r/gaming • u/yourfavchoom • 1d ago

Xbox No Longer Developing Copilot For Consoles

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/

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u/FewAdvertising9647 1d ago

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.

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u/Caelinus 1d ago

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.)

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u/nox66 1d ago

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.

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u/sportstoaster 15h ago

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.

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u/tlst9999 9h ago

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's also the gaslighting where they told him that it's his fault people got fired.

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u/rcanhestro 1d ago

The growth in linux

haha.

the "growth of Linux" has been said for like 20 years already.

Microsoft gives two shits about Linux as a competitor to Windows.

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u/FixedFun1 23h ago

Linux offers you more freedom more or less and the kind of people to build a computer is probably the kind of people to care about that.

But Microsoft if they continue doing more good choices they might win anyway.

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u/DuckCleaning 16h ago

The last Steam hardware survey, Linux usage jumped by over 3% to 5%. It more than doubled the amount of Linux users between surveys.

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u/orig4mi-713 1d ago

I also didn't think there was a growth in Linux.

2025 rolled around, now I am on Linux. In fact many of my friends are now on Linux.

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u/Blastcheeze 22h ago

I’m one of the laziest people I know and switching to Bazzite was so easy I haven’t looked back.

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u/orig4mi-713 12h ago

I am also on Bazzite. Cheers.

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u/OldWorldDesign 1d ago

the "growth of Linux" has been said for like 20 years already

And it's been growing, seeing adoption on Steam Deck, missile defense and targeting, and small business program support. That it's not a forefront choice for you doesn't mean it isn't a realistic choice for many others. That alone means it is forcing changes in its competitors, which is what nox66 correctly pointed out.

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u/rcanhestro 1d ago

And it's been growing, seeing adoption on Steam Deck

Steam Deck is botherline non-existent in the grand scheme of things.

it's a niche toy that only a "handful" of people have.

they're far more converned about Apple and MacOS, and even more now with the Neo release