Sakurai believes increased AI usage is set to lead to unoriginal

Smash Bros and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai has participated in an interview with Japanese news publication Denfaminico Gamer during which the talented video game producer touches on a number of subjects including the growing use of AI in video game development. Mr. Sakurai believes that the increasing use of AI in games design is going to inevitably lead to a slew of unoriginal and unprofitable games flood the market. Here’s what he said via machine translation:

“19,000 is amazing, but I think that number will increase even more from now on. I’m sure of it. That’s because AI will increase the number. 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.

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 . I think there are already a lot of those now.”

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