{"id":28566,"date":"2026-05-05T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:10:09","slug":"microsoft-kills-the-copilot-ai-for-xbox-nobody-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28566\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Kills The Copilot AI For Xbox Nobody Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last talk I attended at GDC 2026 before flying home that night was a Microsoft presentation on Gaming Copilot. It laid out ways that the company was trying to use AI and LLM models to improve playing on Xbox<\/a>. I wrote at the time that the goal of the presentation was to \u201cmake gaming AI on Xbox sound less scary to an audience skeptical of its potential<\/a>.\u201d But when I shared a clip online of what it sounds like when you ask Copilot for help in a game like Sea of Thieves, many gamers, including Xbox fans, were immediately repulsed<\/a>. Less than two months later, Microsoft is killing the initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cXbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers,\u201d recently appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote on X<\/a> on May 5. \u201cToday, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business back on track. As part of this shift, you\u2019ll see us begin to retire features that don\u2019t align with where we\u2019re headed. We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft is bringing Gaming Copilot to Xbox later this year. <\/p>\n

Here’s what it sounds like when you ask the AI for help:https:\/\/t.co\/11rzlunD2J<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/HSS6LJC0VO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kotaku (@Kotaku) March 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest popular move<\/a> by an executive who\u2019s moving fast to, in the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, \u201cwin back fans<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019s also an unexpected one coming from a non-Xbox native who joined from Microsoft\u2019s CoreAI division. Copilot always seemed like an awkward fit for Xbox, especially after average consumers had already rejected it on PC. It\u2019s not clear where that leaves the company\u2019s big bets on AI to reshape the economy, but it\u2019s the most notable boondoggle yet that Sharma\u2019s thrown in the bin.<\/p>\n

Xbox isn\u2019t abandoning AI entirely. AutoSR, a feature to have hardware automatically optimize performance to achieve better trade-offs between resolution and framerate, just recently rolled out on the ROG Xbox Ally X for users in the Xbox Insider testing program. It\u2019s unclear if that will still come to console later this year as previously planned. But AutoSR is a much more obvious fit for the platform as Microsoft tries to figure out what belongs<\/a>, and what doesn\u2019t, moving forward.<\/p>\n