MINECRAFT JUST GOT ANOTHER NEW BOSS… WITH BIG NEW 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 2 that
49. 1:54mirrors 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.
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 to, and brand partnerships.
91. 3:35Throughout her career, Kaen worked at
92. 3:37Luca Films, but more important to us,
93. 3:40Mojang. Under her tenure, Minecraft grew
94. 3:42from 350 millunits to 425
95. 3:46and a bunch of the merch taking off.
96. 3:49throwback Thursday to this Minecraft
97. 3:51Live when we got a little bit more
98. 3:52information on Minecraft World, the IRL
99. 3:55theme park that the developers have been
100. 3:57working on over in Chessington. It's a
101. 3:59Bratish theme park where you'll be able
102. 4:01to go over there and be brish and ride
103. 4:03Minecrafty roller coasters and IRL
104. 4:05experiences. It looks like the theme
105. 4:08park is coming along quite nicely. But
106. 4:10if you can remember back to the
107. 4:11beginning when this was announced, there
108. 4:13is meant to be, I think, more than one
109. 4:15theme park across the world in time. The
110. 4:19theme park is one of the big
111. 4:20accomplishments that Caen was able to
112. 4:21lock in for Minecraft and now she's
113. 4:23going to do it for the rest of the Xbox
114. 4:25franchises. Bethesda, you name it. Now,
115. 4:28it's kind of interesting because it
116. 4:30almost seems like Minecraft has been a
117. 4:32little bit of the like the test dummy.
118. 4:34Xbox had this idea for a little bit more
119. 4:36IRL events and Mojang was the candidate
120. 4:39number one. They kicked everything off
121. 4:41it seems like over a year ago at this
122. 4:43point with the villager rescue
123. 4:45experiences. Now it seems like Minecraft
124. 4:47Experience is still traveling the globe
125. 4:48to this day and going strong. They
126. 4:50haven't brought one anywhere near me, so
127. 4:52I haven't been able to check it out
128. 4:54quite yet, but Minecraft Experience is
129. 4:56very much so still a thing. Honestly,
130. 4:59when this thing was first announced, I
131. 5:00was a little bit nervous that it was
132. 5:02going to be like a oneanddone thing, but
133. 5:03that doesn't seem to be the case. Xbox
134. 5:05is keeping it rocking. And they even
135. 5:08moved on from just the villager
136. 5:09experience to a moonlight experience
137. 5:11down in South America as well. Then, you
138. 5:14know, we got that beautiful theme park
139. 5:15that Mojang is doing. And brand new,
140. 5:17this Minecraft Live, we've got a
141. 5:19Minecraft, well, a Minecraft hotel that
142. 5:22they are working on, too. Guys, I'm
143. 5:24going to be honest. Guys, I'm going to
144. 5:26be honest. I don't know who is asking
145. 5:27for a Minecraft hotel, but it does sound
146. 5:29pretty cool. Yeah. So, Minecraft theme
147. 5:31park is getting a Minecraft hotel as
148. 5:33well. This is exactly what Xbox is
149. 5:35trying to do with all of the other
150. 5:37brands that it owns. But I think it
151. 5:39stretches even farther. The new
152. 5:41leadership over at Xbox, their big focus
153. 5:43on more connection to the fans and IRL
154. 5:45events and things. Well, this year we
155. 5:47had that bonus Minecraft live. I feel
156. 5:49like that might be part of their
157. 5:50initiative to bring the games closer to
158. 5:53the people. And a good look into the
159. 5:54future of Minecraft and what might be
160. 5:56changing next. Yes, if you thought two
161. 5:58Minecraft lives was crazy and then this
162. 6:00year you got hit with three Minecraft
163. 6:02lives, I almost feel like three
164. 6:05Minecraft lives or maybe even four, one
165. 6:07for each quarter, well, it might almost
166. 6:09become a norm or a target of Xbox in
167. 6:12this brand new division in the future
168. 6:13with them trying to make every brand
169. 6:16more interactive and connected to the
170. 6:17fan. Well, what better way to connect
171. 6:19with the fans than have even more
172. 6:21events. And with one of those events
173. 6:23being in person, the Minecraft Live that
174. 6:25happened in May, it almost seems like a
175. 6:27return to the golden Minecon events of
176. 6:30old. But hold on a minute. If Asha is
177. 6:33taking Caine Waters and moving her over
178. 6:35to a bigger position over at Xbox, what
179. 6:38the heck happens to Mojang? Well, that
180. 6:41right here is where we get our brand new
181. 6:43helm of Mojang beginning October 19th.
182. 6:46So, 10 days from now, Maria Angelo
183. 6:50Smith. This marks yet another big
184. 6:54leadership change for Mojang this year.
185. 6:56It's wild. These Xbox changes that took
186. 6:58off happening this year, they're
187. 7:00affecting Minecraft and Mojang big time.
