MINECRAFT JUST ANNOUNCED A NEW HEAD BOSS + PLANS FOR THE FUTURE... — Transcript

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1. 0:00All right.
2. 0:02So, it feels like it was just yesterday
3. 0:03that we were learning about a brand new
4. 0:05position over at Mojang and wondering
5. 0:07about the future and the implications of
6. 0:09it. Katie Scott over at Mojang, the head
7. 0:12of vanilla Minecraft, a big wig role.
8. 0:15And relatively new, she jumped into the
9. 0:17position this year in April. And now,
10. 0:20well, now just like its parents company,
11. 0:22Xbox yet another shakeup. A brand new
12. 0:26lead of vanilla, some brand new vanilla
13. 0:28initiatives. And over at Xbox, a brand
14. 0:30new CEO. Now, one more change closer to
15. 0:33home. Over at Mojang, a brand new boss
16. 0:36as well. In honor of my brand new
17. 0:39Netherite outfit, smash that like
18. 0:40button, please. It took a lot of work to
19. 0:42look this pretty. And now that new boss
20. 0:45and the future of Minecraft, what it
21. 0:47means for it. Ever since the very first
22. 0:50moments that Asha took her new role at
23. 0:52the helm of Xbox, she's been locked into
24. 0:55Minecraft and basically spoiling us.
25. 0:57Compared to the previous CEO, she is
26. 1:00refunding investment into Minecraft,
27. 1:02putting even more focus on Minecraft and
28. 1:04even trying to push and celebrate
29. 1:06Minecraft directly herself. With Mojang
30. 1:09being underneath Xbox and a change
31. 1:11happening over at Xbox involving the
32. 1:13leadership or anything major like that,
33. 1:15it's bound to affect Mojang in some sort
34. 1:17of weird trickle down way. Just this
35. 1:19past week, a gigantic announcement. I'm
36. 1:21not sure if you heard about it, but our
37. 1:22wonderful new Xbox CEO has declared that
38. 1:25Xbox has returned to growth. Yep, that's
39. 1:29right. When she took over Xbox earlier
40. 1:31this year, Xbox as a gaming brand and
41. 1:33studio as a whole had been on the
42. 1:36decline for years on years now under the
43. 1:39previous CEO Tim Scott. She jumped in,
44. 1:42pushed some buttons, and put a little
45. 1:43bit more focus on the craft. And now
46. 1:46Xbox is growing. But alongside that
47. 1:49brand new revelation of growth, we have
48. 1:51a brand new division at Xbox [music] 2
49. 1:54that mirrors exactly what Mojang and
50. 1:56Minecraft have been doing for a minute.
51. 1:58Asha announced that XP is a brand new
52. 2:02Xbox division that is making its way to
53. 2:04the world. Well, like yesterday, this
54. 2:08announcement right here is a relatively
55. 2:10blah blah typical business bigwig talk
56. 2:13type announcement. But long story short
57. 2:15right here, the ambition over at Xbox is
58. 2:17to be the number one entertainment
59. 2:19company in the world. That means the
60. 2:21games need to become franchises and
61. 2:23those franchises need to become more
62. 2:26than just a digital product. That's
63. 2:28where this brand new XP Xbox division
64. 2:31comes in. XP is a new Xbox division
65. 2:34helmed by none other than Kaen Waters.
66. 2:38Now look, man, I'll admit it. Kaen
67. 2:39Waters is practically a household name.
68. 2:41you already know who Kaen Water is.
69. 2:44Like, dude, if you don't know who Kaen
70. 2:45Water is, who are you even? Like, bro,
71. 2:47come on. [clears throat]
72. 2:49But in case you're one of those who
73. 2:51don't know who Kaen Waters is, well, she
74. 2:54was actually one of the helms over at
75. 2:56MoJ for a long time. This brand new XP
76. 2:59division is going to span film and TV,
77. 3:02consumer products, so like merch,
78. 3:04strategic partnerships, so brand
79. 3:06collabs, and live experiences, IRL
80. 3:09events. As we know for Minecraft over
81. 3:11the past few years, there have been more
82. 3:13collabs than ever, more IRL experiences
83. 3:15than ever, and definitely more movies
84. 3:18still waiting on that Netflix TV show,
85. 3:20but more movie than ever before. The
86. 3:22formation of this XP division is going
87. 3:25to formalize investment in pictures.
88. 3:27sold things like film and TV products,
89. 3:30so merch places, so locations that you
90. 3:32can go [music] to, and brand
91. 3:34partnerships. Throughout her career,
92. 3:36Kaen worked at Luca Films, but more
93. 3:38important to us, Mojang. Under her
94. 3:41tenure, Minecraft grew from 350
95. 3:43millunits to 425
96. 3:46and a bunch of the merch taking off.
