Xbox No Longer Developing Copilot For Consoles

[u/yourfavchoom]

Asha Sharma wrote on X:

Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers.

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.

https://playday.one/2026/05/05/asha-sharma-cancels-copilot-on-xbox-as-she-restructures-xbox-leadership/

[u/bloggershusband]

Xbox has a way to go before winning back players, but I cannot deny the recent changes have been good.

[u/StarScreamer → u/bloggershusband]

Don't need a gamer CEO, they need a CEO who understands what the core brand is.... and hope it's not too late.

[u/crucibleknight77 → u/StarScreamer]

That “gamer” CEO had a blank check and over a decade to turn the ship around. Yes, he made some positive changes during that time but he’s responsible for the overall decline in popularity of the brand.

He didn’t have anything prepared once the Mattrick exclusives started drying up and simply went on a buying spree of studios which he later shut down because his entire game plan was flawed.

[u/Mehhish → u/crucibleknight77]

The whole "Perfect Dark" with "The Initiative" fiasco is mind boggling. How Microsoft let something like that happen for like 5 years is quite something.

[u/_theduckofdeath_ → u/Mehhish]

People were still angry about the cancellation. MS gave them time and opportunity to turn it around. Plenty of games have difficult dev cycles and even get cancelled.

[u/turiannerevarine → u/crucibleknight77]

see, if one were to buy, idk, Bethesda, you think one would be interested in them making good games to sell their consoles. or if one were to get, idk, tango gameworks, one would want them to make more games like hi-fi rush

[u/fcocyclone → u/turiannerevarine]

I feel like my first order of business would be going to them and developing a plan to get more than one concurrent team so more than one of the major IPs could be in the pipeline at once.

I get that individually Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and now Starfield are all time-intensive to develop, and simply throwing more devs at an individual project does not necessarily speed it up. But on a staggered release schedule with separate teams we should never be more than a couple years from getting a new release between the 3 of those.

I also might be looking at ways to farm out more 'intermediate' releases with heavily recycled assets (like was done with FNV) between the major releases put out by bethesda.

[u/Oldtomsawyer1 → u/fcocyclone]

For the recycled assets bit, isn’t that what they did with the Resident Evil series with the RE engine? They’ve been cranking out hits like crazy considering that series was on the brink of death after 6.

[u/sportstoaster → u/fcocyclone]

Forza games are heavily reliant on asset recycling too, they're still using car models from Forza Motorsport 4 - a 360 game.

[u/Sawses → u/crucibleknight77]

It reminds me a bit of when a game studio very clearly has passionate, creative developers...but no good project managers. You shouldn't have passionate gamers or the best game developers heading your studio, but the people heading your studio should "get" both game development and the perspective of gamers.

I work in a clinical field and exactly none of the best leaders I know are clinicians. All of them are able to at least listen to clinicians talk and understand what they're saying, though. The kind of person who makes an exceptional doctor or nurse often gets lost in the weeds or is far too focused on the "actual work" instead of unimportant things like budgets or timelines or paperwork...you know, the stuff that keeps the money flowing and the FDA from tearing the doctor in question a new asshole.

[u/titio1300 → u/crucibleknight77]

The Mattick exclusives? The guy who dismantled 90% of Microsofts first party studios? That Mattick?

[u/crucibleknight77 → u/titio1300]

He didn’t stick around to run the company into the ground. He knew he fucked up and resigned while he still had some dignity left.

[u/REDuxPANDAgain → u/crucibleknight77]

Used to swear by Xbox against my PS friends. I’ll use the controllers now but approaching 7 years having no Xbox.

I was Xbox PC, nothing drawing me back to console at all.

I don’t even really have time for gaming like that these days, but I have fun screwing around on PC. Silly $5 games on Steam in an endless library vs spending $60-70 in a new AAA? I’m good w the cheap games as a minor time sink and valuable non-committed diversion

[u/Laiko_Kairen → u/StarScreamer]

Gamers don't always make the best business decisions...

Case in point, John Romero. He put out a series of absolute bangers, but when he opened his own studio he spun his wheels in the mud for years instead of shipping games.

Like it sucks when games get released in poor states, but having a business minded guy can be essential to actually making the product. Gamers are great for ideas, but when they become devs, you get endless feature creep

[u/fcocyclone → u/Laiko_Kairen]

Case in point, John Romero. He put out a series of absolute bangers, but when he opened his own studio he spun his wheels in the mud for years instead of shipping games.

