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Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 157 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] lilPossum@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

I see it as a good thing, maybe another videogame market crash is exactly what we need so they'll understand that not every game needs to have an overblown budget, bloated content, micro transactions, massive player retention, sell a billion copies and win awards to be a good game, it's about time videogames are recognized as being pieces of art first and products second

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Gaming is most definitely not in a dark place right now

Steamdeck, Gaming on Linux, indie games, Arc Raiders, skies are blue and the sun is shining my friend

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 35 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Gaming is in a great place. AAA gaming is not, because of-fucking-course corpos don't understand art.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It’s in a dark place because it is going to eventually become unaffordable to those who haven’t purchased a console or pc or handheld yet due to the ram shortage. I guess mobile gaming will become the main focus like it is in China.

[–] OscarRobin@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Xbox is just going to be a brand/publisher I reckon.

There’ll be ‘Xbox verified’ console PCs or somesuch that aren’t necessarily made by Microsoft, and there’ll be the Xbox app for games and streaming, and Xbox published games.

And then another 5-10 years later they’ll phase that out and just be ‘Microsoft Gaming’ or somesuch branded, and the last traces of Xbox will be gone.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 30 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 31 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

COD hasn't been worth playing in ~12 years.

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

Yeah thats fair. Slop is more appropriate.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

A silver lining is that the NVIDIA/OpenAI deal was cut by ~70% this week, so hopefully the reality of AI not being a panacea sets in for those who have been driving the prices up. If the planned data centers never actually get built, production will shift back and consumer pricing should adjust accordingly. The MBA class will keep trying to manipulate it artificially of course, but they'll only be able to keep the ruse this far from reality for so long.