Reason behind the Xbox layoffs isn't gamepass failing or gaming division not generating enough money. It's about replacing developers with AI. Real goal is AI generated video games. Pajeet Nutella and his obsession with AI will kill all Xbox games. It's so over for you if you are/were a fan of an IP Xbox owns.

lol

>>715042543 (OP)
You say this every year.
In what world has firing the shitty devs ever been a negative?
Your evidence points to future XCHAD supremacy.

>>715042543 (OP)
could the layoffs be motivated by economic realities the company, its product and the economy they are in being total dogshit? no, it must be that these magic beans are SO good at making games that the best way to grow the company is to lay off everyone and replace them with a chatgpt wrapper that says "yes you are so brave for saying that" to anyone that prompts it with a question

>>715042804
Xbox generated more money this year than many prior years due to CoD itself alone. Yet they laid of almost 50% of Sledgehammer and Raven. 2 COD companies who still produces anything worth playing. It's not about Xbox division failing. It's about cutting costs(with AI developers).

>>715042804
>hire everyone in the industry possible
>ask for their best ideas
>fire most of them
>Sony now gets access to sloppy seconds
It's just that simple schizo.
This has been the way since the 80s for whatever entity has been making the most money in the field.

>>715042875
i mean if youre targeting to make 0 sales with any of your non-cod products then it does make sense to lay off everyone doing them. but i dont see how it helps to spend money on AI developers that will similarly produce 0 sales. actually i do know, its to befuddle the remaining workers and to appease the investors

I don't understand why microsoft is suddenly 10 times less competent than they were 20 years ago

>>715042959
You have Twitter LARP shitposts to found your understanding of an entire industry on and seem fine with it.
KYS LOL

>>715043037
its almost lunchtime bro go get some of that naan

>>715042543 (OP)
>cooked
fr fr bish no cap on a stack, philly must be crashing out rn
xbox aura farming is so joever

>>715042543 (OP)
xbox has been dead. just ignore it

>>715042718
>that cringe ass OC
next time use a wojak, faggot

>Halo was originally going to be a Mac exclusive. Steve Jobs introduced the game at MacWorld 1999.
>Bungie sold themselves and Halo in 2000
>Bungie release Halo 1 and Halo 2 for OG Xbox
>Max Hoberman established Xbox Live, SBMM, 1-50 ranking system, online multiplayer on consoles, online Halo state tracking on Bungie.net
>After Halo 2, Bungie now want to leave Microsoft, works up a deal where they fill 3 buckets
>Bucket 1: Halo 3
>Bucket 2: Halo Movie
>Bucket 3: Halo 4
>Halo Movie is scrapped, ODST is compensated (8 month development)
>Halo 4 is scrapped, Reach is compensated
>Bungie leaves in 2010/2011
>MS creates 343 to create Halo content in 2008/2009/2010
>MS/343 outsource Halo Anniversary to Saber, Saber got the contract to develop Halo Anniversary because its CEO 'offered to do it for free' lol
>343 gave Halo PC's Gearbox code base, and not Halo XBox's code base, to Saber
>343 doesn't know how to use Bungie's Halo engine, only the original Bungie devs knew, Marty told 343 that nobody at Bungie would help them lol
>Frank O'Connor retcons Joe Staten's lore and mythos (Humans = Forerunners)
>Halo 4 despised by fans
>Xbox no longer has Halo carrying the console
>Xbox One announcement is a complete flop and permanently damaged the brand
>Halo MCC was marketed as a love letter for the fans, having H1/H2/H3/H4 on one console, 1080p 60fps with all maps, but completely busted on release
>H1 MCC and H2 MCC based on broken PC port codebase and not the original Xbox codebase
>Halo 5 releases, and if Halo 4 didn't kill the franchise, Halo 5 buried it
>Tom French managed to salvage Halo 5's multiplayer, never got a W11 port
>Halo MCC ported to Windows 10, 343 hires Halo MODDER Sean Cooper (kornman00) to fix the broken port from Jan 2018 - Dec 2023
>Infinite and Series X marketed as a return to Xbox's origins
>Infinite is delayed, released, promised a 10 year plan and is a complete flop
>343 renamed to Halo Studios and is remaking CE in UE5

This is where you are now

>>715042543 (OP)
What the fuck is an AI agent? Do you use your brain before you read this kind of bullshit and accept it as fact?

>>715043008
'don't' or 'don't want to' understand?

>>715042543 (OP)
>micro$oft anything in 2025
LMAO, m$ ended with Windows 7 and the Xbox 360, anything else after that is goyslop for normalcattle. With microsoft you don't own anything, you will play shitty games with niggers in them, you will use an operating system with AI and poorly coded structure, you will own nothing and you will be happy.