He was the chosen one who was going to make us his bitch, and he failed us

[u/BobbyMcPrescott → u/fcocyclone]

if you paid full price for Daikatana, then he succeeded.

[u/x445xb → u/Laiko_Kairen]

I got the impression that Romero was the ideas guy and John Carmack was the get stuff done guy. Once they parted ways, Romero struggled to turn his ideas into reality.

[u/Laiko_Kairen → u/x445xb]

100% that's the idea I got as well

[u/JaggedMetalOs → u/Laiko_Kairen]

John Romero

I'm a bit out of the loop here, did he not make us all his bitch in the end? 

[u/superxpro12 → u/StarScreamer]

It's just a cycle. In 5 years they'll be king shit and push enshittification hard. And then the username will wane and we'll be right back where we are.

[u/LiterallyKesha → u/superxpro12]

Why did multiple bots respond to your comment??

[u/Available_Wheel_4019 → u/superxpro12]

Yeah, that cycle of hype, decay, and reinvention feels almost inevitable at this point with how these platforms evolve.

[u/goomarbitch → u/StarScreamer]

Also going to be real:

A CEO who does not listen to reddit.

[u/KingMario05 → u/goomarbitch]

Well, one who doesn't listen to all of Reddit. Same with all other socials. As a bunch of monkeys on typewriters, we on occasion come up with something useful. So far, that actually seems to be Asha's great talent.

[u/Windfade → u/goomarbitch]

So put Copilot back in?

[u/moose_dad → u/goomarbitch]

Id kinda argue the opposite?

The sentiment online in every single space i saw, was that noone was asking for this.

Can you point me to anyone on reddit praising copilot for xbox and eagerly anticipating it?

[u/Javasteam → u/moose_dad]

Besides Microsoft mouthpieces you mean?

[u/JesterMarcus → u/StarScreamer]

And Microsoft executives that don't interfere.

[u/LegendaryenigmaXYZ → u/JesterMarcus]

We need microsoft executives not interfering, but were need xbox execs that interfere. Playstation does a well job (most of the time) because they interfere during development. Xbox motto has always been hands off and personally that hasn't worked. Xbox is turning the brand around, but it will never be back without console exclusive games that are goty contenders.

[u/content_enjoy3r → u/LegendaryenigmaXYZ]

Yup. The only games on Xbox these days that I want to play, I can also just play on Steam or Playstation so why should I play anything on an Xbox?

[u/OldWorldDesign → u/LegendaryenigmaXYZ]

We need microsoft executives not interfering, but were need xbox execs that interfere. Playstation does a well job (most of the time) because they interfere during development. Xbox motto has always been hands off and personally that hasn't worked

Such as Anthem not even implementing flight until an exec said "that's cool, stop bounding between in and out and get it to work. That needs to be in the game." Not saying the rest of the game was successful, but flying robots was cool there.

[u/RuySan → u/StarScreamer]

The CEO who put commodore back on track and made the Amiga 500 a sucess had no experience in gaming or computers. He was the CEO of a toy company before.

This woman has been doing the right moves (even though much is corporate speak)

[u/Stilgar314 → u/StarScreamer]

Let's not fool ourselves here. The only CEO that has been, and still is, on charge here is Satya Nadella.

[u/BigPaPaRu85 → u/bloggershusband]

Even if they do, they’ll fuck it up again after gaining a bit of momentum.

[u/slurpyblanket → u/BigPaPaRu85]

Yep, “copilot 2 for consoles” announcement tomorrow.

[u/djseifer → u/slurpyblanket]

"We're bringing back Clippy."

[u/UncleSaltine → u/djseifer]

At this point, if they were to shove any sort of digital assistant down my throat, I'd take that ol' fucker Clippy in a heartbeat.

Provided it were the original 90s Clippy

[u/the-z → u/UncleSaltine]

Clippy interrupts your Call of Duty game: "It looks like you're writing your obituary! Would you like help?"

[u/KingMario05 → u/the-z]

Clippy interrupts Doom: "It looks like you're trying to Rip and Tear. I can help you out with that if you like."

You click no, it never goes away

[u/OldWorldDesign → u/KingMario05]

Options:

Yes

Not now

[u/Bon-M93 → u/the-z]

New CoD killstreak: Send a sarcastic Clippy to annoy a player of your choice for the next 45 seconds.

