AI
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before. New technology has emerged, secured billions of dollars in funding, and is poised to disrupt the entire video game industry.
AI is the buzzword of 2023, originally rooted in projects like ChatGPT and Midjourney, but now… literally in every enterprise.
Still, I’ve been down this road too long to believe the hype this time around. Exactly the same language we’ve heard about various other technologies, and basically everything has gone as promised.
VR
Yes, the VR market exists now. No, it’s not as big as the industry as a whole, and we’re not looking to move to VR as the primary way to play games. When the Oculus Rift first came out in 2016 and heralded the future of gaming, the VR market was projected to grow into the hundreds of billions of dollars and become the dominant way to play games within the next five to ten years. I was. We’re approaching our tenth year here: will Meta just squash VR ambitions, and will PSVR 2 actually surpass PSVR 1?
Sure, VR enthusiasts do exist, and tens of millions of VR headsets have been sold. I own two of them, but they’ve been in my closet for years after probably dozens of hours of gameplay compared to the thousands I’ve sunk into PCs and consoles It sat down. VR didn’t “fail” per se, but it didn’t live up to its tremendous hype.
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NFT/web3
Once upon a time, crypto bros and VCs who knew little about video games knew that NFTs, unique digital items that could be sold in-game, were the next great form of microtransactions and the future of the gaming industry.
And they kept talking and saying that you’ll be able to transfer these items between games and so on, all of which the devs said was very silly. The industry is still ahead of the curve, stepping into this concept with things like the Ubisoft Ghost Recon NFT and being zapped quickly. Routinely ridiculed for being the only major gaming figure still pitching the game. Everyone else has abandoned that notion.
Although real blockchain games exist, exorbitantly Admittedly, a terrible, really terrible game that could have made some money at the height of this player frenzy. Pay thousands of dollars for “sewer passes” and other nonsense.everyone else actual The gaming industry has escaped blockchain.
horizon world
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metaverse
Ed Zitron wrote a great article for Business Insider, so we don’t need to write this section.The collapse of the metaverse is very obvious, given that no one wants To tell The words of 2023 that everyone in the tech industry has been shouting for the past few years.
The metaverse had only two ideas. The first was Mark Zuckerberg’s, where he heralded the future of mankind to the point of renaming an entire company (which I think he regrets now). However, his ideas are tied to VR, and as we have established, VR is far from mainstream adoption. terrible Horizon Worlds, the terrestrial VR experience, as the flagship of the concept, was such a terrible product that even Meta employees were forced to log in to their bosses. User is plummeting right now and what do you think he’s eyeing? AI.
The second metaverse was, surprisingly, associated with the second one, web3, NFT, and blockchain. This was the version I read about Macy’s and Disney, and about someone buying virtual real estate in his disoptia in a very empty meta like Decentraland or The Sandbox. This was nothing. It’s always been nothing, and real video games do this better, and millions of players before they even thought a techie invented this idea and gave it a name they stole from Neil Stevenson. We have created a virtual world and community where
AI
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AI
So, forgive me if I’m skeptical of this idea that AI will come like a meteor into the gaming industry and hit it.Yes, I morning I’m more impressed with this tech than the last three items on this list. At the same time, however, these largely predictive AIs, far from being “intelligent,” are clearly overhyped. No, I don’t think the game’s concept his artist will be replaced by Midjourney. No, I don’t think ChatGPT will replace Narrative Teams. No, I doubt a company billed as “his ChatGPT for AAA games” would be able to design his own Fortnite in seconds.
Are there aspects of AI that can be used in game development? Sure, it’s probably more useful than other technologies on this list. This idea does not come to fruition at all. Also, anyone who believes his next GTA will come out of predictive text or (stolen) art generators is far from the reality of the industry. But, of course, it’s nothing new.
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