Greg Miller

I think even if the AI sector is part of the reason why you're seeing that dip, I don't think Microsoft will have the wherewithal to see that and go, damn, we got to slow down on the AI.

I don't think that at all.

I think they'll look at it and probably try to write it off to something else because everybody in tech right now is telling you the more AI that you implement, the more the money is going to come in from shareholders.

And that continues to be a thing.

I hope it pops tomorrow, but...

We're in such a weird place with it where like this train keeps on going with the AI shit.

Yeah.

I think that's true for, like, if you're somebody who's part of the core Xbox audience, I could totally understand that for all the reasons we're talking about of him being somebody who presents himself as, I love video games, I understand video games, I understand the audience, all this stuff, right?

I wonder how much that is true for the general video game fan base, like how many people are actually aware of who Phil Spencer is and how much this matters.

Yeah, I'm supposed to be mad at PlayStation still right now.

Like, what are we doing here?

Xbox, let me be mad at PlayStation.

But, like, let me sit in my seething rage about Blue Point for a little bit longer before now I'm in a different seething rage.

Yeah, I think that goes back to... I forget what the Gamescast episode was where I was... I think it was the Nintendo Hot Takes episode, actually, because it was posted with the partner direct, and I kind of, like, had a moment of deflation because I'm kind of... I was...

I was in my feelings a little bit about Nintendo and how I feel like I am in a weird place.

I'm in a weird place with my relationship with Nintendo because I've not been enjoying my Switch 2 as much in the last year or whatever.

And I think it was Mario Tennis Fever these last couple weeks that have really brought me back out of it and to the conversation that we're having as far as how different of a company Nintendo is than the two other console manufacturers.

I think there is something there that...

you know, obviously corporations, all that shit.

You can only like a corporation so much, but there's something about, about Nintendo that warms my heart because of the nostalgia aspect and growing up with it and always associating them with like a level of, Hey, we're just here for play.