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Microsoft has been planning to kill Xbox for a few months so this is the sunset plan in motion.
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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I don't have a link myself (except from my own brain slop gaming website), but basically they put a Microsoft AI executive to be in the position of the gaming department, and she has no experience in that apparently.
i spent the last fifteen min or so looking to see who she was compared to who the previous was. Apparently he was a g#mer CEO or something and the new one isnt so all the other g*mers are mad or whatever so i guess its not sexism but im not a gamer so I have no Idea wtf is going on.
She cares about birthrates and works at Microsoft, so maybe that clears up what kind of tech-fascist she is.
bunch of xbox fanboys think Phil ruined the brand for whatever reason. there'll be some defending him but it's not universal
separately, joke censoring makes your text less accessible so have a thought on whether the tired bit is worthwhile
Pretty easy to see why looking at the state of Xbox
that shit fell off a cliff for me when they fumbled with whatever the console after the 360 was and the drm and all the weird non-gaming shit they were advertising to a gaming audience.
Objectively speaking, he did. Whether he is directly responsible or not, he's the figurehead.
separately, I don't care.
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