EA reportedly expects Battlefield 6 to have 100 million players, three times more than the series' best seller | Eurogamer.net

These executives are fucking killing me man, I'm so tired, imagine being a developer at Battlefield and learning you need to reach 100m players or you're fucked, for fuck sake.

100 million? That is practically impossible. 

Microsoft's push into AI doesn't mean the company is replacing workers with the technology. Rather, the significant cost of building out the infrastructure over multiple years has Microsoft looking to trim costs where it can.

During the company's 2025 fiscal year, which ended Monday, Microsoft said it planned to spend more than $80 billion on infrastructure to meet AI demands. That's a $25 billion increase in capital expenditures from the company's 2024 fiscal year.

Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B

They could literally reinvest their profits back into their stupid AI pursuit but instead Satya is taking it out of every other division in the company, not only Xbox, everyone has been hit by Satya's recent layoffs. What is the point in those massive profits if you're not going to reinvest it back into the company?

$80 billion?! So yes these layoffs are to save money to spend on AI. Imagine what would happen if the AI fad dies out?

lmao so basically Zenimax Online wasn't doing much of anything for 7 years. "Making a new engine..." we all know what that means, literally just updating the existing engine, and the actual new game you were supposed to be working on didn't even make it out of pre-production in all that time. So my conservative estimate of the game being 3 years away at the earliest was WAYYYYY too optimistic. Hell if I'm to take Ryuu's word for it, then 7 years dev for a new MMO isn't enough for me to expect a reveal trailer, soooo I guess we're talking another decade on top of the 7 years pre-production? Yes, I'm being a bit facetious here, but seriously....are we now still shocked and upset that this got canned?

Take the core team, update/transition ESO to the new/updated engine. Meanwhile, a design team can spin up pre-production on an established franchise that's a safer investment for the time it's gonna take to actually make a new game. Hell keep it sci-fi, you can integrate some of the ideas you already had along the way. Make a Starfield MMO, or hell why not take a crack at Halo or Gears...fuck it, if Bethesda is still into licensing shit, make a deal with the Warhammer guys and make an MMO of that. Figure it out in the next 6 months, do a normal fucking pre-production cycle, and you can start full production roughly 3 years from now and lost relatively minimal time to get a new game out, that will probably be more successful.

I'm wondering if Helldivers 2 opens the door to the likes of Stellar Blade eventually coming to Xbox. Sony owns the Helldivers IP, but they don't own the Stellar Blade IP.

Who knows though. Everything I thought I knew about how the gaming industry runs has been dismantled this entire generation.

I don't think AI will completely collapse but I have said before it will deflate somewhat, there's a difference between something being a big change and bringing in a lot of money and what Satya/OpenAI describe it as, it's like if NASA promised to reach Mars but only landed people on the Moon, it's still a great accomplishment but far from what was promised.

When investors start to realise that they're not getting what was promised out of AI they will pullback and that's probably when Satya's job will be most at risk, unfortunately knowing Satya, if AI fails to reach his ridiculous promises, he will just take it out on the rest of Microsoft and punish everyone else for his stupid overhype and overpromises.

AGI? We've been hearing about that shit being around the corner for years now and we're still nowhere close, it's AI that does basic shit and even then it still shows how stupid it is a lot of the time and gets basic shit wrong, Satya and OpenAI want us to believe that a real life Cortana is around the corner, it's not, it's nowhere near, I doubt we'll see AGI in my lifetime.

Off-topic because it's Amazon but I've just read that Amazon "employs" over 1m robots now so that they will very soon have more robots than humans in their company. 

AI and robots will laugh about us soon lol

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