Ambition is good. Delusion isn’t strategy.
I’ll never understand how the dumbest people keep getting these jobs.
Nepotism
public kpi: outlandish - probably never will happen internal kpi (during annual review time): got somewhere close to the steam numbers (but nothing really competed with it)
Growth while laying people off like stupid. How is that supposed to work?
Hire people to create the illusion of growth, fire them to create the illusion that you know what you’re doing. The cycle of life!
Clearly she asked Copilot to get these numbers.
Heavy emphasis on the word “wants”.
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”?
You’re naive if you think AI slop will ever be cut out of anything ever again.
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.
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.
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.
That’s one eighth of the earth’s population, all playing Xbox every day.
That’s more than five times as many daily players as total Xbox consoles sold in the past 25 years.
I agree that it is not going to happen. I love playing video games, but I don’t play them every day. Even when I do play, it’s not always on the same console/computer/device.
The only way that MS can get even remotely close to one billion daily users is with mobile gaming. Most of what I can find with a quick search indicates that nearly 75% of the world’s population has a smartphone. That kind of hardware distribution is hard to beat. But they would need a thousand apps that each have a million daily players to meet that goal, which is simply unrealistic, even for a company of MS’s size.
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.
…or porn?
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
