Nvidia reveals DLSS 5 , essentially applies AI filter to games in real time.

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CaptainExplosion said:

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I hate to say it, but I think in the long run Nintendo will cave. 

At their heart, Nintendo loves being a company with smaller teams being able to make games quickly and affordably (this is the heart of the Famicom and Super Famicom days). I think they long for those days, I don't think they like what game development is today, they just tolerate it because they have to. 

Generative AI also kind of solves the "graphics problem" for them, it will inevitably allow you to take a lower end base image and let the AI make a higher end visual result and in a way it kind of makes the graphics side of the game less important. Anyone/everyone will just have graphics that punch way above their weight class. 

Unfortunately characters artists and modelers will be pared down, but the ugly truth to that is that saves Nintendo money. 

I do think they will feel bad about certain elements of AI, but ultimately cave. It's not like Nintendo is a GPU supplier anyway, the writing is on the wall here, likely future "Nvidia GPUs" will become more like NPU/CUDA core driven devices anyway. Nintendo can't be some lone bastion of keeping traditional rendering going forever when none of the other major players in the industry are. 

I do think they will put up a token fight at first and resist for a while, but ultimately they will cave as other big companies standardize this kind of workflow. 

Then AI really is destroying the economy like I said it would. People will be too poor to afford new products from pretty much any company. Thanks for nothing, AI bros., you're sending us towards another Great Depression.

Such concerns are completely valid, I'm not advocating for this direction just stating that's where I see things shaking out.