This hole Microsoft is digging with Game Pass just seems to keep getting bigger:
Report: Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 On Game Pass Cost Microsoft $300 Million In Lost Sales
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Woohooo Xbox! 
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A solid reminder that it’s best never to be a fan of a company.
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Me, who loves SEGA:
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I just think brands are never our friends, they are never really for the user/public. They’ll fuck us over any chance they get to make money.
This is potentially going to make it harder for small devs looking to develop for consoles to consider Xbox as an option to develop for:
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Maybe that means they’ll treat everyone to premium wood veneer and a pure, finest quality Naugahyde finish! Only the best from everyone’s pal Phil Spencer 
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Schreier included a gift link in that post for those who want to read the full article.
In the past, game makers at Xbox weren’t asked to hit specific numerical targets, said the people, and were largely told to focus on making the best games possible without worrying too much about finances. The new target was implemented in fall 2023 by Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, whose team has taken a larger role in the gaming business in recent years.
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The problem is that AI doesn’t generate any revenue, so everything else needs to generate revenue to make up for it. This allows them to continue pretending that AI isn’t a money pit with no return on investment.
No matter how much money is made from games, Game Pass, Xbox, hardware, Office, Windows, etc., it will never be enough to feed the AI void. They know that, yet they still go ahead with it. They know it, yet they continue anyway, for reasons I can no longer fathom.
One day, AI will bring in billions, save the world and cure cancer – it’s like a gambling addict who’s sure that one more spin of the wheel will win them everything back. I did not think that an entire industry could act like an addict, but that’s exactly what’s happening here.
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All evidence points to the fact that the entire revenue structure of AI is based on companies like NVIDIA selling compute power to companies like META, OpenAI, Google and MS, and those four companies selling AI software back to companies like NVIDIA. It’s one giant insular bubble completely fuelled by VC and Private Equity money, and it will all burst. All signs point to a burst soon, especially since OpenAI and the like are trying to earn advertising dollars off their AI platforms by convincing users to engage with things like their AI web browser and search engine and to consume random content from Sora, all of which OpenAI wants to support via advertising. Which basically means they are just trying to get in on the ad revenue search and social media game, making them just another player in the already oversaturated cycle of forcing unwanted media on people and earning ad revenue off it that we are complete sick of anyway.
Oh and about Private Equity, which is backing all of these shenanigans:
‘Crazy, Right?’: More PE Funds Than McDonald’s Signals Pressure
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i am unsure what started this ai bubble talk in this thread but agree with what you’ve said and what @Nelemania said as well. Seeing how the people IN the industry talk about existing technology and the assumptions made with linear progression made me start rethinking where this was going and what to expect of it… the thought of an AGI is scary but the reality that this could create the biggest downturn in our lives our children and probably grandchildren that could take decades to get out of is pretty scary too (and seems increasingly real the more I read and look at what is going on) A perceived transformative boom related to technology that aided trade often has been the prelude to a big crash. it happened with railroads, then the telegraph, automated portfolio protection (which were prototype options that people at the time didnt really understand) then the internet… it’s interesting how nobody learns and it just keeps happening every now and then and the same tools keep getting used. Then when the next ‘tool’ comes out, boom, happens again and everyone acts surprised. Gee, wonder what ways this tool is being used right now?
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I don’t think any three words have ever articulated the idea that we are at the end of a significant era better than Halo on PlayStation. Whether someone thinks this good or bad, it’s definitely not something I think anyone thought would be possible even a year or two ago.
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Huge Xbox Report Details ‘Ambitious’ Next-Gen Console With Free Online Play
…the report says that the next Xbox will essentially be a PC with the Xbox Full Screen Experience; much like ROG Xbox Ally but in home console form. It will apparently “feel like a traditional Xbox console out of the box” though, and users will have the option to stay within an ‘Xbox ecosystem’ that will feel very similar to Series X and S. The option will then be there to open things up and access other storefronts and Windows features if you so choose.
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Sounds like X-Box deleted itself. There is no reason to buy an X-Box or Microsoft Product.
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So I bought my wife a laptop and its windows unfortunately. Thats what she’s used to but the amount of bloat that Microsoft has added is disgusting.
She was trying to print something using edge and it wasn’t until I downloaded Chrome that it printed.
I set chrome as the default browser but edge sneaks its way into opening links and garbage. I need to spend tomorrow rehabing a brand new laptop because Microsoft turned it into a shit storm.
Thanks for listening to my vent!
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People Make Games put together a thoughtful video on the topic of the MS boycott.
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