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.

All the AI companies claim a total addressable market of literally every person on the planet.

Seeing as the new XBox CEO used to head an AI company, I'm not surprised she still has a similar outlook

You get a billion users on FarmVille type shit.

Why? You can put FarmVille in a browser or phone in front of a billion users.

They’re going to need to sell a lot of X boxes to get AAA size games in front of people.

They want 12.5% of the world's population to play xbox every day.

It's pure delusion. AI psychosis, probably.

They’re making mojang and king report directly to her, so yeah they’re going after the casual market

Still delusional lol

shes there to probably close down xbox.

Again.

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.

I think we're at a point where CEOs actually do believe thse things, because the whole thing has been going on for long enough where people who are dumb enough to actually believe what the shareholders want have gotten to the top. They've gotten there via taking in what the shareholders want and actually believing it, it's clear they're dumb enough for that.

The more time that I've spent talking to c-level suite occupants, the more that I've realized that they're the grown up version of that kid in high school who attended the same Cutco Knives presentation as you, and then immediately signed up because their parents were paying for the knives so that they'd "have a job."

This is how those morons think that they started at the bottom. They sat in the same presentation as the rest of us poors, but were rich enough to afford the scam. By the time they've inherited the same cash cow that their parents live off of, they've finished convincing themselves that they earned the reigns because of the years they spent looking busy while actually financially fucking over their parents by making them throw money at scam after scam.

Classic Glass Cliff, get a minority person to do the dirty work and fire them when the job’s done.

They're targeting the upper part of the K

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?

...or porn?

And stocks go up on the BS and never crash because it was wrong.

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.

"That's why we are pleased to announce Wukong Black Myth 2 as an Xbox exclusive."

Or mobile gaming? But they already own Candy Crush.

Given Microsoft's record on that, they'd do just as well pivoting to toasters.

And still won't hit those numbers.

Glass cliff again!

Strider?

Or making excel support gamepads.

Nepotism

Easy - they're never punished for failure. If execs lost their jobs and didn't get a cent for being fired due to incompetence, they'd be more cautious.

Golden parachutes mean that you have no serious incentive to do a good job.

Microsoft wants someone who continues to reach for unattainable growth in order to make their stocks keep going up. The problem is they would have to reduce cost to get more products in more hands and they know they won't do that. It's all just BS for investors

With the whole spiel of “you can press a button and the game will play itself for you” I don’t even doubt that’s entirely a possibility.

that's the only way that can happen. 1 billion users is like the combined total of the dozen most popular games, which are pretty much all mobile or have mobile versions.

This is really them just gasping for air while they sink. I predict they will eventually becomes just a publisher which I dont think is really a problem.

I actually liked the direction they were trying to head under Spencer, but not surprisingly, that doesn't make money. He dropped the ball majorly on new games, so they bet big on multi platform and buying studios and it just back fired on them badly. Seems like now they are trying to reverse course but it's probably too late.

Anyways, as long as they don't cancel/shelve Gears and AOE I'm happy.