What is/was Copilot on mobile and on XBox? I can’t keep track of all the different things Microsoft now calls “Copilot.”
It’s interesting that so many execs with a GenAI background are joining a gaming console division, and seemingly moving away from GenAI. Gamers are pretty hostile to GenAI, too.
Edit: As nhinck2 says below, all the new execs came with the new CEO from her CoreAI division. So maybe not so interesting after all.
It was supposed to be Copilot, with access to your Xbox account. So you could ask it things like "what achievements do I have in [game]?" It would also know what game you were playing, and answer questions like, "I'm stuck on [puzzle], give me a hint," etc.
The "on mobile" part was that it would be integrated into the Xbox mobile app.
(I say "supposed to be" because it was just a beta, and hadn't even made it to consoles yet – just PC and mobile.)
Runescape as well. Gold farming for membership bonds severely stratified the game's economy and pushed people towards Oldschool Runescape. From the introduction of bonds until 2017 the number of bots raised at a rate unseen since the switchover to the new skilling menu in 2002.
But this was replaced by Segasages/Gamefaqs. There are a lot of gamers now that will make a YouTube video about it. Seems like a replacement for no reason.
This is such a solved problem though (from my experience). Usually googling the location/quest/puzzle name gets the result you are looking for first time. No need for copilot.
Maybe it's just the type of games I'm playing, for example "how to get nyrulna" in google gives me my answer in the first search result.
I've used those occasionally and they seem to be a mix of official guides and user-submitted video clips, but it's not clear where the user-submitted clips come from.
On xbox mobile app you now have a copilot section. It's a chat. If you ask it for current price of something in the store, it will find outdated results from other stores on the internet. That's assuming the "send" button will work, mine often doesn't (it depends on keyboard you use somehow). But app will crash anyway so who cares.
Ending console development? So what even is Xbox after that? An also-ran Steam clone? The point was buying physical hardware, I thought, that ran the games perfectly without f'ing around.
Too late, no games, terrible service, Xbox has ignored its userbase since XSX release and with Steam getting stronger by the day, it is a little too late.
I only turn my XSX on for a few minutes so the SSD won't loose its data, to update and turn it off.
I got the new Steam controller instead of using my Xbox Elite 2 controller on Steam. XSX was my last interaction with Xbox as a whole, there is no future, not while Microsoft owns it!!
Look at what they did with the studios they bought, nothing!!
Look at what they did with COD, destroyed what was already broken.
Console is so dead that even Sony is making dumb changes pushing players to Steam.
Which is why exclusives matter, you don't go to Steam if the game is only on one of Switch, PlayStation, XBox, XBox PC, Android, iOS, Apple Arcade,.....
You don't publish such exclusive games on these platforms if there aren't enough people using the platforms. Even higher incentives from MSFT/Sony probably wouldn't help.
There are plenty of people using those platforms, even game developers prefer to target stable hardware, than zoo configurations.
However what isn't happening is the growth that shareholders love so much, because like in other industries those MBA folks still haven't understood there isn't such thing as an infinite exponential growth curve.
As 70's child, before those MBAs even cared games industry existed, many of us had to contend with a single new game per year, or learn how to program our own games, now we are in a state like 1983 crash.
There are enough games to play even on lousiest platform, than most people have time on their lives to finish.
It’s interesting that so many execs with a GenAI background are joining a gaming console division, and seemingly moving away from GenAI. Gamers are pretty hostile to GenAI, too.
Edit: As nhinck2 says below, all the new execs came with the new CEO from her CoreAI division. So maybe not so interesting after all.