IT News on November 13th: On the afternoon of the 12th local time, Asha Sharma, the person in charge of Xbox at Microsoft, released a memorandum suggesting that generative AI might be utilized in future game development.

The memo is titled “Xbox: 25 Years,” and it reviews Microsoft’s journey from a small startup at its inception to a company with thousands of employees. However, what is truly worth noting is Sharma’s outlook for the future at the end of the document.

According to the content of the memo, when discussing the development of Xbox over the next 25 years, Sharma lamented that too many game ideas were never realized, and even those that did become games failed to meet the creators' expectations. "For decades, if we want to achieve grand goals, we have to accept such trade-offs. We must change this situation."

Throughout human history, the scale of creation has always been limited by the manpower, funds, and resources that could be mobilized. However, this limitation is beginning to break down. What in the past required the efforts of an entire nation can now be accomplished by a single individual. The game worlds that once took hundreds of developers and billions of dollars to create today can be completed by a small team in the future. As for our largest studios, they will also be capable of realizing grand visions that far surpass current games, just as "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024" has made leaps and bounds compared to the initial version of the series from 1982.

Foreign media Eurogamer believes that what Sharma mentioned about individuals having capabilities that in the past would have required the efforts of an entire nation to achieve is easily reminiscent of generative AI. Before taking charge of Xbox, Sharma was also mainly engaged in AI business at Microsoft.

However, since taking on the role of CEO, Sharma has always maintained a cautious attitude towards generative AI. At that time, she clearly stated that she "could not tolerate inferior AI." In the following months, Xbox underwent many changes, including a major reorganization, and generative AI gradually ceased to be the focus of discussion.

The report indicates that this memo suggests the beginnings of Sharma's previous AI plan coming into sight.