Defining Duke, Episode 279 | Xbox Overhauls The System... - New Leadership + Copilot Is GONE! (Patreon)

It appears that Xbox got sick of the whole weekly negative news cycle schtick and has decided to go in the other direction. Is this week's news truly all that positive? I sincerely depends on how you look at it and nobody will actually know until much later. Asha Sharma has made new additions to her leadership team. Sarah Bond's former team has been replaced by alumni of Meta, Instacart, and CoreAI which all happen to be people that worked with Asha at the same time she led those respective companies. Is this the invasion of AI into Xbox as we intially feared? We get into that, but there's almost zero doubt that Xbox anticipated this because they pulled out quite the plot twist. Copilot for console and mobile is stopped, effective immediately. So, while there is more AI focused leadership than ever in Xbox, they also just axed one of the worst things the brand started rolling out last year. How do the Dukes feel about all of this? Well, that's why you're here, no? Pull up a chair, relax, and let's talk about Xbox some more before Brad returns and ruins it all.

Timestamps:0:00:00 - Intro

0:09:13 - Health Is Wealth

0:16:28 - Halo 2 & 3 reportedly being remade

0:38:22 - New Xbox boot up screen for the first time in 6 years

0:42:12 - Jez Corden’s latest Xbox exclusivity scoop

1:10:20 - GameStop is trying to acquire eBay

1:17:06 - Steam Machine pre orders soon?

1:21:17 - PS4 and XB1 may finally be on the way out

1:27:54 - Bank Of America wants higher priced games

1:33:03 - NBA: The Run revealed and arrives June 2026

1:38:00 - Are content creators heavily influencing the conversation?

1:56:15 - Marathon has story plans for the next few years

1:59:00 - Looking ahead at May 2026 game releases

2:27:17 - What We’re Playing

3:10:04 - Xbox is giving up Copilot and bringing in a new leadership group