If you make AI slop, you have to compete with everyone else who is making AI slop. And pretty much everyone else is making AI slop with less overhead than Microsoft will EVER get down to. Shit, the new XBOX CEO probably makes more than most AI-centric devs/teams.
The advantage of being big is that you can gain access to resources and sources that aren’t available to competitors who are small. That’s real voice talent, amazing designers, capital to develop and maintain your own game systems (e.g. engines). So if you’re going to do small-company stuff while being big, you’ll always lose to the small companies (business-wise). Guess the new CEO either doesn’t realize this or doesn’t want to believe it.
Ok, but let me tell you about the regulatory moat we are digging with lobbyist money… It’s gonna be huge!
Raise the floor, drown the little guy!
(The large firms will just shed the unprofitable parts and sell the shovels of compute to whomever will use them untill they can size and enshitify the product of their labor)
What a stupid idea on their part, if accurate.
If you make AI slop, you have to compete with everyone else who is making AI slop. And pretty much everyone else is making AI slop with less overhead than Microsoft will EVER get down to. Shit, the new XBOX CEO probably makes more than most AI-centric devs/teams.
The advantage of being big is that you can gain access to resources and sources that aren’t available to competitors who are small. That’s real voice talent, amazing designers, capital to develop and maintain your own game systems (e.g. engines). So if you’re going to do small-company stuff while being big, you’ll always lose to the small companies (business-wise). Guess the new CEO either doesn’t realize this or doesn’t want to believe it.
Ok, but let me tell you about the regulatory moat we are digging with lobbyist money… It’s gonna be huge!
Raise the floor, drown the little guy!
(The large firms will just shed the unprofitable parts and sell the shovels of compute to whomever will use them untill they can size and enshitify the product of their labor)