{"id":344899,"date":"2026-03-13T22:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:07:09","slug":"microsofts-copilot-ai-assistant-is-coming-to-current-gen-xbox-consoles-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344899\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Copilot AI assistant is coming to current-gen Xbox consoles this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Xbox is getting ready to launch its Gaming Copilot AI assistant on \u201ccurrent-generation consoles\u201d this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/xbox-just-revealed-gaming-copilot-is-coming-to-current-generation-consoles-later-this-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a report from GamesRadar<\/a>. Sonali Yadav, Xbox\u2019s product manager for gaming AI, revealed the news during a panel at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), adding that the company will also add the assistant to \u201cmore services that players are playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft has been working on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/628666\/microsoft-xbox-copilot-for-gaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gaming-focused Copilot assistant<\/a> for months now, with the company launching it in beta on the Xbox mobile app, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/719668\/microsoft-xbox-gaming-copilot-windows-game-bar-beta-test\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 11<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/682011\/microsoft-windows-xbox-pc-combination-features-rog-xbox-ally-devices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox Ally handhelds<\/a>. Players can use their voice to call upon the Gaming Copilot if they get stuck in a game, and the AI assistant is supposed to reply with suggestions about what to do next. It can also answer questions about a player\u2019s gaming history, offer up tips or strategies, and provide game recommendations. In <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xbox.com%2Fen-US%2Fgaming-copilot\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">examples shared by Xbox<\/a>, players can ask Gaming Copilot how to beat a particular boss or which materials they need to craft a sword in Minecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xbox is getting ready to launch its Gaming Copilot AI assistant on \u201ccurrent-generation consoles\u201d this year, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[220,213,61,60,1071,43,216,80,23130],"class_list":["post-344899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-gaming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}