A New Game is launched “What happened with Microsoft was clear”: Former Square Enix exec says Game Pass, “a service with barely any growth,” didn’t cause layoffs – competition with AI did is launched.
“What happened with Microsoft was clear”: Former Square Enix exec says Game Pass, “a service with barely any growth,” didn’t cause layoffs – competition with AI didnew features
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“What happened with Microsoft was clear”: Former Square Enix exec says Game Pass, “a service with barely any growth,” didn’t cause layoffs – competition with AI did new features
Jacob Navok – the CEO behind Silent Hill: Ascension streamer Genvid, and former Square Enix business director – believes that Microsoft’s latest round of crushing layoffs came from a power struggle with AI technology that’s currently reshaping the entire video game industry.
“The game industry is facing a fundamental realignment,” Navok writes in a lengthy Twitter thread. “This is not a passing storm. It is a change in the forces that stitched the industry,” which is now being held together by the more individualistic, flexible experiences offered by platforms like Roblox, Fortnite, and GTA Online.
While Navok rejects the idea that Roblox could ever fully supplant a more determinate video game – the fixed pathways of Dark Souls or something – “in the same way that movies or television did not go away with the advent of YouTube,” he believes Microsoft Gaming CEO “Phil Spencer is staring down the barrel of an industry that’s changed drastically since he greenlit Perfect Dark’s reboot.”