188. 7:03Our brand new head of Mojang in
189. 7:06Minecraft is coming over to us from
190. 7:08positions at Facebook and Reddit. She
191. 7:11will officially become the CEO of Mojang
192. 7:1310 days from now. This was announced by
193. 7:16Asha in a message to Xbox. Our brand new
194. 7:19Mojang CEO. Her career has revolved
195. 7:21around major digital platforms. You
196. 7:23know, Reddit is pretty big deal. She
197. 7:25also worked on tech teams before joining
198. 7:28Reddit. Pretty much right away, our
199. 7:30brand new CEO of Mojang plans to meet
200. 7:32with the developers themselves and kind
201. 7:35of get in the loop with everything. But
202. 7:36with a new CEO now over at Mojang, what
203. 7:39exactly can we expect? As we know, with
204. 7:42the big announcements that happen at
205. 7:43Minecraft Live Fall, this next year is
206. 7:45going to be massive for Minecraft. It
207. 7:47looks like Xbox is really truly trying
208. 7:49to gear up for that by getting those
209. 7:51brand new leadership roles, those shoes
210. 7:53filled a little bit before the big year
211. 7:55of 2027. So, everyone has time to get
212. 7:57used to their new jobs at MoJ. But what
213. 8:00about people like Jeb and Agnes? Well,
214. 8:02don't you worry because for quite some
215. 8:04time now, Jeb hasn't been the CEO. He's
216. 8:07actually the CCO, chief creative
217. 8:10officer, like the guy with the biggest
218. 8:12vision for Minecraft. And then Agnes is
219. 8:14one of like the leaders for Minecraft as
220. 8:16a brand. and I forget her exact position
221. 8:18title, but she decides what's actually
222. 8:20in the updates. And both of those roles
223. 8:23are not the CEO. So, our biggest people
224. 8:25over at Mojang are still there, and all
225. 8:27of the developers underneath them still
226. 8:29there as well. So, thankfully, our new
227. 8:31CEO at Mojang isn't going to change
228. 8:34anything directly involving updates or
229. 8:37things like that, at least not
230. 8:38immediately. Instead, here big beautiful
231. 8:41news. We know that our new CEO at Mojang
232. 8:44actually her biggest focus here is to
233. 8:46listen to us the community. So if
234. 8:48anything does change in theory the
235. 8:51changes should end up being just more of
236. 8:54things that we want that could end up
237. 8:56reflecting into vanilla gameplay updates
238. 8:58down the road with more community
239. 9:00requested features. But in the short
240. 9:02term immediately for this next winter
241. 9:04drop and maybe even the sift update
242. 9:07probably not too much of a change there.
243. 9:09Looking at our new CEO's repertoire of
244. 9:11experiences building social platforms, I
245. 9:14wonder if Mojang will continue to build
246. 9:16out this whole friend system almost into
247. 9:19a new social platform or something like
248. 9:22it. Maybe not like a large scale
249. 9:24platform or anything like that, but just
250. 9:25an easier way to connect with other
251. 9:27people who play Minecraft and maybe your
252. 9:29friends, people you meet, whatever. But
253. 9:32the biggest change that I foresee under
254. 9:34our new CEO at Mojang and this new XP
255. 9:37division at Xbox is how Minecraft
256. 9:40interacts with us inside of the real
257. 9:42world, aka live events. If you've got a
258. 9:45new leader over at Mojang and that
259. 9:47leader's main job is to listen to the
260. 9:50community and then you've got a new
261. 9:51division at Xbox that main job is to
262. 9:54take Minecraft into the real world and
263. 9:56expand the brand. Well, all signs point
264. 9:58towards the inevitable biggest request
265. 10:00of all time, the return of Minecon.
266. 10:04Directly, what I think we can expect
267. 10:05over the next few years here is maybe
268. 10:08possibly the return of IRL events that
269. 10:11you can actually go to and interact with
270. 10:13Minecraft stuff alongside the big
271. 10:16announcements. Also, just about a month
272. 10:18ago, Mojang partnered with a creator,
273. 10:20Topo, for a big event where they made
274. 10:23some announcements about the upcoming
275. 10:24game drops. I think we'll end up seeing
276. 10:26Mojang partner with more creatorled
277. 10:29events. I do believe in time in the
278. 10:31vanilla game, we'll end up seeing even
279. 10:33more community requested features dumped
280. 10:35into the game thanks to all of these big
281. 10:36changes. And then outside of just
282. 10:38Minecraft, I think other games at Xbox,
283. 10:41other franchises will probably see an
284. 10:43expansion as well. Here's to hoping that
285. 10:46this means Fallout 2. Dude, I need a new
286. 10:48game. I need more Fallout stuff. It's
287. 10:49been way too flipping long. So, a brand
288. 10:52new CEO at Mojang and a brand new vision
289. 10:54at Xbox that is modeled off of
290. 10:56everything Minecraft has been doing
291. 10:58lately. What do you think? Are you
292. 11:00nervous? Are you hype? Your takes,
293. 11:01thoughts, let me know down below. Thank
294. 11:03you all for watching today's video. Hope
295. 11:06it was interesting. Make sure like,
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297. 11:09Goodbye. Muchachos.