>>715042718
Adorable deviantart OC, much better than wojak

>>715043367
well they don't wanna say like "we prompt AI for some of the things we do now" so instead they say "i tasked an AI Agent to read my email for me" to evoke the idea that it's a sort of a person working there. and they can then extend that parable, and say stuff like "we laid off 2000 people but to compensate we have added 2000 new AI Agents for our Xbox division" which kinda sounds like it's like a calculated move to maintain growth more efficiently, but really its all actually bullshit window dressing and means nothing. it's all just them trying to hide their losses in manpower.

it doesn't count as fraud because they aren't lying about the AI replacement stuff, they're only lying about how useful AI actually currently is. however the retarded boomers in charge of the money have been fed a pure corn syrup concoction of AI hype for the past 3 years so they generally believe AI really can replace everyone, and they don't get worried or pull their money. we live in a boomer scam based economy right now, which is the natural consequence of when your average boomer net worth is 1.6mil and average millenial net worth is 127k

>>715042718
You know that's a pro tranny meme, right?

>>715043008
They had one sucessful console generation, they got lucky with the 360

>>715044331
xbox 360 did well but they had the RRoD repair shit that cost them 1.15bil, and that was pre-2009 so that was actually a lot of money back then. i wonder if that fiasco wiped out the xbox brand internally for them somehow

>>715042543 (OP)
ai just keeps getting better and better
its a safe bet

>>715042543 (OP)
how come 343 hasn't made a halo game in 15 years when that's literally their only fucking job, anyway

how fucking embarrassing is it that xbox can't ship a single game for their flagship IP, to the point that most zoomers haven't even heard of it. It's basically just a retro game series

>>715044713
>GPT 4.5 having a lower score than o3 but a significant margin while costing 2-3x more

How can that be

microsoft is the shittiest company ever, race to the bottom in terms of quality, always

>>715044892
MS outsourced Halo PC to Gearbox

MS outsourced Halo 2 Vista to Hired Gun (the whole "In Gravemind Legendary, you die as soon as the level starts" thing was introduced in Halo 2 Vista)

343 outsourced CEA and H2A to Saber Interactive for FREE using the inferior PC ports as the base and Sean Cooper spent 5 years fixing the broken ports

343 outsourced terminals in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary to Sequence

343 outsourced Reach DLC maps (Defiant Map Pack/Anniversary Map Pack) and Halo 4 DLC maps to Max Hoberman and Certain Affinity (multiplayer, online, and UX design lead for Halo 2 and Halo 3)

Halo 4 campaign just feels half-baked. It has sections that feel empty, lacking content. Removed point scoring. As a result, the timer was also removed(used for speed runs). You can't view the campaign terminals ingame; you must go to waypoint. Forge Island gives us ten times less budget than Forge World. Removed Race, Territories, Stockpile, Headhunter, and Juggernaut. “Infinity” gametypes include instant respawn, perk packages and customized loadouts (COD). "Legendary" gametypes fixed this.

Halo 4 and part of Halo 5 are the only game 343i actually put together themselves with their in house studio, MCC and especially infinite has been nothing but wrangling contractors and contract studios. Infinite has something like 5 confirmed studios that worked on it. That is why their dev cycle takes so long and fucks shit up constantly(besides the technical debt). 343 is just an umbrella studio that directors other contract studios into making broken messes of games. Its why everything except Halo 4 is a broken retarded mess because Halo 4 was the only 343i title actually done in house and not through 20 corporate suit games of telephone and Zoom meetings

343 has an OG Xbox emulator for Series X and CE and H2 still aren't on it

MCC was outsourced
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gpklokblI006QYtGlxUeds747lPZD_JSph56qLJqzhw

>>715044713
>ai just keeps getting better and better
You are aware AI is costing more and more as they get better and better right? AI spends as much energy as a single country in US does in a single day. It's simply unsustainable.

>>715042543 (OP)
Oh my god they're having trouble making a fucking halo 1 remake AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EVERYONE LAUGH LMAOOOOO

>>715045792
who cares
we will simply provide it more power

>>715046389
That's why it will fail though. It's not cost effective compared to regular human workforce.
>>715045838
Yeah, Xbox should've shut down 343 after Halo 5 desu. And made a new studio from scratch.

>>715042543 (OP)
The only thing cooked is my chicken with rice and barbecue sauce. YEAH BUDDY

>>715046479
>That's why it will fail though. It's not cost effective compared to regular human workforce.
>>>715045838
only the training takes lots of power

Good. AI runs circles around nuDevs

>>715045302
What about Infinite

The best AI made games I have seen so far is below old new grounds games. Now I am not saying they won't get better but I think we won't see AI developed AAA games anytime soon or ever unless Microsoft's plan is to lower our standards

>>715047682
>unless Microsoft's plan is to lower our standards
They've been trying for over a decade unsuccessfully.