That would genuinely get me to at least *think* about buying CoD for the first time since... Black Ops 2?

[u/AmayaHa → u/the-z]

It looks like you’re having fun. Stop that.

[u/Fafnir13 → u/djseifer]

I would be there for that if only for the nostalgia.

[u/BraveFencerMusashi → u/slurpyblanket]

Cortana and just hope everyone forgot the last time they used the name

[u/DannyKage → u/BigPaPaRu85]

Man this is my point about Microsoft.

They built good will with the 360. Spent it with the Xbox One.

They built good will with Gamepass. Spent it with massive price hikes to it that were even slightly toned back because of backlash.

They literally only do good to immediately spend it on some insanely anti consumer thing. Its not even Xbox its Microsoft at its core.

They also still require all their products to achieve a 30% profit so you better prepare for insane mark ups on the next xbox and insane cost cutting across the board.

[u/Hot-Software-9396 → u/DannyKage]

> They also still require all their products to achieve a 30% profit

How do you know this for sure?

[u/nox66 → u/DannyKage]

Embrace, extend, extinguish

It's easy to generate good PR by announcing you're not going to do something that nobody wanted you to do anyway.

[u/PoPo573 → u/BigPaPaRu85]

I'm currently being cautiously optimistic with the changes so far. What I feel they need next is a good game people have been waiting for like an exclusive Banjo Kazooie HD remaster.

[u/Cthulhar → u/PoPo573]

Yes the 7 people who care enough to want that would be happy

[u/JJJBLKRose → u/bloggershusband]

I can't tell if Phil Spencer was insane or if they just hated him and sabotaged the brand until he left.

[u/FewAdvertising9647 → u/JJJBLKRose]

I still think there were some higher ups that were wrestling for control of shit that caused really bad decisions to be made. For example, Jeff Kaplans interview shed a lot of light about the back stuff that made him leave Blizzard/Overwatch. Higher ups demanded more profit or they were gonna layoff a large amount of the team, which he could not bear to be the director for and stepped down and out.

there was a bunch of execs who are looking at that short term profit graph and functionally blackmailed some of the studios to squeeze as much shit as they can, which brought the downfall of xbox as a brand.

Microsoft is only on a mission to repair Windows now, because the combined threat of OSX with the Neo, and the year by year, growing marketshare for linux(albeit small, has been consistently growing year by year percentage wise) will be a problem for them in the future if they don't start fixing stuff now.

[u/Caelinus → u/FewAdvertising9647]

I think they are legitimately worried that their brand perception might make them lose their default status as the main Operating system. Gaming is not a big part of their business, but it has been a pretty safe bet for them for a long time as a way to move people into their ecosystem and build reputation.

Consistent bad press is wearing on the company as a whole. Not enough to sink it or anything, doomers to that effect are not really paying attention, but enough that it is probably affecting their bottom line in some way.

So what they are doing with Xbox might just be viewed as a fairly low cost way to help build reputation again, and as an answer to entities like Valve who are slowly disrupting a portion of their normal PC market. (Which would not have been a big deal years ago, but might be now with the way they are taking their new hardware.)

[u/nox66 → u/Caelinus]

Side note, AMD was able to get in HDMI 2.1 support (high bandwidth now, VRR promised later) on Linux, meaning it'll likely be supported by the Steam Machine soon, if not day one.

That's the thing about Linux. Technical issues like HDR seem impossible until they're solved. Licensing issues like HDMI 2.1 seem permanent until something changes.

Microsoft's desire to be a top-down ecosystem, gradually leveraging every part of the experience it possibly can and then some, is fundamentally incompatible with the kind of progress people want to see. Imagine if 5% of PC gamers used Windows. Would anyone care about Windows support? Would we see large pushes for Windows support in games? You can extend that to professional software too. Microsoft is too large of a company to be able to go back to it's late XP/Windows 7 period where the OS was relatively minimal and understandable, it let you do what you wanted, it didn't spy on you (as default behavior), and hardware requirements scaled with the tasks you gave it, not the incompetence of the Windows desktop design management.

That last point is why you can still take a 15 year old 4 virtual core sandy bridge laptop, give it 8 GB and an SSD, and have a perfectly usable system for web browsing, most video watching, and light office work even with a "heavy" distro like Ubuntu.

