Xbox winds down Copilot on mobile, stops console work

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on social media that the company will retire features that do not align with its priorities. She identified Copilot as the first feature to be scaled back: “We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console.”

Sharma wrote that the company promoted long-time Xbox leaders and brought in new leaders from Microsoft’s CoreAI unit as part of a reorganization meant to speed up work and reduce friction for players and developers. She added the mix of promotions and hires is intended to “get the business back on track.”

Sharma wrote that Xbox will refocus its artificial intelligence work on specific player problems, naming real-time graphics, discovery and personalization as priorities.

Copilot is an AI-assisted help feature Microsoft demonstrated running on Xbox Series X and Series S earlier this year. Demos showed in-game assistance for titles such as Forza Horizon and Sea of Thieves. With console development stopped and the mobile variant being wound down, those planned integrations will not move forward in their current form.

Microsoft did not provide a timetable for the mobile shutdown and has not disclosed whether elements of Copilot will be repurposed. Sharma’s post stated the company will “begin” to retire features that do not fit its direction, indicating Copilot may not be the only feature affected.