adding AI to everything will continue until morale improves
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.
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 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.
"Aw dang, I completely forgot how to make one of the most basic recipes in minecraft."
For the uninitiated: you take a stick. You take some whatever you think, and you make a sword shape. At the point in the game where you don't know what a sword can be made of you probably have dirt, wood, and stone. Through arduous trial and error I'm sure you can figure it something out.
If we dont sell this crap the entire world economy will implode. Now eat your Microslop.
They've been trying so hard, and they've got nothing.
They went all-in on mystifying predictive text, enjoy your slop.
I'll preface by saying I don't think it's a good idea, but-
Fallout TV Show (and friends) have brought a lot of new people to gaming that might have eschewed it before, a lot of those people have no idea what they're doing in videogames.
An 'AI assistant' could help in a face-saving way (consider a 60 year old father who's never played, and possibly chastised games in the past, is now getting into Fallout NV due to the TV show - asking their kids that they ridiculed about games would be embarrassing, but asking an AI may not be)
Basically, letting old people who hated videogames, play videogames.
Why must people pay video games? If people don't like it, just don't play it. Watch a YouTube playthrough if you must.
Automating the experience of art is such a dystopian nightmare.
Also they'll quickly learn about games where you need to git gud. Most games, especially recently, come equipped with a "baby mode storytime" difficulty setting, and theres more slice-of-life job-simulator games than ever.
If you try and go from "games are for children im too old for these newfangled marios" to "bullethell deathfest 6" youre gonna have a bad time
In what way would the AI help
Like, what specific thing would it do?
Why not just.. use Google?
project Helix is a rack mounted xbox. I get it now.
Quick poll: did anyone ask for this? Any single person at all?
I had no idea Mr Clean has a choking fetish...
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
nuerolinks forced on every single person? lol okay, that's enough internet for today...
Pax Judeica
Microslop has always failed upwards.
That's really not true though. If Satya hadn't guided Microsoft to their current cloud services model, their loses in various anti-trust cases could have ended the company as a penny stock.
These huge companies aren't immune to consequences.
SEARS was untouchable, and is now nothing.
SEARS didn't adapt. They were a mailorder king in the 80s, but somehow they didn't feel online store was the method they should go with...which is just mailorder with an online catalog.
Same seems to be happening with MS, they don't understand their clients.
Microslop trying to ease the comming AI bubble crash by forcing AI down our throat?
This would make more sense if they didn't idioticly rebrand from cortana, the AI from halo, to copilot
Which was already the name of a feature on the xbox to have 2 controllers pretending to be one. Is it the same thing as the thing on Windows that keeps trying to force its way down my throat or something different that has the same name so when people complain online about it there will be deliberate confusion about the exact nature of the complaint until frustration causes users to lash out at eachother instead of finding and fixing the problem?
Exactly what your few remaining fans want.
What does that even mean?
Now I can ask copilot how best to insult someone's mom?
Talos Principle be like
Because the concentration span of every new generation keeps decreasing. If they don't figure out things immediately, they get frustrated and do sth else like scroll TikTok to get the instant dopamine boost.
I just wish the end would come already.
Tired of watching the goddamn preamble.
I don't need this Microslop
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 they 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.
Can I tell it to get rid of the ads on my Xbox home screen?
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.
It's okay to look back fondly at the fun you had in childhood
I was a kid late 90s / early 2000s. Microsoft was the silly pinball game on my grandmas computer, drawing dicks on paint with my friends, learning to type in school, and Master Chief.
Phil Spencer probably didn't approved of this and got shitcanned.
This would be so cool with a shotgun barrel in my mouth and the trigger pulled!!!
Okay so all 4 Series X consoles sold, including mine. I won't use it, so that leaves 3 possibilities left.
I sold mine last week, so those numbers are off a little.
That's what Microslop thinks.
We'll see if Nintendo continues to do the smart thing, while their opponents shoot themselves in the foot, which is nothing
For what....
I have a..... xbox one x, I think? Is that a current gen console? I'll have to make sure its offline if they try to insert that shit in my box.
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