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As Xbox Turns 25, CEO Asha Sharma Says 'A Single Person Will Soon Be Able to Wield Capabilities That Once Required Entire Nations'

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As Xbox Turns 25, CEO Asha Sharma Says 'A Single Person Will Soon Be Able to Wield Capabilities That Once Required Entire Nations'

Xbox chief Asha Sharma has discussed her vision of the video games industry's next 25 years, and suggested its future lies in small teams or individuals able to "wield capabilities that once required entire nations."

Sharma's essay, posted today on X/Twitter ahead of Xbox's quarter century anniversary this weekend, seems to take pains not to explicitly reference A.I. by name. But in a section looking ahead to the future of the Xbox brand and video games in general, the huge role that Sharma apparently believes A.I. will play is made pretty clear.

"While modern games demonstrate the heights of human craft in ways unimaginable just decades ago, the cost, resources, and risk required to create them have grown just as dramatically," Sharma wrote. "As a result, too many ideas never become games, and too many games fall short of what their creators imagined. For decades, this has been the unavoidable trade-off of ambition. We must change this.

"Throughout human history, the scale of what we could create was determined by the people, capital, and resources we could command. That relationship is beginning to break," Sharma continued. "A single person will soon be able to wield capabilities that once required entire nations. A small team will be able to build worlds that today demand hundreds of developers and hundreds of millions of dollars. And our largest studios will be able to pursue ambitions as far beyond today's games as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is from its first entry in 1982."

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