as an excuse.
But either way, fuck Microsoft.
Totally man. Whole world is trying to squeeze blood from stone and literally everyone has no fucking money for anything.
It’s beyond insanity.
