Xbox says goodbye to its leader Karim Choudhary after being with the company for so long, having worked with them for more than two decades. The final step comes after some significant changes to the gaming unit, although there doesn’t seem to be an end to it on the horizon either.
The next feature that particularly impressed me was the AI playground, and soon after, Chaudhary introduced another AI chatbot. Leveling up the AI playground is certainly one of Tahir Chaudhary’s recent priorities, and his efforts to turn Xbox into an AI-powered platform have been widely reported. He was also very active, starting with backward compatibility and launching a data center-powered streaming game (xCloud) in 2019.
Microsoft has already begun restructuring its teams to respond to the news of Chaudhary’s departure. His team, Xbox Emerging Tech, will assist the hardware team currently led by Roan Soans. Additionally, a new Xbox Experience and Platform team has been formed, headed by Ashley McKissic and Kevin Gammill, signaling a new mechanism for bringing the Xbox experience to different platforms and PCs.
The placement of long-exclusive titles among the Xbox Series rival platforms in November, as well as the relatively recent (3-ish) Sea of Thieves, shows some sort of desire by Xbox to diversify beyond the traditional Xbox-set-based positioning. Underlines. The success of Sea of Thieves on PS5 will determine the future of the next-gen exclusive.
What happens next will have many more twists hidden for us. Phil Spencer (Xbox boss) has mentioned the possibility of an Xbox handheld unit and has also expressed his interest in including replaceable PC platforms like the Epic Game Store and Itch. These developments mean that Microsoft is testing recent ideas that could lead to the development of a new Xbox.
This event is a planned showcase by Microsoft of its new products and services, which will be held on June 9 this upcoming summer. This will be the place for updated news like the new Gears of War title has just been announced, and dates for upcoming games like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and Avto will be released, details of the next Call of Duty title will be given. This, without a doubt, points to the fact that Xbox is working very hard so that it is not left behind in a very busy and evolving gaming environment.
