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literally give me one reason why this should exist
To quickly add 200 million unwilling new Copilot users for the next shareholder report since nobody's buying the Microslop? Not that it's a good reason, but that's my guess.
Come on, Satya’s bonus depends on it!
As it currently exists on other platforms, Gaming Copilot lets you ask guide-like questions about the game you're currently playing. Microsoft's official site offers an example question like "Can you remind me what materials I need to craft a sword in Minecraft?"
I haven't used consoles for a few generations, but historically, switching between a game and a Web browser on a console wasn't all that great, and text entry wasn't all that great. I dunno if things have improved, but it was definitely a pain in the neck to refer to a website in-game historically.
On Linux, Wayland, I swap between fullscreen desktops when playing games, and often have a Web browser with information relevant to the game on another desktop. If it helps enable some approximation of a workflow like that for console players, that doesn't sound unreasonable.
There are other objections I'd have, like not really wanting someone logging what my voice sounds like or giving Microsoft even more data on me to profile with via my searches. But it sounds to me like the basic functionality has a point.
I just use my phone to look stuff up if I'm on my steam deck.
I think that there is a niche for platform-provided guides like on Steam. They'd probably not be user-created on consoles tho because of a potential liability for what 69_gamer_420 wrote, but either game studios themselves or existing 3rd parties could've created a web app to serve their guides in the overlay or integrate these into the game itself (prerecorded ghost-players?). If it could have been put as a standard accessibility feature by Microsoft, I could see it happening. And I find it more probable than a genuinely helpful chatbot because of too many dependencies on context in each and every game. I've already got unasked advices on a few games that boiled down to using mechanics not present in exact games I was googling about.
If they just moderate the fucking platform people pay for user created guides aren’t a problem.
Can Microsoft play its own games for me so I don't have to play them?
That's the idea, but you need to pay for the game first so that MS can enjoy it.
Quick poll: did anyone ask for this? Any single person at all?
There's one person. He is bald and has a very chokeable trachea.
I had no idea Mr Clean has a choking fetish...
AI Georg, who asks for this 10,000 times per day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
You know the one
Data miners. Mining minors.
I mean, MS does support Trump
Fucking disgusting, Microslop cannot help themselves, Satya needs to be thrown out of the company at this stage. He's going to run Microsoft into the ground and everything they ever bought. As eventually, people are just going to stop paying and using their stuff with this continued forced push of LLM garbage. It needs to stop. I use Linux as my main operating system, my Xbox Series S is an extra in my home. It will be replaced with a Steam Machine ASAP.
Hey... Not to worry. The goal is for us to be forced to use proprietary, AI ridden malware. Android is locking down, age verification and hardware level scanning laws are coming to every western nation. They would never just outlaw Linux but they could neuter its freedom and autonomy. Privacy ROMs will be banned soon, either explicitly or by being made near impossible to get. Every device, every interaction online, every communication, will be scanned for state approved guidelines.
Thiel, the Heritage Foundation, the Elsons, and a bunch of rich fucks and companies want to control every single part of your life. Mark my words when I tell you, if they get their way in the future, we'll all be slaves (literal slaves, not wage slaves) and neurolinks will be forced in every single person. These people are disgusting and sick
Microslop trying to ease the comming AI bubble crash by forcing AI down our throat?
Exactly what your few remaining fans want.
This would make more sense if they didn't idioticly rebrand from cortana, the AI from halo, to copilot
What does that even mean?
Now I can ask copilot how best to insult someone's mom?
If you need that much handholding, why not just watch a playthrough on YouTube and save yourself the money?
i no cap do this for puzzles that i don't give a shit about and do not enjoy solving
A trillion dollars to reinvent cheat codes.
What a world.
Fuck sakes, I bet I can't turn automatic updates off / can't play installed games without internet access...
I don't need this shit
I just don't see how this could provide any value. Assuming a new games comes out, there is literally no information to train on but the game itself. You kind of need existing guides for that and if developers have to write them themselves, you might as well add those with a good full text search.
On top of that, the age of guides seems kind of gone. Most games are quite on the nose about everything and tend to present more tutorials than you will ever need.
And lastly, I just don't want to write stuff out on a console and neither do I want to wear some kind of microphone for my single player games.
They likely want to start collecting data. So the need to get something rushed out so that they can build up the pile of data they will need to build out and refine this feature in time for the launch of their next console.
Copilot seems like an online feature. As such, I hope it requires a GamePass subscription like all multiplayer games do.
Good news you can have it for free! Oh and don’t worry, it’ll automatically be included with the next update!
Can I tell it to get rid of the ads on my Xbox home screen?
No. But you can use it to get misinformation.
Phil Spencer probably didn't approved of this and got shitcanned.
Growing old is watching all of your heroes die
Why was Microsoft ever your hero?
When you were a kid in the early 2000's, you didnt know about things like bill gates being a pedophile and "microslop", you just knew that on friday night you were going to go over to your friends house and play halo and gears on their xbox. Those were simpler times
Yes, though I think of them more as the times I unknowingly supported a company that was actively contributing to the death of digital literacy in the western world.
So, tomato potato — or whatever.
The Xbox dashboard is already a mess so I hope this doesn't make it even more shit. I know it will though.
Current-generation consoles? You know you can't put copilot on switch 2, Microsoft?
They will train it on user input and have it tell players to "kill this" or "kill that", what could go wrong...
I never thought I would say this about Cortana, but... gross. Nobody wants this, Microslop!
Okay so all 4 Series X consoles sold, including mine. I won't use it, so that leaves 3 possibilities left.
This would be so cool with a shotgun barrel in my mouth and the trigger pulled!!!
For what....