Is Xbox endorsing use of generative AI to make games? A new memo written by leader Asha Sharma certainly seems to suggest so.
Question 1: With what money will consumers buy such a product?
Question 2: Will that product cost less money because less “human”* effort went into making it?
Question 3: Will the product be free because ownership of the product is ambiguous because the outputs were not created by humans?
*Humans is in quotes because AI effort is human effort that’s been stolen, both in the data used to train the AI and in the resources used to train and use the AI (utilities and so on plus the environmental impact).
You don’t get to say in one singular breath that you stole a bunch of stuff, used it without consent to make new stuff, and then got rid of all the people who make the stuff and now you want us to purchase your stuff for $90 when you and other companies aren’t paying people a living wage and nobody has any money but like 4% of the populace to buy said stuff.
What a surprise. She turned out to be exactly what people expected her to be when they saw her AI background. At least those who didn’t fall for the dumb PR campaign when she first got the position trying to sell her image as one of the fellow gamers.
These corporate types still don’t get it. Literally no one has put in critical thought beyond “numbers should get bigger”.
There will be no markets if humans do not make money, en masse, to keep them afloat.
You should’ve stopped at no “critical thought”. It really is “numbers should get bigger” and nothing more
Meanwhile, her parent company (which just removed 25% of its workforce and replaced them with AI), is experiencing a severe service outage.
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outlook-outage-email-teams-6376045281feb430c0b923e3a4b251c2
Probably all the Xbox users bring able to predownload GTA6 at suspiciously almost the exact time the outage started.
We can fire so many people!
Next generarion will just be a SlopBox (or eXcrementBox) built on slop hardware, to run slop games, for slop bros…who’d have slop play for them.
It’s so mind numbingly stupid from start to finish, while laying off anyone who could hope to fix anything. The brand is already brain dead, but they just won’t quit pumping IPs into the corpse.
Another nail in the coffin. I am so glad that Id Software and others reformed up independently, away from these vampires. The future of video games is definitely not with Microsoft
I don’t even care at this point. I was used to buying all the consoles eventually each generation, but if Sony and Microsoft are each given a monopoly on all games (by not including a disc drive and only supporting their own digital store), I just won’t buy hardware or games on either platform in the future. I am perfectly capable of pirating, or even giving up the hobby altogether…
Retro gamers already been ahead of the curve, and been more focused on either getting old hardware or new hardware to play their old stuff. We will be fine if retro gamers have been fine playing through old catalogs.
Sure this is going to save xbox
I mean, them crashing so hard a better company picks up all the great IP from them on fire sale is a type of saving Xbox
never gonna happen of course but imagine the goldmine for human creativity if all the ips they’ve been hoarding went to the public domain…
At least with Nintendo, we have a greater chance of Banjo-Threeie, Conker 2, and other Rare properties resurfacing.
Monkey paw: Amazon buys it all, and hires the engineers behind the Google Stadia, merges the system with Luna, and starts releasing Halo, CoD, Forza, and more, exclusively on their streaming hardware, requiring a prime subscription to play (including single player), and accounts without prime for more than 6 months have their saved data deleted (no way to export). Upgrade for only an extra $7.99 a month for FHD resolution and priority slots to play during peak times.
Except I specified “better” company. That would 100% not be better. Try again genie
On track to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
“Our plagiarism machine is going to be so good at innovation!”
This really makes me feel like she has no idea what game development is like. I’m mean, I’ve never been on a game dev team but I have read at least one fucking book about it. Even I know it’s not the toil that slows down game development. It’s all the thought work; creating stories, unique environments, fun encounters, and even just the way the game feels to players. Oh, and then making all that work together, which AI fucking sucks at.
Oh, it’s lots of coding! But lots and lots of tweaking, fine tuning and so on.
AI doesn’t seem to know how to do that, it just blorbs out a functionality that isn’t that tweakable.
Scope creep.
And those worlds will all look samey and bland.
With the ai “piss filter”
No piss filter, ultra think, make no mistakes
Hypothetically, even if that is the case, why should I buy it?
It used to be that there was at least some moral argument against piracy, in that it was worth supporting the human beings who make things.
But in a world where everything is made almost entirely by AI which have trained on scraped and stolen data, what argument is left?
None. There wasn’t one before, but now there REALLY isn’t one since the “content” is all pirated by “AI” already
But who will play them on what hardware and who owns it? Huh?
Not me, and not me!
Did the bots build her teeth?
What the!!
The more I see these headlines, the more I’m realizing that all companies are moving towards vibe coded apps. Is they are just going to be vibe coding, then why shouldn’t we?
