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What's dumber than CEOs making these predictions, is people thinking the CEO actually believes it's possible.

They're just saying what share holders want to hear, that's all this is.

They say this at the same time as they are dropping a bunch of developers and saying they are focusing on AAA titles. What the hell does this company want? If you want billions of people, you want the casual market. Do they have some kind of sci fi dream of everyone on the planet playing some mega MMO? It's not going to happen

There are nowhere near this many gamers on the planet. And since you guys (big tech) are literally buying up all the RAM there is you can't even make new gamers because no one has any fucking money.

that’s one eight of the earth’s population, all playing xbox on the same day

it’s meaningless ceospeak to make investors salivate. this will not happen.

Everything with these fucking CEOs is about “a billion people” or “a billion dollars”.

Microsoft is high on it's own supply. The leadership is so out of touch with its customers that I can't wait to watch them hit bottom.

Following the tech CEO tradition of grossly exaggerating what is even conceivably possible and hoping hype is enough to get investors, bonuses and a golden parachute.

She was hired to lay people off.

I still remember the internet glazing this new CEO a couple months ago cause they lowered prices.

Like, cmon people. It's a CEO. They're all delusional. That's how they got the job.

Growth while laying people off like stupid. How is that supposed to work?

The quote is

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect

Are they moving into other forms of entertainment like web, or media?

Well Asha, as income distribution goes to shit, good luck with your one billion number.

I knew an ai ceo was gonna start pulling some absolute bullshit as soon as they gained command smh

I'll never understand how the dumbest people keep getting these jobs.

Not even Minecraft, which Microslop owns, has sold past a 4th of that amount lol.

And that's assuming all of those users actually logged in at the same time after more than a decade of sales lol.

This is an absurd number.

I hate how people just say random stuff that they think sounds good and no one questions it anymore because it fulfils their financial fantasy.

You can say whatever you want now it doesn't matter. Tesla will have full self driving by 2016! Metaverse will have 1 billion users by 2030! It's all bull shit.

She wants to go mobile. That's the only way to get those numbers.

So she wants to capture the entirety of the financially active population on the planet. Who believes this nonsense?

Heavy emphasis on the word "wants".

Growth mindset is delusional. But they think they have to be delusional to appease investors.

Is she pulling that number out of her ass? Steam can't even get 50M per average days let alone 1000M

Sounds like they're trying to get into the Chinese market then?

Ie games on your phone. They're going to make a big pivot to phones.

It's ok guys, Copilot Gamer Agents will make up the population difference /s

I'm guessing she is the new Ellen Pao for x-box? Xbox is cratering and they need some good scapegoat to push through some more nonsense, so they put her there and once shits really on fire, they can just point at her

I was trying to compare this goal with the mobile gaming market, which is undeniably the biggest gaming market out there. Free Fire, a free mobile PUBG clone that became more popular than PUBG itself, had a peak of 150 million daily active players. This means you'd need at least to have the equivalent to 6.7 Free Fires running at the same time to even try to reach a peak of 1 billion daily active players (yes, I know, funny number). And Free Fire was one of those games that blew up like nothing else.

So Netflix most popular movie of all times KPop Demon Hunters have 325M views. That's most popular paid platform.
Playstation that have 45% of console market have roughly 132M monthly active user accounts.

source https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/most-popular
source https://sqmagazine.co.uk/playstation-statistics/

However...
There are 1B Windows 11 users Microsoft earnings call, Jan 28, 2026

source https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q2

So she's aiming at xbox Solitaire and FreeCell or talking about going mobile.