A $2.5 billion acquisition was made for the Swedish company Mojang. Makers of the wildly popular video game Minecraft. This is a slight departure from a refocused Microsoft, but the big question remains. Will the purchase ultimately help Microsoft win its supremacy battle with Sony in the current Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 war?
Minecraft's 15th year anniversary is being celebrated with a new free map, one filled with memorabilia from the game's history.
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.
....you know it takes people to program the AI.... right? It isnt like it is sentient. We haven't reach skynet level of situation or anywhere close to the matrix just yet.
That's next Thursday.
It takes a people to program the AI then that AI is used for who knows how many games eliminating countless jobs which only grows as AI is used for more and more game creation functions.
What you're saying is so ridiculously short sighted and truly larking any kind of understanding and foresight.
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.
Yes we can't wait for the work of others to be used without the need to pay them so that MS can profit even more from the people they fire.
There is no chance I'd ever use something like this, especially if it's not part of the core game design, but a layer on top of it. It's way too much handholding. Many games already feel like busy work, because they don't let the player figure things out on their own. Having a real-time interactive guide defeats the purpose of playing the game in the first place in my opinion.
If this were to become the standard like you predict, we'll see more and more video games get away with bad design, because people will just be used to ask for help from the AI companion anyway.
Well Nintendo don't need this with some of their games these days, with invincible characters, items, easy bosses etc.. they do the hand holding built in
The Microsoft Store has hinted at the upcoming release of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on Valve's digital distribution platform, Steam.
1 major advantage to this will be launching it straight from SteamVR. You have to make a custom shortcut to get it working right now in VR.
This is good news. It will be much easier to get it installed on my devices without using workarounds.
Lol Nope. Anyways, Microsoft is so idiot, of course they gonna buy others companies, due to the lack of games for Xbone.
Everyone already has minecraft on every device they own and all the money from that is in mojang's pocket. Honestly not really sure what Microsoft plans on doing with it other than releasing sequels for it. And if they change it up too much it won't really be minecraft anymore.
- The game has made most of its sales already.
- The game is available on a multitude of devices other than the Xbox.
3 years ago, this investment would have been fantastic. They have put $2.5 billion into the hope of a single IP remaining stable. Mojang made $129m profit last year. It would take 2 decades for Microsoft to make back on their investment unless they have a gargantuan plan to make Minecraft blow up, when its already blown up and peaked as a franchise.
So, they would have to bring out an exclusive sequel that had the same mass appeal Minecraft had and it would have to be a fundamental improvement to what is already a massively customisable and open game, OR they would have to have Mojang make another hit as big and culturally significant as Minecraft (NOT happening), to make even a dent on the lead PS4 has.
In summary….. the answer is "no".
This acquisition is well beyond console wars. That's not why they did it.
Lmfao at this article, off course it can! ........ NOT