Microsoft Kills The Copilot AI For Xbox Nobody Wanted
Kotaku | 06.05.2026 03:39
The last talk I attended at GDC 2026 before flying home that night was a Microsoft presentation on Gaming Copilot. It laid out ways that the company was trying to use AI and LLM models to improve playing on Xbox. I wrote at the time that the goal of the presentation was to “make gaming AI on Xbox sound less scary to an audience skeptical of its potential.” But when I shared a clip online of what it sounds like when you ask Copilot for help in a game like Sea of Thieves, many gamers, including Xbox fans, were immediately repulsed. Less than two months later, Microsoft is killing the initiative.