>>715042543 (OP)
>quality of the product
soulless

Every single major corporation in America is ran by out of touch people who don't know what their own consumers want while trying to fleece as much money as humanly possible out of them. No it wasn't always like this but since COVID it has gotten very bad

xbox never recovered from the xbone reveal

>>715043464
he's being facetious you twat

>>715042543 (OP)
>Aware Microsoft is gunning for your job with AI
>Not just fucking leaving when Sony would happily take you in

Microsoft is right. AI is going to get to the point where an indie team will be producing products that took ubisoft-sized armies of developers to make.

>>715047682
Basically every game is using AI in the development process now. They’re just not disclosing it because it’s a polarizing political subject.

>>715047318
The credits of 1400 employees is 70% Indian.

>>715042543 (OP)
>AI agents
These are support/ customer service roles, not people writing code. Microsoft is shutting down entire divisions, and there's a rumor that there isn't going to be another hardware generation of Xbox. The 2 TB Series X went up an additional $130 the moment the tariffs went into effect, and Microsoft simply can't compete against Playstation & Nintendo with Xboxs that cost $700+.

>>715047682
It'll be like voice and image and video. It'll go from newgrounds to what the fuck this is crazy in no time.

>>715051593
This

The first "good" AI games are going to be basically VNs or CYOAs. The latter is going to be especially notable, because good AI can generate any imagery needed, giving you effectively infinite content.

>>715045792
>You are aware AI is costing more and more as they get better and better right?
false

>>715044207
You know that "You know that's a pro tranny meme, right?" is a pro chud meme, right?

>>715043334

add some context

released halo 4 on xbox 360 instead of waiting a year to make it a system seller for the xbox one.
Halo 4's campaign is good and the multiplayer is basically a clone of Reach.
Fans get angry because it wasn't bungie's turd. halo reach multiplayer poisoned the series
Halo 5's campaign was also good, and had the best multiplayer in the series.
Fans remained angry because Bungie didnt make it. Became more angry because the multiplayer introduced a skill ceiling not present since Halo 2, but now the players were old, washed up, and in denial.
Microsoft tries to bring in old bungie people to help with infinite and create a boring shell of a game. the story is one giant apology tour to the moaning masses that were buttblasted by halo 4 and 5's story.
Halo Infinite's multiplayer threw out all that made 5 great, and reverted to cloning boring and busted halo 3.
Microsoft tried to appeal to fans that never had a valid complaint and basically ruined the series

>>715043008
xbox is basically an embodiment of america
forced, commercialized and soulless

>>715044331
The Xbox hueg was a very solid first entry. They did come in and beat Nintendo and the Dreamcast with their first attempt.

>>715043008
Jew daycare

>>715042543 (OP)
Both humans and indians clearly aren't working out for Microsoft, so it makes sense that they are trying robots next.

>>715051974
Ah I see you have no counterarguments so it's true

>>715054838

>>715042543 (OP)
AI means annoying Indians

>>715044331
>beat sony to market by an entire year
>xbox 360 has a 54.2% failure rate
insane era. i had my original 360 red ring, the replacement red ring, and my xbox 360 elite black red ring the day i brought it home.

>>715043334
it's wild how a studio can make 60 million dollars instead of 61 million dollars and get 100% deleted instantly, but 343 can fail to make a successful game for an entire decade, and somehow still exist to waste many more untold millions on terrible halo games no one will like.

>>715042543 (OP)
>keeps buying studios to cancel games and shut them down
Why do they keep doing this /v/? I don't understand what they're gaining from it.

I wish the world would shun America so it could heal.

>>715052431
What you added isn't context, but the nonsense of a retarded person, you.

>>715042543 (OP)
Microsoft is making all the right moves.
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST FIRE PEOPLE WHEN GAMES FLOP COMMERCIALLY
>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST CANCEL GAMES THAT ARE NEARLY A DECADE IN DEV HELL WITH NO RELEASE DATE IN SIGHT
>NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST TRIM THE FAT BY LAYING OFF EXCESS PEOPLE WHO PROVIDE NO VALUE TO THE COMPANY

>>715043367

Google "AI Agent" you dimwit.

>>715042543 (OP)
>contracting out whole studios to "speed up" the process
Sounds like it just over complicated it. And as far as I know, they were working on making Halo CE in unreal 5.
Im not sure on the scope Halo CE's original development, but it seems kind of crazy that for people 25 years later, they have to contract multiple studios to make something that was already made.

Maybe we really did go to the moon.

>>715042543 (OP)
Didn't they immediately look for H1B pajeets after laying off those people too

Not surprised that an industry filled with nepotistic liberals who cannot make good games are being replaced by the very same technology they have used to make fun of blue collar workers. Everyone who had a brain already knew that the acquisition was going to lead to shit. It happened with Rare years ago and it's happening again.

