Overview
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said Tuesday that the company will stop developing Copilot for consoles and begin winding down the mobile version.
- Sharma paired the move with a reorganization that brings in CoreAI veterans Jared Palmer, Tim Allen, Jonathan McKay, and Evan Chaki, with David Schloss taking subscriptions and cloud, as Kevin Gammill exits and Roanne Sones transitions to an advisory role after a leave.
- She said Xbox will redirect AI work to solve player problems such as real-time graphics upgrades, better game discovery, and deeper personalization, pointing to features that run in the background rather than chat-style helpers.
- The decision reverses a March plan to launch Gaming Copilot on current Xbox consoles later this year; the chatbot had been in beta on the Xbox mobile app, Windows 11/PC, and the ROG Xbox Ally, and Xbox has not addressed the status of those non-console builds.
- Sharma framed the reset as a way to ship faster and reduce friction for players and developers as Xbox works to steady a business that recently reported four revenue declines in six quarters and a 33% drop in hardware sales.