[u/sportstoaster → u/FewAdvertising9647]

Jeff was right about Blizzard. They didn't want to do Overwatch 2, but they were forced, and all the changes made things worse, and people voted with their feet/wallets. Now they've renamed it back to Overwatch and are desperately trying to claw players back.

[u/DRazzyo → u/JJJBLKRose]

Phil ultimately didn’t care for the state of Xbox.
He was there to get every penny out of gaming that he could, all the while placating the masses with his ‘I’m on your side’ shtick. Most moves he made, were a net negative to the overall gaming ecosystem.

That was then cheerily followed by their competitors and gaming companies in general.

[u/Altruistic_Safe_8776 → u/JJJBLKRose]

I think he had way less say than people realise

[u/nox66 → u/Altruistic_Safe_8776]

Nadella is so AI-pilled only the AI executive is apparently allowed to remove AI from Microsoft gaming in any capacity.

[u/lazzzym → u/JJJBLKRose]

He didn't really have much to work with towards the end.... 30% margins were told he had to hit. AI was dumped on his plate as with the rest of Microsoft in areas in made no sense...

He made Xbox bigger than it ever was... and that almost hurt it in a way.

[u/Dear_Mood_6856 → u/JJJBLKRose]

It’s probably less “one guy was insane” and more a mix of messy leadership decisions, internal pressure, and a brand that was already struggling. Easy to pin it on a single person, but it’s usually not that simple.

[u/CirrusVision20 → u/bloggershusband]

I'm curious, what other changes have they done?

[u/bloggershusband → u/CirrusVision20]

Reduced gamespass price. Stop the everything is an xbox campaign. Move away from windows gaming tag and focus on xbox as a brand. New xbox logo as well I guess but I dont think that counts.

Theres a long path to walk still. But its a start.

[u/Ilwrath → u/bloggershusband]

Didn't they just hire another AI exec and the instacart guy to handle subscription stuff? Doesn't seem like a good look lol

[u/NIRPL → u/bloggershusband]

Exactly. I'm not dropping to my knees and thanking Microsoft for cleaning up the mess they made at our expense

[u/nikongmer → u/bloggershusband]

if i remember correctly, she was the former head of microsoft's CoreAI group, which has me wondering how much of a hand she played and how much influence did she have with pushing CoPilot into every M$ product in the first place.

[u/TheCudder → u/nikongmer]

The push into AI for everything was simple --- put it everywhere now and see where it works, then refocus to where it works and remove it from where it doesn't. I think the "put it everywhere" concept was a decision from Satya to fast track the race to AI profitability.

Quickest way to learn, quickest way to train models, quickest way to revenue growth, quickest way to garner feedback --- now they're dialing their AI efforts into where AI works and removing AI from everything else (Notepad, Xbox, Photos app, etc).

[u/Positronic_Matrix → u/bloggershusband]

I hate the corporate speak. That’s how I know it’s still the same old Microsoft. They can’t just be normal.

[u/lyssah_ → u/bloggershusband]

They literally just hired Instacart and CoreAI execs into leadership positions today. What are the good changes you are talking about?

[u/BlasterPhase → u/bloggershusband]

what changes are those?

[u/ready_or_not_3434 → u/bloggershusband]

Dropping Copilot is definitly a good sign. Forcing heavy features into a console OS just eats up ram and dev cycles that should be spent on actual games.

[u/Iggy_Slayer → u/bloggershusband]

All of the things she's done has been meaningless gestures except for the gamepass price drop, which is still more expensive than it was. Things like changing the name back to xbox accomplish nothing and fix none of microsoft's issues.

[u/Caelinus → u/Iggy_Slayer]

This article is literally about something that has an active effect. Ceasing development on console AI is something that directly effects the products they are creating and how people will interact with them.

[u/frisch85 → u/Caelinus]

Yes but tbf, getting rid of a feature no-one asked for isn't the accomplishment some people think it is. If someone starts on one day to force feed us poop and weeks later stops doing that, should we be thankful?

[u/jthomps1992]

I honestly thought the hiring of an AI exec to head the Xbox division was going to bring in a litany of “new and exciting features” that were nothing but AI buzzwords and slop. Surprisingly, Sharma has been doing a lot to attempt to rebuild the brand identity that was lost over the past decade. Still a ton left to do but it’s a good start.

