Their C-suites are in panic and know fuck all about games but they probably have seen one or two movies and have heard of Netflix. They probably proposed this because it‘s the only thing that makes sense to them in a foreign world that confuses them. It can only fail and will likely churn out AI slop nobody wants to watch.

You have to remember that literally none of the executives making these decisions play video games. Or any games. They literally can’t fundamentally understand that playing a game that you don’t win is still fun, because they are toxic narcissists.

I'm pretty sure they're in liquidation mode right now. Everything at Microsoft is being sacrificed on the altar of AI

It makes sense when you realize they paid bank for a bunch of IPs over the last 5 years and want to squeeze more out of it.

This is just them looking to make codblops the movie.