I still remember the internet glazing this new CEO a couple months ago cause they lowered prices.
Like, cmon people. It’s a CEO. They’re all delusional. That’s how they got the job.
Honestly I was really excited for her when she took on the role.
It’s just been downhill since. One can be excited for change and still disappointed with the outcome.
For me the irony is how she was leading the AI team and now has to go to Xbox and talk about how memory and storage is just so expensive for some reason.
Growth mindset is delusional. But they think they have to be delusional to appease investors.
What’s dumber than CEOs making these predictions, is people thinking the CEO actually believes it’s possible.
They’re just saying what share holders want to hear, that’s all this is.
I think we’re at a point where CEOs actually do believe thse things, because the whole thing has been going on for long enough where people who are dumb enough to actually believe what the shareholders want have gotten to the top. They’ve gotten there via taking in what the shareholders want and actually believing it, it’s clear they’re dumb enough for that.
We’re losing the plot of civilization itself to a cannibalistic cargo cult making wild gestures towards the sky as pleas for wealth
The more time that I’ve spent talking to c-level suite occupants, the more that I’ve realized that they’re the grown up version of that kid in high school who attended the same Cutco Knives presentation as you, and then immediately signed up because their parents were paying for the knives so that they’d “have a job.”
This is how those morons think that they started at the bottom. They sat in the same presentation as the rest of us poors, but were rich enough to afford the scam. By the time they’ve inherited the same cash cow that their parents live off of, they’ve finished convincing themselves that they earned the reigns because of the years they spent looking busy while actually financially fucking over their parents by making them throw money at scam after scam.
The world is in a leadership crisis. For the last 60 years we have had decent leadership as the world changed and advanced in many ways.
Now the leadership class is entitled and in need of correction. I pray that they find it before the only prescription is more volunteer Player 2s
The world is in a leadership crisis
I’m pretty happy with President Sheinbaum. Don’t blame the world for your problems. I also don’t think the US had better leadership while it was literally lynching black people but what do I know
Leaders today are all raging narcissists. They are by and large not intelligent at all. Lacking in basic empathy for your fellow humans makes you able to advance in any current trash ridden corporate environment but at some point they end up on top of the pile and their ideas are still stupid.
Okay I’m nearing 50 so can only comment on those years but seemed up to say 2000 things were going better (okay not awesome but I so felt in the late 90s people were being more accepted countries got along better) cold war technically ended, tthough obviously not given Russian intrusions to everyone’s shit, seriously Russia FUCK OFF. You want to be invited to parties? Play nice for a fucking change.
But there’s been a serious downgrade to acceptable leadership since 2000 in western democracies (noticlby one with the largest military with the terrorist attack) maybe some more noticable than most but oddly after all that Russia could play their fucking online game of manipulation.
Now I’m not saying it’s all due to Russia, if countries spent more on education to see this stuff it’d be ignored. But nope people are educated to think it’s all right.
I’m not a scholar but I can see the division being made between people of a country to make it weaker, the worst part is the countries that are doing the weakening are shit and just stirring shit. Like a professional shit disturber.
One day I hope we educate people properly to see the crap is happening. I can see it plain as day and I don’t even study politics I’m just a programmer. I may be wrong but if you look at how outside forces influence a country it’s so plain, just put a bit in the tiniest crack and go to town.
Maybe if we saw we were more similar than apart we could figure out how to grow. I know it’s a pipe dream, I’m an idealist but I really just want us to grow as a species. Imagine if we could put all our budget into space resources, more for us, get along and cooperate. Sure some may live worse but many so much better. Nope we got to bicker what we got here for silly fucking reasons.
that’s one eight of the earth’s population, all playing xbox on the same day
it’s meaningless ceospeak to make investors salivate. this will not happen.
That’s one eighth of the earth’s population, all playing Xbox every day.
That’s more than five times as many daily players as total Xbox consoles sold in the past 25 years.
I agree that it is not going to happen. I love playing video games, but I don’t play them every day. Even when I do play, it’s not always on the same console/computer/device.
The only way that MS can get even remotely close to one billion daily users is with mobile gaming. Most of what I can find with a quick search indicates that nearly 75% of the world’s population has a smartphone. That kind of hardware distribution is hard to beat. But they would need a thousand apps that each have a million daily players to meet that goal, which is simply unrealistic, even for a company of MS’s size.
She wants to go mobile. That’s the only way to get those numbers.
“Do you guys not have phones?” - Blizzard in 2018 to a crowd of PC enthusiasts after selling PC games for nearly 30 years at the time.
I just don’t think you can add mobile to an existing platform lile PC or Console. You are marketing to other demographics… the ones that dont play PC and Console games…
I think it’s possible to do that, but just don’t expect the people on the other platforms to get excited about it. Using a phone as a primary gaming device is partially about mobility but mostly about budget (at least going by how I see it). Someone who already has a gaming PC or console doesn’t really want mobile games. Personally, while I used to have more of a variety of games on my phone, currently my only game is chess, despite considering myself a big gamer.
Blizzard’s mistake wasn’t in making a mobile game, it was thinking they could excite a room full of PC gamers with news about a mobile version of a big PC game, showing just how out of touch their leadership was. Like it should have been obvious that that presentation wasn’t going up be taken well and should have either just been a booth at blizzcon or an announcement that said “mobile game” right from the start. I forget where in the timeline that fell compared to their other blunders like WC3 reforged replacing the still superior WC3, but IMO it made those other ones more predictable because it was a clear sign their leadership was just chasing the money without a good idea of what gave them fans in the first place.
