Xbox CEO to Remove Copilot for Consoles and Mobile - News
by William D'Angelo , posted 1 day ago / 1,247 Views
Xbox CEO made a number of changes this week in regards to leadership at the company. This included bringing over several people she worked with in Microsoft's CoreAI division.
Despite having more people familiar with AI, Sharma has announced Xbox will be moving away from AI and will be removing Copilot, Microsoft's AI, from Xbox mobile and will be stopping development for it on consoles.
"Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers," said Sharma.
"Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business back on track.
"As part of this shift, you’ll see us begin to retire features that don’t align with where we’re headed. We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console."
Sharma recently admitted the team at Xbox still has work to do to despite having made progress since taking over.
"While we have made progress expanding the business and our margins, player and revenue growth has not yet met our ambition," she said at the time. "We know we have work to do to earn every player today and into the future."
One big change she has made is lowering the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to $22.99 a month and PC Game Pass to $13.99 a month. In order to justify the lower price, starting this year future Call of Duty titles will no longer join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch and will instead be added the following holiday.
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To be clear about this, Microsoft is scaling back Copilot throughout Windows and many other apps. Even the people who use AI often hate the universal integration. It's not like Xbox is making some kind of stand.
Sure... but a win is a win
She was also the President of CoreAI before moving to Xbox so I don't think this is as cut and dry as it looks.
Now remove it from the universe
Good Choice!
Good, copilot is trash
She seems to be talking well, but I will take the wait and see approach.
I'm not an Xbox guy, but I'm liking every major decision she's made thus far. Punt that shit like you did Windows 8, Zune, Windows Phone, Kinect, Clippy and Blinx the Time Cat, Microsoft.
From the outside looking in yea does seem like good decisions. With all that said not one decision has been made that has even come close to making me consider picking up the console.
Hey now... what do you have against Clippy? And Blinx was a pretty fun little series. Zune was prob the best alternative to an ipod on the market.
sounds more like you aren't just an Xbox guy... you aren't even a MS guy.
Hey Bill, how's life these days? You've been pretty quiet since you got namedropped in a certain set of files