97. 3:49throwback Thursday to this Minecraft
98. 3:51Live when we got a little bit more
99. 3:52information on Minecraft World, the IRL
100. 3:55theme park that the developers have been
101. 3:57working on over [music] in Chessington.
102. 3:59It's a Bratish theme park where you'll
103. 4:00be able to go over there and be brish
104. 4:02and ride Minecrafty roller coasters and
105. 4:05IRL experiences. It looks like the theme
106. 4:08park is coming along quite nicely. But
107. 4:10if you can remember back to the
108. 4:11beginning when this was announced, there
109. 4:13is meant to be, I think, more than one
110. 4:15theme park across the world in time. The
111. 4:19theme park is one of the big
112. 4:20accomplishments that Caen was able to
113. 4:21lock in for Minecraft and now [music]
114. 4:23she's going to do it for the rest of the
115. 4:25Xbox franchises. Bethesda, you name it.
116. 4:28Now, it's kind of interesting because it
117. 4:30almost seems like Minecraft has been a
118. 4:32little bit of the like the test dummy.
119. 4:34Xbox had this idea for a little bit more
120. 4:36IRL events and Mojang was the candidate
121. 4:39number one. They kicked everything off
122. 4:41it seems like over a year ago at this
123. 4:43point with the villager rescue
124. 4:45experiences. Now it seems like Minecraft
125. 4:47Experience is still traveling the globe
126. 4:48to this day and going strong. They
127. 4:50haven't brought one anywhere near me, so
128. 4:52I haven't been able to check it out
129. 4:54quite yet, but Minecraft Experience is
130. 4:56very much so still a thing. Honestly,
131. 4:59when this thing was first announced, I
132. 5:00was a little bit nervous that it was
133. 5:02going to be like a oneanddone thing, but
134. 5:03that doesn't seem to be the case. Xbox
135. 5:05is [music] keeping it rocking. And they
136. 5:07even moved on from just the villager
137. 5:09experience to a moonlight experience
138. 5:11[music] down in South America as well.
139. 5:13Then, you know, we got that beautiful
140. 5:14theme park that Mojang is doing. And
141. 5:17brand new, this Minecraft Live, we've
142. 5:18got a Minecraft, well, a Minecraft hotel
143. 5:22that they are working on, too. Guys, I'm
144. 5:24going to be honest. Guys, I'm going to
145. 5:26be honest. I don't know who is asking
146. 5:27for a Minecraft hotel, but it does sound
147. 5:29pretty cool. Yeah. So, Minecraft theme
148. 5:31park is getting a Minecraft hotel as
149. 5:33well. This is exactly what Xbox is
150. 5:35trying to do with all of the other
151. 5:37brands that it owns. But I think it
152. 5:39stretches even farther. The new
153. 5:41leadership over at Xbox, their big focus
154. 5:43on more connection to the fans and IRL
155. 5:45events and things. Well, this year we
156. 5:47had that bonus Minecraft live. I feel
157. 5:49like that might be part of their
158. 5:50initiative to bring the games closer to
159. 5:53the people. And a good look into the
160. 5:54future of Minecraft and what might be
161. 5:56changing next. Yes, if you thought two
162. 5:58Minecraft lives was crazy and then this
163. 6:00year you got hit with three Minecraft
164. 6:02lives, I almost feel like three
165. 6:05Minecraft lives or maybe even four, one
166. 6:07for each [music] quarter, well, it might
167. 6:09almost become a norm or a target of Xbox
168. 6:11in this brand new division in the future
169. 6:13with them trying to make every brand
170. 6:16more interactive and connected to the
171. 6:17fan. Well, what better way to connect
172. 6:19with the fans than have even more
173. 6:21events. And with one of those events
174. 6:23being in person, the Minecraft Live that
175. 6:25happened in May, it almost seems like a
176. 6:27return to the golden Minecon events of
177. 6:30old. But hold on a minute. If Asha is
178. 6:33taking Caine Waters and moving her over
179. 6:35to a bigger position over at Xbox, what
180. 6:38the heck happens to Mojang? Well, that
181. 6:41right here is where we get our brand new
182. 6:43helm of Mojang beginning October 19th.
183. 6:46So, 10 days from now, Maria Angelo
184. 6:50Smith. This marks yet another big
185. 6:54leadership change for Mojang this year.
186. 6:56It's wild. These Xbox changes that took
187. 6:58off happening this year, they're
188. 7:00affecting Minecraft and Mojang big time.
189. 7:03Our brand new head of Mojang in
190. 7:06Minecraft is coming over to us from
191. 7:08positions at Facebook and [music]
192. 7:10Reddit. She will officially become the
193. 7:12CEO of Mojang 10 days from now. This was
194. 7:15announced by Asha in a message to Xbox.