If xbox handles it better, it could work out better for them. Not for winning me as a customer, but for increasing users who do like to game on mobile environments.
Diablo Immortal was successful for blizzard on its own, though it’s hard to quantify lost business because of it (especially when it wasn’t the only thing hurting business for blizzard).
I’ll never understand how the dumbest people keep getting these jobs.
Easy - they’re never punished for failure. If execs lost their jobs and didn’t get a cent for being fired due to incompetence, they’d be more cautious.
Golden parachutes mean that you have no serious incentive to do a good job.
Nepotism
Microsoft wants someone who continues to reach for unattainable growth in order to make their stocks keep going up. The problem is they would have to reduce cost to get more products in more hands and they know they won’t do that. It’s all just BS for investors
I’m guessing she is the new Ellen Pao for x-box? Xbox is cratering and they need some good scapegoat to push through some more nonsense, so they put her there and once shits really on fire, they can just point at her
Glass cliff again!
Growth while laying people off like stupid. How is that supposed to work?
Hire people to create the illusion of growth, fire them to create the illusion that you know what you’re doing. The cycle of life!
Don’t worry, with cloud, I mean, blockchain, I mean, AI, it’ll all be possible.
How, you ask? - How dare you doubt our glorious vision for the future!
They say this at the same time as they are dropping a bunch of developers and saying they are focusing on AAA titles. What the hell does this company want? If you want billions of people, you want the casual market. Do they have some kind of sci fi dream of everyone on the planet playing some mega MMO? It’s not going to happen
You get a billion users on FarmVille type shit.
Why? You can put FarmVille in a browser or phone in front of a billion users.
They’re going to need to sell a lot of X boxes to get AAA size games in front of people.
The math does not even work with casual mobile games: MS owns King and hence Candy Crush, one of the most popular casual mobile games ever. At its peak Candy Crush had 293 million active monthly (!) players. So even if one is generous, those numbers comes down to some 10 million daily user. They want games that are the equivalent of 100 Candy Crush-es. It is pure folly.
That’s not how daily versus monthly works. If a user logs in for 30 days out of the month they are a single user. I’d guess that 300 million monthly is closer to 40 million daily. Still ridiculous and not close to a billion but a noticable difference.
This tells me that Xbox is trying to pivot to mobile games.
You guys have phones right?
I don’t think there’s any way this works out AND Xbox lives. I do remember my old Windows Phone with my little Xbox avatar guy waving to me as I open sudoku. I guess that’s what Xbox becomes.
But I don’t know this’ll work.
I guess you have to look if LoL Wild Rift was a success, because that would be the closest thing to a template for this.
They’ve had such massive luck in the mobile market before what with zune and windows phone :P third times a charm I suppose. I dunno, to me this company has no personality so it will be difficult in this market
They want 12.5% of the world’s population to play xbox every day.
It’s pure delusion. AI psychosis, probably.
Ew. I just imagined what a Microsoft MMO would be like and it wasn’t Flight Sim.
Well, you’ll get a copilot in the game so technically it could be a Flight Sim.
They’re making mojang and king report directly to her, so yeah they’re going after the casual market
Still delusional lol
shes there to probably close down xbox.
There are nowhere near this many gamers on the planet. And since you guys (big tech) are literally buying up all the RAM there is you can’t even make new gamers because no one has any fucking money.
She was hired to lay people off.
Classic Glass Cliff, get a minority person to do the dirty work and fire them when the job’s done.
Also to cut out ai slop.
But let’s focus on the negatives.
Edit: y’all can Google her plans with Xbox yourselves. I truly don’t give a shit about arguing with confidently incorrect smooth brains.
You’re expecting the person who was literally president of the core AI division of Microsoft to “cut out AI slop”?
So I quickly re-read some articles. In general I can’t say these spark confidence. She comes from an AI division, instantly fires a bunch of people,…
And she also doesn’t explicitly say they’re not going to use AI. She says they’re not going to flood the market with ai slop. (We’re talking about microslop here after all)
So they could still put a medium amount short of a flood out there. And how does she define slop from regular ai? To you and me it’s all slop. But for a ceo they might define it as “oh right the six fingers, can’t have that”.
Hey if it turns out she makes xbox a succes for everyone so much the better, but until then let’s keep a little scepticism going. Gaming has always been about letting big tech know we’re onto their season pass/dlc/… bs. This should be no diffirent.
Gaming has always been about letting big tech know? Could have fooled me. If corps learned anything about gamers it’s that they are entitled hypocrites that don’t save money.
Ya got me there buddy. Damn, my main argument entirely dismantled just like that.
You’re naive if you think AI slop will ever be cut out of anything ever again.
Yea fucking right
3,200 people were just laid off but yeah let’s not focus on the negatives
So 1/8 of every person on earth using an Xbox product every single day. That’s unimaginably ridiculous.
What if… Your computer is an Xbox and your mobile is an Xbox
Boom. Nailed it
Honestly it be doable if they started making phone games.
that’s the only way that can happen. 1 billion users is like the combined total of the dozen most popular games, which are pretty much all mobile or have mobile versions.
