Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced that Microsoft will no longer develop Copilot for Xbox, and it's winding down mobile development as well.
“Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers,” she wrote, pointing to the changes within Xbox leadership. “Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business back on track.
“As part of this shift, you’ll see us begin to retire features that don’t align with where we’re headed. We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console.”
There’s got to be a solid amount of internal belief that copilot doesn’t have a future. They have no popular phone - no idea why they didn’t continue making Android phones. That Android game store they announced still hasn’t happened. No popular TV presence besides a limping along Xbox series console. People on windows aren’t using copilot. Even Amazon has a better shot because of their echo and fire devices. Companies developing internal AI tools, don’t know why they wouldn’t base off a regularly updated stable of local AI models as they come out like Deepseek, Qwen, Kimi, whatever
The windows phone they came out with a while back - actually wasn’t too bad. But they dropped the idea like a turd in a leaky bag, if they’d kept going and improving it they might have a competitor to android and apple by now.
If I’m not mistaken, most of Microsoft’s revenue is derived from enterprise, and corporate customers are largely just hands down not willing to accept the risk that comes with premature AI integration. MS is probably also recognizing this, because it seems like they’re backing off Copilot across the board
I miss Windows Media Center. It was so great back in the day.
I don’t think Amazon has much of a chance. People like their Alexa for the simple stuff. We had a free trial of Alexa+. On day 2 my wife was complaining about how slow it was, and by day 4 my 13 year old daughter had figured out herself how to switch back, because she hated Alexa+ so much.
Translation: We are making it look like we are giving up on this, but really we are just baiting to get you to relax, while we roll out our brand new gaming exclusive AI offering called “Microsoft Gamerbro TM”!!
Probably because they realize there is no demand or use for it, hopefully. Maybe, just maybe, we reached the point where it needs to justify its value and that the time spent integrating it is just not worth it. And last of all xbox is on its final leg, i think its detrimental that whatever the next step they take will have to be a win.
They have always known there is no demand for it. They don’t care. It’s all about line going up and deceiving investors in order to create unfathomable pay packages for CEOs.
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Seems like the financial people at Microsoft are tired of taking “but it’s the future!” As an end all be all answer.
Between this and copilot switching to token based billing, they’re the first company to seem to really be looking at how bad the financials are
Absolutely because it got roasted on April fools as the stupidest executive level idea in all of gaming.
https://youtu.be/DtfO9iCDrcM
Hey play this game I paid 60 bucks for for me
Why play videogames when I can have Ai so it for me.
Okay wait, they might actually be finally cooking. Will have to wait and see if they actually mean it.
Maybe they can move some resources to the remote play app now so they can begin the impossible task of turning off auto rotate.
There’s got to be a solid amount of internal belief that copilot doesn’t have a future. They have no popular phone - no idea why they didn’t continue making Android phones. That Android game store they announced still hasn’t happened. No popular TV presence besides a limping along Xbox series console. People on windows aren’t using copilot. Even Amazon has a better shot because of their echo and fire devices. Companies developing internal AI tools, don’t know why they wouldn’t base off a regularly updated stable of local AI models as they come out like Deepseek, Qwen, Kimi, whatever
The windows phone they came out with a while back - actually wasn’t too bad. But they dropped the idea like a turd in a leaky bag, if they’d kept going and improving it they might have a competitor to android and apple by now.
If I’m not mistaken, most of Microsoft’s revenue is derived from enterprise, and corporate customers are largely just hands down not willing to accept the risk that comes with premature AI integration. MS is probably also recognizing this, because it seems like they’re backing off Copilot across the board
I miss Windows Media Center. It was so great back in the day.
I don’t think Amazon has much of a chance. People like their Alexa for the simple stuff. We had a free trial of Alexa+. On day 2 my wife was complaining about how slow it was, and by day 4 my 13 year old daughter had figured out herself how to switch back, because she hated Alexa+ so much.
Translation: We are making it look like we are giving up on this, but really we are just baiting to get you to relax, while we roll out our brand new gaming exclusive AI offering called “Microsoft Gamerbro TM”!!
that name isnt awkward enough to say to be real
Microsoft Xbox for Windows Copilot Series X Console - $1000
is the $1000 part of the name?
Yes, actual retail price is $1500 for the cloud version.
goodbye linux, hello windows for copilot xbox series x - $1000 !
Very strange that they moved a bunch of AI executives into XBOX division, only to remove AI features, but you won’t hear complaints from me.
Its clearly not in demand anywhere but here we are.
The AI execs moving may just be them seeing the writing on the wall and abandoning that ship before it sinks.
Probably because they realize there is no demand or use for it, hopefully. Maybe, just maybe, we reached the point where it needs to justify its value and that the time spent integrating it is just not worth it. And last of all xbox is on its final leg, i think its detrimental that whatever the next step they take will have to be a win.
They have always known there is no demand for it. They don’t care. It’s all about line going up and deceiving investors in order to create unfathomable pay packages for CEOs.