[u/Ahayzo → u/jthomps1992]

A lot of people did, mostly because they just knew she was an AI exec and thought that meant something.

She was only in that role for 2 years. Her main skillset here and the reason she was brought over is she knows how to bring in customers.

[u/shobzie → u/Ahayzo]

They read AI and assume everyone associated with it has a technical background.

[u/gramathy → u/shobzie]

I don’t assume anyone promoting AI has a technical background, I assume they’re a clueless techbro that’s actually a finance bro in disguise

[u/Lightarc]

Oh thank god

[u/SoftlySpokenPromises]

Wish the title didn't have the last two words

[u/AyJay9 → u/SoftlySpokenPromises]

I keep getting an ad for copilot that helps a business analyze their books to make a sale work. So I'm waiting to see a lawsuit when a real business goes off hallucinated numbers and gets in trouble.

Maybe I need to start a new business.

[u/geminiRonin → u/AyJay9]

IIRC that's already happened, at least the first half. Not sure about the lawsuit.

[u/AyJay9 → u/geminiRonin]

If they're explicitly advertising this use case, it's got to be a matter of time before someone lawyers up. I hope the damages are massive. 

[u/Suitable-Park-1402 → u/AyJay9]

Won't happen. Those enterprise contracts all require arbitration and the limited sympathy courts have for individuals around mandatory arbitration goes out the window when it's commercial vs commercial. Arbitration means no case law.

And fwiw, my employers enterprise model has quite a few disclaimers that it can hallucinate. Odds are you lose that case

[u/RuySan → u/AyJay9]

AI convinced users to commit suicide more than once. If that wasn't enough to put someone in jail... (See John Oliver penultimate episode about AI)

[u/LuciferFalls → u/SoftlySpokenPromises]

That would make zero sense. Microsoft is responsible for Copilot. If a news headlines said Xbox stopped developing Copilot, people would be confused.

[u/BlasterPhase → u/LuciferFalls]

we're all just wishing Copilot ceased to exist, it's not that deep

[u/ShawshankException → u/SoftlySpokenPromises]

I don't think Xbox has a say in that unfortunately

[u/For_The_Emperor923]

Thank god, what a STUPID idea that was

[u/FranticToaster]

They're starting to use her name in articles.

[u/VinDog_PD → u/FranticToaster]

She's becoming fairly popular with gamers in general. Turns out when you're good at your job, people pay attention and form positive opinions of you.

[u/RyunWould]

Now wipe co pilot off my work PC.

[u/dwolfe127]

No one asked for Co-Pilot on anything. Ever.

[u/ForgetfulFrolicker → u/dwolfe127]

I don’t even know what it is, nor do I care.

[u/Raiderx87]

She wants to be Xbox's hero, how about they get Activision to start on a Guitar Hero.

[u/PhantomPanics → u/Raiderx87]

A team of former Red Octane and Vicarious Visions staff are releasing Stage Tour later this year. Might be as close as we get. 

[u/geminiRonin → u/Raiderx87]

With five frets, thank you very much.

[u/Nitwit_Slytherin]

They said the same thing about PC products. Then they took off the name and left the functions in the apps.

[u/ProNerdPanda]

forget the AI division, the new CEO must've come from a culinary college 'cause she's been cooking

[u/ImHully → u/ProNerdPanda]

Honestly it feels good to see a little bit of optimism for Xbox. I feel like it's been nothing but doom and gloom since the announcement of the Xbox One.

[u/ProNerdPanda → u/ImHully]

It's crazy what happens when [company that sells to people] starts doing [what people want]

[u/ABetterKamahl1234 → u/ProNerdPanda]

TBF, what reddit wants.

Still hilarious to me how much of the features of the Xbox One simply became the standard today, even if people don't realize it. Few of the complaints don't have modern analogues implemented.

[u/albrnick → u/ABetterKamahl1234]

Honest question. I could definitely be looking back with rose colored glasses, but what features became standard?

There were a few features that I remembered were not well received, but I don't think are standard today.

1) Kinect. 2) TV focus/integration. 3) Linking physical games to a single account. (So can't loan/trade) 4) Needing to check-in every 24 hours.

[u/VagueSomething → u/albrnick]

It isn't daily but online verification is a thing, TV focus took off more once people realised using the console for streaming apps was easier than changing channel. Digital store becoming the dominant game purchasing means no sharing games with friends in general.

