embFeb 20

Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

https://lemmy.world/post/43385130

Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft - Lemmy.World

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Show threadjontree255Feb 20

I’d be surprised if Xbox is a thing in 5 years after this news. The way things are right now Microsoft can’t make an Xbox console that will succeed by any metric. Maybe it’ll stick around as software.

Phil had to salvage the brand after the fucking disaster that was Xbox One and I don’t think he was terrible but it clearly wasn’t working out.

Replacing him with the head of Core AI is a fucking joke though.

With the cost of hardware skyrocketing and Sony closing studios gaming is in a really dark place right now.

Show threadScrubblesFeb 20
I wonder if this is a huge demotion for the AI guy. AI teams in Microsoft are “good” right now, I wonder if he fucked up in some way and they put him on xbox.
Show threadjontree255

Yeah I don’t know. The knee jerk reaction Is “hey make Xbox have more AI”. She at least has the sense to have her first press release say “we’ll have no AI slop in our games” but we’ll see if that lasts.

CoD has been caught using AI art already.

Feb 20 at 9:29pmWeb
Show threadcaut_RFeb 20
The term „AI art“ irks me, IMO it tries to legitimize the virtual theft that it’s based on by implying there‘s a creative, artistic process behind it. It‘s gotta be a lobbied term.
Show threadjontree255Feb 21
Yeah thats fair. Slop is more appropriate.
Show threadP00ptartFeb 21
COD hasn’t been worth playing in ~12 years.
Show threadCethinFeb 21
The thing about that press release is that it fairly cleverly doesn’t say “no AI.” It says no slop. She’ll push AI, it’ll create slop (as always), but she’ll argue it isn’t slop and is actually great.