Very strange, cause as the first reply to the top comment says, it’s NOT Microsoft requesting these takedowns. Why are Google taking the videos down without Microsoft asking them to?

You questioned why it exists while knowing the reason why it exists and pretending it doesn’t exist.

What product are you using to get that data from a live Azure database?

That’s a different story. You said that up until a year ago paid products didn’t have ads. That’s demonstrably false, we have decades of evidence to prove so.

How is that so hard to understand? How can one not grasp such a simple thing

The irony of this is just incredible.

Their revenues are all included in Xbox’s revenue lol. Have you ever even read one of Microsoft’s earnings reports? Doesn’t look like it. If there was a “confidently incorrect” community on here your comments would be pinned to the top lol

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/96558/big-3-revenues-compared-playstation-made-30-billion-in-2023-xbox-18/index.html

Now that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have all published their holiday earnings reports, we can compile the data and get a total sum for the entire year. According to data provided by the companies and analyzed by TweakTown, gaming’s Big 3 generated over $60 billion in combined annual revenues.

PlayStation leads the charge with a staggering $30.12 billion made during the year.

Microsoft is firmly in second place as Xbox tallies up to a mighty $18.128 billion. This of course includes Activision Blizzard King revenues as a result of the ABK acquisition. Xbox gaming revenues increased by 16.5% in 2023, compared to $15.563 billion in 2022. This is an increase of $2.56 billion, most of which was from the recognition of Activision’s revenues.

Show me ONE source showing that Xbox makes more revenue than PlayStation. Just one.

A spreadsheet? No, sales go through the database. That was also just an example. You could ask it to see which state has the most sales of product X between dates Y and Z for customers between age 18 and 25, as another example. You can ask it anything you can think of to do with the data.

It’s basically a reporting engine that can create ad-hoc reports at will.

It’s a lot easier to write a prompt for a report than it is to query the database, especially when you don’t know SQL etc - or even have access to the database.

Cable tv has literally had ads for decades. Magazines have had ads for as long as they existed.

What world have you been living in?

Oh so you do know the difference but you pretended you didn’t to try and act like there isn’t any?

What “total surveillance” are you talking about? You have full control over your data with copilot.

Now go look at both companies total gaming revenue for the whole year, not just the month that the biggest game of the year releases.

PlayStations revenue is about 50% more than Xbox’s.

Being baked into the OS means it can access parts of the OS. Asking ChatGPT in firefox to turn off HDR on your PC doesn’t work. Using Copilot built in to the OS means it can.

Sony easily beat them lol. Did you even look up the numbers?

but I still have to wonder why it needs “AI”

Because in teams you could type (or say) “how many customers are still awaiting their refunds for their services that were cancelled last week?” and it will go and do its little AI magic and respond with the answer.

people are going to build up a reliance on it to the point where they start to not be able to find that info on their own

But they can never find it on their own - it’s in a database, they have to use some tool to get it. Why can’t that tool be AI?

they already can’t handle the databases so why are they even fucking around in there anyway

They’re not! That’s the point. This way it gives them access to information that they would usually have to put in a support ticket, or run multiple reports and then try and compile them together, for example, to get. Now they can just ask a bot in teams a question and they get the answer.

why aren’t they learning how to use them if they’re so important for their jobs?

Because their job isn’t to access the production database.

It was generally believed about a year ago that ads would only show up in free products

It definitely was not lol. Ads have been in paid products for literal decades by this point.

You’re not going to be seeing an ad for plane tickets on the map - if you search for “burgers” you might get an ad for Burger King show up as a sponsored result at the top. That’s it, it’s just ads for companies that are relevant to what you searched for in the app.

Who said that?

Sure, luddite.

You’re confusing the word “dominant”. They’ve never been even remotely close to being dominant in gaming.

As one example I built an MCP server that lets LLMs access a reporting database, and made a Copilot Agent and integrated it into Teams, so now the entire business can ask a chat bot questions, using natural language in teams, about business data. It can run reports for them on demand, pulling in new columns/tables. It can identify when there might be something wrong as it also reads from our logs.

These people don’t know databases. They don’t know how to read debug/error logs.

I also use GitHub copilot.

But sure, it can’t be of any help to anyone ever lol

Being baked into the OS means it can do infinitely more than a browser based one can.

The AWS outage had nothing to do with AI lol.

with their dominant gaming position

If only Microsoft ever had that position. They’ve been distant third since the Switch 1 came out, distant second from day 1 of the PS4.