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Is she pulling that number out of her ass? Steam can't even get 50M per average days let alone 1000M
Well Asha, as income distribution goes to shit, good luck with your one billion number.
The quote is
I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect
Are they moving into other forms of entertainment like web, or media?
Those are already on the Xbox. It is a full media player. My kids rarely play games. But they watch Netflix and YouTube for hours.
Will it run edge?
Xbox already has Edge. Not terrible for quick couchsurfing honestly.
It's not about Xbox the console, it's about Xbox the company
...or porn?
I was trying to compare this goal with the mobile gaming market, which is undeniably the biggest gaming market out there. Free Fire, a free mobile PUBG clone that became more popular than PUBG itself, had a peak of 150 million daily active players. This means you'd need at least to have the equivalent to 6.7 Free Fires running at the same time to even try to reach a peak of 1 billion daily active players (yes, I know, funny number). And Free Fire was one of those games that blew up like nothing else.
I want a robot horse, like one of my He-Man action figures had. It had like a laser canon mounted on it's butt.
Strider?
Strider?
I think so, yeah that's old nueron firing back up.
that’s one eight of the earth’s population, all playing xbox on the same day
it’s meaningless ceospeak to make investors salivate. this will not happen.
These wannabe slot machine/digital drug “games” should be illegal for how they lock that many people in for hours a day and emptying their bank accounts. They will continue buying out studios to destroy them to later sell you shit.
This is an absurd number.
I hate how people just say random stuff that they think sounds good and no one questions it anymore because it fulfils their financial fantasy.
Can these people just drop dead
Sure, go for it. I challenge them to do it.
Either they go for it and end up actually making something good, or they just well do more of the same and nothing lost
Ie games on your phone. They're going to make a big pivot to phones.
Uh-huh. Good luck with that, Asha
There are nowhere near this many gamers on the planet. And since you guys (big tech) are literally buying up all the RAM there is you can't even make new gamers because no one has any fucking money.
I also don't have a lot of money for fun because no one is hiring because all the psychotic C-suite think AI is going to replace everyone. Or they think they can just squeeze labor harder and use AI as an excuse.
But either way, fuck Microsoft.
Totally man. Whole world is trying to squeeze blood from stone and literally everyone has no fucking money for anything.
It's beyond insanity.
You can say whatever you want now it doesn't matter. Tesla will have full self driving by 2016! Metaverse will have 1 billion users by 2030! It's all bull shit.
Everything with these fucking CEOs is about “a billion people” or “a billion dollars”.
All the AI companies claim a total addressable market of literally every person on the planet.
Seeing as the new XBox CEO used to head an AI company, I'm not surprised she still has a similar outlook
NVIDIA are trying to convince investors that AI agents will need computers to run on so that they can have more customers than there are people.
What's dumber than CEOs making these predictions, is people thinking the CEO actually believes it's possible.
They're just saying what share holders want to hear, that's all this is.
I think we're at a point where CEOs actually do believe thse things, because the whole thing has been going on for long enough where people who are dumb enough to actually believe what the shareholders want have gotten to the top. They've gotten there via taking in what the shareholders want and actually believing it, it's clear they're dumb enough for that.
Prolly thinks AI can dumb down a game to be on everyone's phones.
They say this at the same time as they are dropping a bunch of developers and saying they are focusing on AAA titles. What the hell does this company want? If you want billions of people, you want the casual market. Do they have some kind of sci fi dream of everyone on the planet playing some mega MMO? It's not going to happen
They want 12.5% of the world's population to play xbox every day.
It's pure delusion. AI psychosis, probably.
You get a billion users on FarmVille type shit.
Why? You can put FarmVille in a browser or phone in front of a billion users.
They’re going to need to sell a lot of X boxes to get AAA size games in front of people.
The math does not even work with casual mobile games: MS owns King and hence Candy Crush, one of the most popular casual mobile games ever. At its peak Candy Crush had 293 million active monthly (!) players. So even if one is generous, those numbers comes down to some 10 million daily user. They want games that are the equivalent of 100 Candy Crush-es. It is pure folly.
I'm not surprised MS owns the dogshit company that tried to sue any game with the word "saga" in its title
That's not how daily versus monthly works. If a user logs in for 30 days out of the month they are a single user. I'd guess that 300 million monthly is closer to 40 million daily. Still ridiculous and not close to a billion but a noticable difference.
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Microsoft is high on it's own supply. The leadership is so out of touch with its customers that I can't wait to watch them hit bottom.
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I knew an ai ceo was gonna start pulling some absolute bullshit as soon as they gained command smh
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