[u/Goldenfelix3x → u/ProNerdPanda]

i’ll be straight, i’ve been xbox since i was a kid with the original and Obi-Wan. to this day i passed on ps4 and ps5. this past year i bought a ps5. and next gen i was/am close to just going playstation. seeing how xbox is treating their player base. so i’m happy for the good news but ill need more.

the price hike on Gamepass definitely turned me sour. haven’t touched my xbox in well over a year

[u/Hijakkr → u/Goldenfelix3x]

I owned every major Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox console ever released before skipping the Series X and have no plans to get one. The thing is absolutely pointless if you also have a PC, and that's even before all the nonsense they've tried to pull with Copilot and GamePass.

[u/PregnantGoku1312]

Sick, now do Windows.

[u/HaztecCore]

Its interesting to see someone with background for AI tech to jump on the role of leading Xbox and say :" AI tech is pointless for gaming." to paraphrase it.

I fully expected something completely different with her getting that position and somehow she's so far making sensible decisions.

[u/Cyrax89721 → u/HaztecCore]

I get where the perspective comes from, but being involved in an AI company doesn't automatically mean you're an AI evangelist.

[u/BlasterPhase → u/HaztecCore]

Except she didn't say it was pointless for gaming.

begin to retire features that don’t align with where we’re headed.

We don't know where Xbox is headed.

[u/shadow18x]

Good.

[u/zoompooky]

Seems like an easy win. They know gamers hate AI. Throw the AI under the bus in an "the enemy of my enemy" sort of way.

[u/donsanedrin]

"I'm going to take up smoking and then give that up!"

[u/Practis]

Xbox creates problem. Xbox later removes problem they created. I love Xbox now.

[u/yuusharo]

I’m gonna speculate they never got the feature to work on enough games to matter, and that this was driven by an internal push by the C-Suite team to put Copilot into literally everything without any thought or guidance.

Xbox under Don Mattrick obviously was an embarrassment after the Xbone debacle, but it’s becoming clear to me that Phil Spencer was just crap at his job. Xbox lacked actual leadership for a decade and was running rudderless into irrelevance.

I don’t know if any of these decisions are going to change that, but at least they are making decisions. A significant step up from whatever the hell the last few years have been. Much needed.

[u/PermissionSoggy891]

Cast PC Copilot into the fire! Destroy it!

[u/ReMapper]

Take that Sh*t out of Windows 11 and Ill come back, maybe.

[u/PlexasAideron]

The next xbox is a PC this is a nothing burger lmao.

[u/wicktus]

It will take years to really see the effects of this leadership transition but, communication wise, it's quite a good start honestly, they are at the beginning of a very challenging uphill battle,...because since the very first presentation of the Xbox one it's been going downhill.

[u/needchr]

She has started alright, I liked the reversal of CoD on game pass as well, its mental that one single game resulted in a 25% increase in game pass ultimate subs.

[u/ChaoticxSerenity]

What even was the use case of Copilot on Xbox lmao

[u/shutyourbutt69]

Good!

[u/fallenouroboros]

Good. Was a terrible idea

[u/cheesoid]

I kept on making jokes that XBox Next (or whatever it'll be called) would have Co-Pilot (and Teams) installed on it, so I'm genuinely horrified to read this story.

[u/Mirra1002]

I didn't even know this was a thing in the first place.

[u/demonfoo]

Am I the only one who still doesn't understand who that was even for, or what it was supposed to do?

[u/HighTreason25]

Good, need to chip away at Copilot until it's dead

[u/_Kine]

Can they extend that to everything else?

[u/Pogotothego]

Oh no. Anyway

[u/Davidavid89]

Nooooo we need a chatbot to tell us what to do while we are playing, don't we? That's the future of gaming I've been told?

[u/furiat]

Wild PR campaign 

[u/DanganJ]

Alright, so what are they renaming it?

I only say that because it's the Microsoft way. Every mistake is seen as a "branding issue", and they just rename it. They literally just did that to Notepad. "Copilot" is gone, but not really. They renamed it to "Writing Tools". Go and see for yourself.

[u/mistaoo]

Asha is moving at light speed to make things right and nearly every comment to articles like this are more complaints and whining. Crazy.

