Is Xbox endorsing use of generative AI to make games? A new memo written by leader Asha Sharma certainly seems to suggest so.
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.
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
But who will play them on what hardware and who owns it? Huh?
Not me, and not me!
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.
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.
Did the bots build her teeth?
What the!!
Meanwhile, her parent company (which just removed 25% of its workforce and replaced them with AI), is experiencing a severe service outage.
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outlook-outage-email-teams-6376045281feb430c0b923e3a4b251c2
Probably all the Xbox users bring able to predownload GTA6 at suspiciously almost the exact time the outage started.
We can fire so many people!
“Our plagiarism machine is going to be so good at innovation!”
This really makes me feel like she has no idea what game development is like. I’m mean, I’ve never been on a game dev team but I have read at least one fucking book about it. Even I know it’s not the toil that slows down game development. It’s all the thought work; creating stories, unique environments, fun encounters, and even just the way the game feels to players. Oh, and then making all that work together, which AI fucking sucks at.
Scope creep.
Oh, it’s lots of coding! But lots and lots of tweaking, fine tuning and so on.
AI doesn’t seem to know how to do that, it just blorbs out a functionality that isn’t that tweakable.
Sure this is going to save xbox
I mean, them crashing so hard a better company picks up all the great IP from them on fire sale is a type of saving Xbox
Monkey paw: Amazon buys it all, and hires the engineers behind the Google Stadia, merges the system with Luna, and starts releasing Halo, CoD, Forza, and more, exclusively on their streaming hardware, requiring a prime subscription to play (including single player), and accounts without prime for more than 6 months have their saved data deleted (no way to export). Upgrade for only an extra $7.99 a month for FHD resolution and priority slots to play during peak times.
Except I specified “better” company. That would 100% not be better. Try again genie
never gonna happen of course but imagine the goldmine for human creativity if all the ips they’ve been hoarding went to the public domain…
At least with Nintendo, we have a greater chance of Banjo-Threeie, Conker 2, and other Rare properties resurfacing.
On track to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
Hypothetically, even if that is the case, why should I buy it?
It used to be that there was at least some moral argument against piracy, in that it was worth supporting the human beings who make things.
But in a world where everything is made almost entirely by AI which have trained on scraped and stolen data, what argument is left?
None. There wasn’t one before, but now there REALLY isn’t one since the “content” is all pirated by “AI” already
It also could do the work of a dozens of CEOs.
And those worlds will all look samey and bland.
With the ai “piss filter”
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?
“Leave vision to the visionaries and idealism to those who are ideal. Now you too can leave it all behind along with your critical thinking faculties for an exiting new career as an LLM nanny and slop-conductor! Who cares if all the actual people you fucked over to get there wouldn’t piss on your house if it was on fire? You don’t need a house. You just need a laptop, a Starbucks with free wifi and more tokens. Don’t worry about working in public. Nobody passing by will understand what you’re working on, and neither will you.”
