That threat seemingly helped lead to the current situation with the Xbox team \u201cnow largely controlling the direction of the operating system for the project, Fortune writes, though Sharma said the two groups are still working closely together. Fortune also reports that Microsoft has pressured the hardware team to move up the timelines for Project Helix hardware \u201cby at least several months,\u201d in part by using AI tools where applicable.<\/p>\n
The profile also cites \u201cpeople familiar with the strategy\u201d in reporting that Xbox Game Pass will soon shift to a heavily tiered \u201ca la carte\u201d structure that lets subscribers pick and choose \u201cadd-ons for console-only games, cloud gaming, and multiplayer.\u201d That would be an interesting shift from the current Game Pass plans, which all include<\/a> some level of cloud-based gaming, console exclusives, and console multiplayer even for players who don\u2019t make use of them.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the wide-ranging profile, Fortune addresses concerns from \u201cseveral current and former staff members\u201d that Sharma was put in place<\/a> merely to enact painful cuts<\/a> before an impending sale of a spinoff of the Xbox group. But the piece also quotes Microsoft executive Judson Althoff pushing back against that idea, saying, \u201cWe would not have put [Sharma] on a business we intend to sell. There\u2019s going to be a ton of speculation about all this. Time will tell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That threat seemingly helped lead to the current situation with the Xbox team \u201cnow largely controlling the direction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-889368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}