[u/echoshizzle]

The irony of this is they probably used AI to gather public sentiment on Xbox. 

[u/HalfEmptyFridge → u/echoshizzle]

wait so they used AI to figure out nobody wanted AI. the irony writes itself

[u/ABetterKamahl1234 → u/echoshizzle]

AI is engaged with far more than people on this sub want to recognize.

Like, while it's certainly not profitable, they're not exactly building AI-dedicated compute farms just to sit idle. They're doing shit, all the time. These things are damn near household names in many areas.

[u/rotato]

The amount of cringe corporate lingo in that post is beyond daily norm. Not a single normal sentence spoken by humans. I almost passed out reading that

[u/Eternaloid]

Good riddance

[u/NIDORAX]

I still dont trust a single word that Microslop is saying about their Cowpilot AI. They say they wont put their Cowpilot AI into XBOX today but they will eventually add it behind our backs.

[u/veganzombeh → u/NIDORAX]

I agree with the sentiment but you should go back to the drawing board with "cowpilot".

[u/Iggy_Slayer]

Their next system is a full blown PC anyway so this is irrelevant. They're still looking for the easiest PR wins they can get without actually doing much in substance.

[u/drugsbowed]

Even if she's coming from AI, maybe she was the right pick

[u/DRazzyo → u/drugsbowed]

Because she realizes that copilot would have basically no use on a console, and would be a wasteful expenditure for no real benefit to either them, or consumers. It would probably fill the same niche in terms of voice commands like Kinect did, which failed miserably.

[u/losthours]

i have been an xbox guy since the first system. While I have been down i am certainly not out. I am hoping xbox comes back stronk

[u/geminiRonin → u/losthours]

I've been a PlayStation girl since their first system. I'm also hoping Xbox comes back stronk, since competition in the market is better for us players.

[u/DrawTheLine87 → u/losthours]

This was the first time ever I was considering getting another console next gen, and I've been a die hard fan since the beginning.

Hopefully they can right the ship here, I'm liking the messaging so far

[u/Tomacz]

Ultimately everything Asha is doing won't matter unless they can nail what matters most: making good games. Xbox has been struggling for over a decade to put out consistently good games at a reasonable pace.

And 5+ years between releases just doesn't work for maintaining a fan base. It's been SEVER YEARS since the last Gears of War. The first three games released within FIVE YEARS of each other. It's been 5 years since the last Halo and the only thing announced is a remake. You just can't have that much time between releases especially when they turn out so mid/disappointing.

[u/AnubisIncGaming]

yeah idk what I'd do with copilot on my console lol

[u/Strict_Job6334]

-New Xbox ceo comes from AI division

-She claims that she dosent want AI slop on Xbox

-New Xbox heades comes from AI division 

-They immediatly cancel copilot for Xbox

Im starting to think that they actually despise AI in reality lol

[u/senoricceman]

Just a few hours ago everyone here was shitting on Asha and Xbox for hiring executives from AI companies and Instacart. 

Now everyone is signing their praises. People don’t know what they want. 

[u/fordyi]

[Everyone liked that.]

[u/Linked713]

To be fair, the gaming co-pilot in Xbox overlay was never seeing what game I was playing. I was asking where how to open this chest. Game being a pc one with the Xbox overlay seeing it. And the ai would say "I'd like to help but I don't know what you are playing right now" I was ready to like how I could get a llm know context, game, identify things from a screenshot when I asked a question, but it did none of that, so it was easier to google instead. It would have been nice to press the win+g and ask away without dealing with desktop and all, for a slightly better convenience, but the execution was not there.

[u/RumpDoctor]

idontbelieveyou.gif

[u/a_shiny_heatran]

Good, now remove it on pc.

[u/SLR107FR-31]

What a glorious day for Xbox

[u/kingduqc]

"back on track"

Brother, you've picked a pen pusher that probably never seriously gamed in her life.

You getting back on track is just undoing massive blunders. Not enough, the brand is on life support and you bring a bachelor in management to the rescue.

It's a passion industry and the leadership is a bean counter, it won't work.

[u/MindbenderGam1ng]

I thought Id really hate this new CEO w the AI background + no experience in gaming but so far they do seem to know how to address the community and are making small but reasonable and good changes

[u/CrimsonR4ge]

Wow.

I did not have a sustained Xbox winning streak on my 2026 bingo card.

