Overview
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said Tuesday the company will halt Copilot for console and begin phasing it out on the Xbox mobile app after previously planning a console launch this year.
- She paired the move with a leadership shake-up that brings CoreAI veterans Jared Palmer, Tim Allen, Jonathan McKay, and Evan Chaki to Xbox, while Kevin Gammill exits and Roanne Sones shifts to an advisory role.
- Sharma said Xbox must ship faster, spend more time with players, and retire misaligned features after quarters of falling game revenue and a 33% drop in hardware sales.
- Copilot, a chatbot that offered tips and game recommendations, will give way to AI that boosts real-time graphics, discovery, and personalization, including background features like automatic super resolution.
- Sharma did not clarify the status of existing Copilot betas on the Xbox PC app or the ROG Xbox Ally, which launched in 2025 as part of Microsoft’s broader gaming AI trials.