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shikamaru317 10 hours ago
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Summary:

  • The "Return to Xbox" she mentioned in her opening letter to the community is about the spirit of the original Xbox design team. A spirit of surprise, rebellion, and renegadism, building something that others in the gaming hardware space aren't doing.
  • Wants to make sure everyone knows she is committed to Xbox, starting with the console
  • Asha is committed to Xbox hardware and wants to protect the long-term investment that Xbox players have put into Xbox since the beginning. She will announce more on how that long-term investment will be protected soon.
  • Wants to keep releasing games for gamers wherever they play
  • Wants to reduce the artificial divide between the different devices that people want to play Xbox games on
  • Acknowledges that a lack of exclusives hurt Xbox hardware in recent years, and says everything is on the table for revisions to Xbox's strategy (including the return of some form of exclusivity) as they finalize their strategy in the coming months.
  • Asha and Booty are going on a whirlwind tour of Xbox's first party studios to hear from everyone about their thoughts on what Xbox should do as they devise their strategy for Xbox
  • They say not to expect drastic changes soon (which implies that their strategy changes will most likely be targeted at next-gen, not the remainder of this gen)
  • Booty says that Xbox's studios are built around 1st party and that is how things will remain, Xbox Game Studios could never operate like 3rd party publishers do. Xbox's studios provide feedback on features they need for their games to the hardware team when new hardware is being designed, optimize their titles for Xbox hardware more heavily than 3rd party studios do, etc.
  • Asha says they don't want any of their studios to abandon their current community to chase new communities, and that new communities will be targeted in other ways
  • Asha says she has learned 2 important things about making a great platform during her career: "the quality of the product that you deliver for the core user, and the integrity of the decisions that stand behind it. "
  • Asha on AI and fears over it's use at Xbox: "I think that with any new technology, it brings possibilities as a tool, but even more important, especially now — we need to draw lines on what we won't do. That's what I attempted to do when I shared my opening letter," she explained. "I will not flood our ecosystem with slop. We won't have careless output, we won't have derivative work. I deeply believe in the words that I shared previously there."
  • Booty on concerns of Xbox implementing a top down AI development tools requirement upon their 1st party studios: "We've got no pressure from Microsoft, there are no directives on AI coming down. Our teams are free to use any technologies that might be beneficial, whether it's helping write code or check for bugs — things more in the production pipeline. At the end of the day as Asha said, we're committed to art made by people."
  • Booty and Asha are committed to keeping all sizes of games going within the 1st party, small, medium, and blockbuster
Last edited by shikamaru317 - 9 hours ago