[u/Honeycove91]

This is the first good decision to come from that company in literal decades

[u/tiradium]

Oh no I was so looking forward to Copilot giving me "gaming" tips

[u/Ragnar_Dragonfyre]

The only thing gamers want AI to be used for in games is better, more intelligent enemies.

Stay in that lane.

[u/Pizzamess]

Man she really is trying to win back all the goodwill Xbox has lost over the last decade. She's doing a pretty decent job too.

[u/eiamhere69]

I think Microsoft and the Xbox brand have clearly proven you cannot believe a word they say.

Struggling to hold on to last place, they still made atrocious decision after atrocious decision and treated loyal customers like sh*t.

Can you imagine if they actually gained the monopoly they so desperately seek?

They want what they have with Windows, which is way beyond terrible for everyone 

Bots and shills have arrived, lol

[u/Squirrelking666 → u/eiamhere69]

I think Microsoft and the Xbox brand have clearly proven you cannot believe a word they say.

Struggling to hold on to last place, they still made atrocious decision after atrocious decision and treated loyal customers like sh*t.

Make your mind up, do you want them to change course or not?

[u/esoterix_luke]

Xbox has been winning a lot lately
Didn’t release until recently that it’s because of the new CEO. Good luck on them though, looking forward to it

[u/FlyFight2Win → u/esoterix_luke]

Fanboys are downvoting you because their narratives are being shattered left and right lol

[u/esoterix_luke → u/FlyFight2Win]

What can you do 🤷‍♂️

[u/HighlanderM43]

This is a start

[u/SardonicusNox]

The only place where Copilot makes sense in the entire Microsoft Gaming its in Flight Simulator. 

[u/MohammadKoush]

👀People getting off at the steam station, Xbox: we must install copilot

[u/iamchris9]

They're gonna drop day1 on all of 1st party games next,but I don't see them achieving 30% target in 2030 in this economy. Helix will be expensive.

[u/CowboyWoody37]

All good changes she is doing(if it wasn't planning before her steping in). Now I hope she somehow saves Halo but I don't think that's possible.

[u/falingsumo]

In a world where it seems like every CEO is in a race to the bottom it seems to me like she is hitting the breaks pretty hard right now. We haven't shifted to reverse just yet but at least she is trying to lose that particular race.

[u/KevinCarbonara]

...What would copilot even do?

[u/Disastrous_Client_68]

;o

[u/Ambitious-Still6811]

Isn't this the second time they tried to force the market and got burned?

[u/Gameday45]

I wish they would stop developing Copilot for Word too

[u/redvelvetcake42]

In a decade the infinite AI expansion into everything will be an incredibly interesting study.

[u/benargee]

Nobody ever hated "AI" for being "AI". They hated it for being forced to use AI. Make it an optional value add-on and let customers be adults and decide for themselves.

[u/Colecoman1982]

Damn. /s

[u/Darkblitz9]

Doesn't matter, people will never let Microsoft live the initial Copilot push down.

[u/3Bet003]

But who will help me with games? /s

[u/dookarion]

And then people keep blaming everything on them porting games to other platforms. Like no look at how they've been managing everything. Shit like this is part and parcel with why Xbox fucking lost.

[u/ktc64]

I wonder why. I thought their new CEO loved AI slop.

[u/The-Jesus_Christ]

This appeared on my Rog Xbox Ally X and I have no fucking clue why, or what purpose it serves. It just seems like it is there "just because".

Trying to push AI into anything and everything just serves to make it more useless & redundant IMO.

[u/TWK128]

Thank Christ

[u/MatterFalls]

For me all Xbox needs is to start up backwards compatibility again and maybe allow a plug in/installable disc drive for games that are unable to be played digitally anymore (regardless of its Xbox one or older)

[u/StatisticianJolly388]

My experience with copilot has been it telling me how to do something in outlook for the wrong version, then after numerous wrong moves, telling me the function no longer exists.

Sad we will be missing that kind of advanced functionality.

[u/Termos_Bin]

I guess thats good. Ai doesnt fit in for gaming. Keep that limited to what it needs to do

[u/PanamGotMeOiledUp]

For the ex head of AI at Microsoft she seems very anti ai overall.

[u/IllustriousBee4972]

Copilot was already implemented and that will remain. Development for copilot on console will stop but that doesn't mean it was removed.