195. 7:18[music] Our brand new Mojang CEO. Her
196. 7:20career has revolved around major digital
197. 7:22platforms. You know, Reddit is pretty
198. 7:24big deal. She also worked on tech teams
199. 7:27before joining Reddit. Pretty much right
200. 7:29away, our brand new CEO of Mojang plans
201. 7:32to meet with the developers themselves
202. 7:34and kind of get in the loop with
203. 7:36everything. But with a new CEO now over
204. 7:38at Mojang, what exactly can we expect?
205. 7:41As we know, with the big announcements
206. 7:43that happen at Minecraft Live Fall, this
207. 7:44next year is going to be massive for
208. 7:46Minecraft. It looks like Xbox is really
209. 7:49truly trying to gear up for that by
210. 7:51getting those brand new leadership
211. 7:52roles, those shoes filled a little bit
212. 7:54before the big year of 2027. So,
213. 7:56everyone has time to get used to their
214. 7:58new jobs at MoJ. But what about people
215. 8:00like Jeb and Agnes? Well, don't you
216. 8:03worry because for quite some time now,
217. 8:05Jeb hasn't been the CEO. He's actually
218. 8:08the CCO, chief creative officer, like
219. 8:11the guy with the biggest vision for
220. 8:12Minecraft. And then Agnes is one of like
221. 8:14the leaders for Minecraft as a brand.
222. 8:16and I forget her exact position title,
223. 8:18but she decides what's actually in the
224. 8:21updates. And both of those roles are not
225. 8:23the CEO. So, our biggest people over at
226. 8:25Mojang are still there, and all of the
227. 8:27developers underneath them still there
228. 8:29as well. So, thankfully, our new CEO at
229. 8:32Mojang isn't going to change anything
230. 8:35directly involving updates or things
231. 8:37like that, [music] at least not
232. 8:38immediately. Instead, here big beautiful
233. 8:41news. We know that our new CEO at Mojang
234. 8:44actually her biggest focus here is to
235. 8:46listen to us the [music] community. So
236. 8:48if anything does change in theory the
237. 8:51changes should end up being just more of
238. 8:54things that we want that could end up
239. 8:56reflecting into vanilla gameplay updates
240. 8:58down the road with more community
241. 9:00requested features. But in the short
242. 9:02term immediately for this next winter
243. 9:04drop and maybe even the sift update
244. 9:07probably not too much of a change there.
245. 9:09Looking at our new CEO's repertoire of
246. 9:11experiences building social platforms, I
247. 9:14wonder if Mojang will continue to build
248. 9:16out this whole friend system almost into
249. 9:19a new social platform or something like
250. 9:22it. Maybe not like a large scale
251. 9:24platform or anything like that, but just
252. 9:25an easier way to connect with other
253. 9:27people who play Minecraft and maybe your
254. 9:29friends, people you meet, whatever. But
255. 9:32the biggest change that I foresee under
256. 9:34our new CEO at Mojang and this new XP
257. 9:37division at Xbox is how Minecraft
258. 9:40interacts with us inside of the real
259. 9:42world, aka live events. If you've got a
260. 9:45new leader over at Mojang and that
261. 9:47leader's main job is to listen to the
262. 9:50community and then you've got a new
263. 9:51division at Xbox that main job is
264. 9:54[music] to take Minecraft into the real
265. 9:55world and expand the brand. Well, all
266. 9:57signs point towards the inevitable
267. 9:59biggest request of all time, the return
268. 10:02of Minecon. Directly, what I think we
269. 10:05can expect over the next few years here
270. 10:07is maybe possibly the return of IRL
271. 10:10events that you can actually go to and
272. 10:12interact with Minecraft stuff alongside
273. 10:15the big announcements. Also, just about
274. 10:18a month ago, Mojang partnered with a
275. 10:20creator, Topo, for a big event where
276. 10:22they made some announcements about the
277. 10:24upcoming game drops. I think we'll end
278. 10:26up seeing Mojang partner with more
279. 10:28creatorled events. I do believe in time
280. 10:30in the vanilla game, we'll end up seeing
281. 10:32even more community requested features
282. 10:34dumped into the game thanks to all of
283. 10:36these big changes. And then outside of
284. 10:38just Minecraft, I think other games at
285. 10:40Xbox, other franchises will probably see
286. 10:43an expansion as well. Here's to hoping
287. 10:45that this means Fallout 2. Dude, I need
288. 10:47a new game. I need more Fallout stuff.
289. 10:49It's been way too flipping long. So, a
290. 10:51brand new CEO at Mojang and a brand new
291. 10:54vision at Xbox [music] that is modeled
292. 10:56off of everything Minecraft has been
293. 10:58doing lately. What do you think? Are you
294. 11:00nervous? Are you hype? Your takes,
295. 11:01thoughts, let me know down below. Thank
296. 11:03you all for watching today's video. Hope
297. 11:06it was interesting. Make sure like,
298. 11:07subscribe, and I'll see you tomorrow.
299. 11:09Goodbye. [music] Muchachos.