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Xbox CEO sees small teams building games that once took hundreds of developers

For Xbox’s 25th anniversary, CEO Asha Sharma described a future where small teams might make large-scale games that once required hundreds of developers and budgets reaching hundreds of millions of dollars. She also suggested that one person may soon have capabilities that used to require the resources of entire countries. That’s a possibility, not a result already demonstrated. Notably, the anniversary message itself did not mention AI. The report connects her remarks to Microsoft’s expanding AI efforts, including Xbox Labs, an initiative exploring AI-assisted game development. Sharma rejects using AI to produce low-quality content or flood the platform with games lacking creativity; standout games and hardware with clear identities remain priorities.

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