>>715043008
So does she do any work at any point?

>>715057807
yes. they fired everyone, and were waiting on the 10,000 jeeters to be approved right after trump went from
>deport everyone
to
>deport no one, amnesty for "important" illegals, and import 10 billion jeeters

>>715042804
There's two things:
>microsoft is bad at managing its own companies and they have quite literally messed up every single release since 2019 - except Forza Horizon and MS Flight Simulator 2020 (subsequent 2024 version is broken mess which still hasn't even been fixed)
>Rabid lobbying of AI, Nutella thinks he can replace everything with AI - this in fact tells more about the competence crisis and the fact how many useless people they have been employing for decades. I'm not talking about some game dev grunt here.

holy cope

>>715043008
>Fabiola
It had to be a fucking brazillian

>>715042543 (OP)
only 5 employees? Why not more?

Microsoft's somehow beaten becoming the next IBM, and is now just becoming a dinosaur clinging to Azure + Office, which will quickly go to shit like Windows has. Seeing as LinkedIn will become their 3rd most profitable outgoing, my guess is that Nadella saw Xbox's desire for acquiring studios, noticed that his acquisitions (apart from Xamarin) were a success and wanted to pull off another Minecraft.
>>715058270
Yep, Nadella genuinely believes in the AI shit. He's written about it in his book before about it being a massive aspect for Microsoft's future. Which either exposes that CompSci degree he got as worthless or he's more MBA than MSc.
The thing that genuinely astounds me is how many MSc, MBAs (bachelors to an extent) believe the AI hype shit. There's no way you didn't take a class on this, especially anyone graduating now.

>>715052431
seething 343 shill
no one's being convinced

>>715042543 (OP)
It's funny how they AZURE AZURE AZURE'd when AWS was hot (PSO2's servers continue to run like dogshit seven years on, and that's on Azure), and now are in AI AI AI!!!!

PooDolla has no fucking idea of what he wants MS to be. At least Ballmer (DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS) understood what he wanted even if what he wanted (Enterprise corpo) was like 10 years too late.

>>715043790
BASED.

>>715045302
>3 years since the last MCC update
wow, I forgot how awful the MCC KBM controls were.

>>715042543 (OP)
They don't need Shitbox anymore since Gaylo became a tranny game. Also, they don't actually need to be a tech innovator with AI either. The only thing they care about is where other companies are hosting their expensive services, and this will be either AWS or Azure.

>>715043008
All product managers need to be fired. Useless!

>>715044713
>best "AI" scores 16%
so it's fucking retarded

>>715045302
Hey don't forget the H2A graphics cause unavoidable stuttering and framerate drop issues on PC which still hasn't been fixed to this day
Not that anniversary graphics are worth using but normies and new players are going to be using it and thinking "why does this game from 2004 run like dogshit?"

>>715062394
go try and do arc-agi 2 yourself
no human on the planet can score 100%

>>715062394
https://arcprize.org/play?task=1ae2feb7

oh hey, that one twilight zone episode is becoming real life

>>715063409
>>715063656
learning what this test actually is makes me even less impressed

>>715066931
try it yourself then

>>715052431
>Halo 4's campaign is good and the multiplayer is basically a clone of Reach.
LIAR
I
A
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Halo4 mp is okish at beast, campaign is worse than the halo5 one.


>hating halo reach
oh you are one of those.

>Halo Infinite's multiplayer threw out all that made 5 great, and reverted to cloning boring and busted halo 3.
lying

>Microsoft tried to appeal to fans that never had a valid complaint and basically ruined the series
DOUBLE lying

>>715042543 (OP)
I think Microsoft did a great job with the Xbox brand except for the XB1 reveal. They fixed that as best as they could and added a lot of value with BC and gamepass and trying to get rid of the notion of console generations despite Sony and EA not wanting to. I think the Series consoles are stupidly named but were better than what Sony put out. When they bought all those studios, I’m not sure what they were thinking but it didn’t have an effect. Everybody went with the Sony console despite it being inferior. Unlike in prior eras people are too invested in the ecosystem and the brand name to switch. And speaking of switch, in the end it doesnt matter because Nintendo “won” by not even competing. Xbox is dead now and I would say they should focus on software and PC hardware and try to make Sony look like the odd one out until Sony also becomes a PC. But firing everybody and hiring h1b garbage from that shithole subcontinent is a one way ticket to irrelevance and failure in every single aspect. Indian “engineers” and “programmers” are the grim reaper of everything

> Microsoft told us they will outsource work to studios in India.
> The reason must be AI and climate change.

>>715050000
AI is good at certain time-consuming tasks, but it's not smart. Remember, it can't beat pokemon (a task that most 8-year-olds can accomplish).

>>715042804
Microsoft's market cap is $3.7 trillion.
That's more than the yearly GDP of France.