… The company tried to justify the price hike with a variety of upgrades across all of its Xbox Game Pass tiers, but the cost increase has clearly taken its toll on Game Pass. …
… The rest of the Game Pass lineup remains unchanged, after Microsoft originally hiked prices in October. …
… Earlier this week, Sharma reversed a decision to add future Call of Duty titles to Xbox Game Pass, a decision that had originally been debated fiercely inside Microsoft and never made sense. …
… Microsoft has raised the prices of its 13-inch Surface Pro 11 and 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 by $500 more than their original starting price. …
… It will now increase the length of a user’s suspension each time they break the same rule within a violation’s expiration window. …
… And I think that’s going to become a big debate. It was even part of the Pope’s encyclical recently. I think it’s going to become a very, very big part of the debate soon. …
… Have you debated it? Do you have an agreement? We debate it a lot. …
… That insight of Reserve building – and we’ve been at it for four to five years, reliability is not perfect perfect, but it’s 99% now, and we’re always working that trade-off between reliability and price, because we want the price premium to be as low as possible, but you can’t lose too much reliab… …
… There’s a lot of AI safety debate in our country and in the world, so I want to come back to that. …