So. In the other post they promised not to go AI, but in this one we see black on white proof that she is totally gonna dive deep into ai gaming? Makes me think how much longer gamers (your typical cod/fifa gamer) will stay silent?

P.S. Players do not have to become loud. Best way to actually tell gaming industry to fuck off with their anti-consumer narrative is to vote with your wallet. Yes, it is that easy.

... we could have both industries... but fuck AI

Im surprised they gave up so easily. Like they have huge pockets and this is one of their signature products. It had 1 bad generation and they were just like well i guess we're cooked. There is so much to "innovate" on. They could have copied steams approach and had given their console a desktop mode that runs a stripped down but still fully functional version of windows. They could have made a console with good hardware.

Oh well at the end of the day a loss for Microsoft is a win for everyone else. They wont be missed by me.

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.

XSlop era.

The health of video games shouldn't be measured by what Microsoft does. That's like measuring the economy based on how a bunch of big companies are doing.

It's inaccurate as hell and doesn't actually take into consideration the small folks who make up the majority.

At some point you have to be impressed by Microsoft's dedication to ruining their own products

As an ex-record industry executive, I know what it's like to be part of an industry that decides to just shoot itself in the head.

I've got 2,000 steam games I haven't played yet. The era of the gamer has a big enough buffer to not end for years.

Anyone who thinks Xbox is still going to be worth anything is a fool. They overspent on gaming studios, didn't produce anything of value, gamepass value went down, and now everyone hates them for the constant enshittification. Even stepping back from "This is lemmy and we all hate microsoft" they have done some horrible business moves with Xbox. I don't know anyone who is positive about the brand. They have ran it firmly into the ground.

More wishcasting gigacope from window's personal diary. The windows gaming era may be over, that's the kernel of truth.

I'm just going to stop looking at articles with remotely sensational headlines.

the fact that they picked a woman of color to be the new lead of xbox lmao. least obvious glass cliff

PlayStation: we won?

Microsoft can just go on doubling and tripling down on bad decisions indefinitely and make it everyone elses' problem because they have so much money that it barely matters if they fail.

I think if anything this proves the Gamer Era has just begun: Free of corporatocracy.

so is microsoft just abandoning xbox like rumored?

Thank the good Greek lords for indie games.