Chrkeller said:
Soundwave said:
The number of studios willing to make "big games" will decline and the number of studios will to take a risk and make a new IP with a top budget will decline. The only Japanese studio for example that could compete in the space of making games for $400+ million a pop would be like Nintendo and they're too smart to get caught up in spending that kind of money. Capcom, Square-Enix, all these other companies will get priced out even Sony won't give their Japanese teams that kind of money to spend.
And the truth is these games are not even close to photorealism either. If 1 billion still gets you a game that looks fairly cartoony, what is the cost to go well beyond that? $4 billion dollars? Who is financing that exactly? And that of course I assume is still only going to cost $70? lol.
Thirdly, any kind of setup where these companies are going to fire actual humans in favor of AI is something I will never support. They want to do that, I will not buy those games, simple as that. Ray tracing already exists if a developer doesn't want to do baked lighting that hasn't brought budgets down at all. If we're talking the automation of the actual development process, I'm not going to support the wholesale destruction of thousands of peoples' livelihoods for something stupid like having better lighting in a game. Anyone naive enough to think that will only be limited to industries like film/TV/games is kidding themselves.
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AI is coming and yes it will reduce need for a number of workers. Part of life. You don't think computers and automation hasn't already put a lot of people out of work?
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This is not remotely the same thing and it's not just going to be a "few workers". An AI that can reason and create can replace almost all jobs eventually.
Thinking that is a great solution is like thinking "my house is a bit cold, guess I'll light my curtains on fire". Yes, you will get warmth ... temporarily. You're not going to like what happens next though.
