Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai thinks gen-AI will cause a surge of unoriginal games, but says human creativity can't be replicated
In an interview with Japanese news outlet Denfaminicogamer , Sakurai was asked about his time judging for the Game Designers Awards (a role he recently retired from) and his thoughts on the massive increase of game releases since the awards began.
In an interview with Japanese news outlet Denfaminicogamer , Sakurai was asked about his time judging for the Game Designers Awards (a role he recently retired from) and his thoughts on the massive increase of game releases since the awards began.
The short version
- In 2010, 275 games were published on Steam, whereas more than 19,000 released this year.
- "19,000 is amazing, but I think that number will increase even more from now on," Sakurai said (as translated from Japanese using Google Translate).
- That's because AI will increase the number.
What happened
However, I think most of them will become 'unprofitable titles'. There are too many to keep track of, and it's impossible to understand them all.
Why it matters
"When it comes to things created with AI... or things mass-produced with poor quality, I think most of them will simply be reproductions of systems seen in various other games.
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