Xbox's CEO wants its games to cater to 'more than a billion people each day', or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional

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.

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.

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.

Ew. I just imagined what a Microsoft MMO would be like and it wasn't Flight Sim.

They want 12.5% of the world's population to play xbox every day.

It's pure delusion. AI psychosis, probably.

shes there to probably close down xbox.

I also don't have a lot of money for fun because no one is hiring because all the psychotic C-suite think AI is going to replace everyone. Or they think they can just squeeze labor harder and use AI as an excuse.

But either way, fuck Microsoft.

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.

All the AI companies claim a total addressable market of literally every person on the planet.

Seeing as the new XBox CEO used to head an AI company, I'm not surprised she still has a similar outlook

Again.

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.

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.

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!

Those are already on the Xbox. It is a full media player. My kids rarely play games. But they watch Netflix and YouTube for hours.

Will it run edge?

...or porn?

They're targeting the upper part of the K

Nepotism

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.

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

And stocks go up on the BS and never crash because it was wrong.

"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...

CEO's talking nonsense is to be expected at this point. I mean, SpaceX expects the "richest" 3 billion people on the planet to spend $10.000 a year on their AI (directly or indirectly).

There doesn't seem to be any reason not to overhype and overpromise.

With the whole spiel of “you can press a button and the game will play itself for you” I don’t even doubt that’s entirely a possibility.

"That's why we are pleased to announce Wukong Black Myth 2 as an Xbox exclusive."

Or mobile gaming? But they already own Candy Crush.

Given Microsoft's record on that, they'd do just as well pivoting to toasters.

And still won't hit those numbers.

Glass cliff again!

Or making excel support gamepads.

Strider?

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.

This is really them just gasping for air while they sink. I predict they will eventually becomes just a publisher which I dont think is really a problem.

I actually liked the direction they were trying to head under Spencer, but not surprisingly, that doesn't make money. He dropped the ball majorly on new games, so they bet big on multi platform and buying studios and it just back fired on them badly. Seems like now they are trying to reverse course but it's probably too late.

Anyways, as long as they don't cancel/shelve Gears and AOE I'm happy.

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

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.

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.

I do wonder does that count if it's bloat that's preinstalled in the phone?

yeah but that would mean xbox games would have to be more like mobile ones. thats a product destroying idea if I ever heard one.

Personally I'd argue that PC/ Console gaming and phone games are entirely different markets with largely different overall products. It's like comparing someone who drives an 01 Toyota or a 91 Polski Fiat to someone who daily drives a cyber truck, like sure they're all cars but the actual practical overlap in the products is basically being on four wheels.

Regardless Microsoft is fucking delusional if they can get a billion daily users for any game.

Subway surfers have over three billion installs just from the play version I've seen somewhere. That said that means devices not daily active users but still it's an insane number compared to console and PC.

What if... Your computer is an Xbox and your mobile is an Xbox

Boom. Nailed it

That sounds decently probable, that could very well be a good thing for everyone, after the apocalypse is over anyway

Well, they were sorta right? It was allegedly Luigi, and it wasn't a hooker either...

Hmm, weird bot.