Back in February, Microsoft announced that it was pulling the plug on the original Xbox Live Service. A few eyebrows were raised and people started to wonder why. What did Microsoft have up their sleeves which meant they had to kill the good old Xbox Live which was the home of Halo 2 multiplayer? The speculation was rife with most people coming to the conclusion that all would be revealed at this years E3.
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
Its the inevitable fate of any closed platform. Sooner or later they will cause people to move on to the next system. So more software can be sold. I fully expect this to happen with current gen consoles too.
Gaming has become very generic. Asides forcing people to make the jump console makers wont have much of an option soon. Watch the next COD as it basically will just have a 5 hours SP campaign, the MP part will just be simulart to MW2 with new maps(of course later they will bring the MW2 maps on the game, they will just charge for it).
Luckily on PC we still got gems like CS1.6 running, Sc1, Warcraft 3 and with many different classics. It would be awesome if people would just port MW2 maps to MW1 and even the next cod maps to MW1 since the game is basically the same. Open Platform FTW.
I don't recall a fee for the original XBL. Without a fee to pay the people operating it, and to sustain its equipment, the answer seems pretty obvious to me.
Because nobody played it for they had 360's