Is Xbox endorsing use of generative AI to make games? A new memo written by leader Asha Sharma certainly seems to suggest so.
Or, if 3 people can make a game with no large teams needed, no distribution chain, and no manufacturing, why do we need a corporation taking a share of the profits again?
Seems like the 3 people with the good idea for a game can just do it now.
Question 1: With what money will consumers buy such a product?
Question 2: Will that product cost less money because less “human”* effort went into making it?
Question 3: Will the product be free because ownership of the product is ambiguous because the outputs were not created by humans?
*Humans is in quotes because AI effort is human effort that’s been stolen, both in the data used to train the AI and in the resources used to train and use the AI (utilities and so on plus the environmental impact).
You don’t get to say in one singular breath that you stole a bunch of stuff, used it without consent to make new stuff, and then got rid of all the people who make the stuff and now you want us to purchase your stuff for $90 when you and other companies aren’t paying people a living wage and nobody has any money but like 4% of the populace to buy said stuff.
The more I see these headlines, the more I’m realizing that all companies are moving towards vibe coded apps. Is they are just going to be vibe coding, then why shouldn’t we?
And those generated worlds will have a hundredth of the “interesting stuff density” as ones the small team had time to thoughtfully construct by hand. It’s like the tomatoes and blueberries they bred to be bigger and getting the same amount of flavor as the old smaller ones stretched out with a lot of water.
What a surprise. She turned out to be exactly what people expected her to be when they saw her AI background. At least those who didn’t fall for the dumb PR campaign when she first got the position trying to sell her image as one of the fellow gamers.
Another nail in the coffin. I am so glad that Id Software and others reformed up independently, away from these vampires. The future of video games is definitely not with Microsoft
I don’t even care at this point. I was used to buying all the consoles eventually each generation, but if Sony and Microsoft are each given a monopoly on all games (by not including a disc drive and only supporting their own digital store), I just won’t buy hardware or games on either platform in the future. I am perfectly capable of pirating, or even giving up the hobby altogether…
Retro gamers already been ahead of the curve, and been more focused on either getting old hardware or new hardware to play their old stuff. We will be fine if retro gamers have been fine playing through old catalogs.
Next generarion will just be a SlopBox (or eXcrementBox) built on slop hardware, to run slop games, for slop bros…who’d have slop play for them.
It’s so mind numbingly stupid from start to finish, while laying off anyone who could hope to fix anything. The brand is already brain dead, but they just won’t quit pumping IPs into the corpse.
A small team of human plus a huge datacenter trained on stolen resources. It’s like someone claiming they can assemble a car solo but didn’t disclose they also use multiple giant machine and a factory to do it. The factory is impressive, but the person doing it is insignificant, because that factory isn’t build by the one person, the car too.
So the game M$ made should mostly attribute to AI, the dev is insignificant. It’s not Halo Studio, it’s Copilot Studio that would be making your next Halo.
But who will play them on what hardware and who owns it? Huh?
Not me, and not me!
Don’t worry if they are using copilot they won’t get past the first compile error as it loops through the same three troubleshooting suggestions and forgetting the code it wrote and needing you to send it again.
These corporate types still don’t get it. Literally no one has put in critical thought beyond “numbers should get bigger”.
There will be no markets if humans do not make money, en masse, to keep them afloat.
You should’ve stopped at no “critical thought”. It really is “numbers should get bigger” and nothing more
A small indie team will be able to pull triple A quality and you guys are being babies about it. The writing is on the wall, anyone keeping abreast knows it. Sota models can easily use Godot, build low poly models and animations right now. It’s going to be nuts in a year or two.
“Please daddy, bring me back to the before times when decompilation took 2 years and Ubisoft had a giant moat.” Pathetic.
Non-AI software companies embracing AI-generated code must be the dumbest business decision ever. What if you’re successful? What if the robots get to the point where they can generate games on demand? Why will anyone buy your crap games when they can just go and generate their own slop on the spot?
Did the bots build her teeth?
What the!!
