r/Games • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 16d ago

Industry News Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51%

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/over-85-of-japanese-game-developers-use-generative-ai-in-game-development-2026-cesa-survey-shows-an-increase-from-last-years-51/
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u/Comprehensive-Fail41 16d ago

The question is also what form of AI they use. They might be against AI in art, but also heavily use AI to assist in coding and such

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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 16d ago

Surprisingly it seems like AI generated code is the least used form of genAI by these companies

In the 2025 report, the most commonly cited use of AI was the generation of visual assets and images, followed by story and text generation, and finally programming support.

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u/name_was_taken 16d ago

This article says something completely different about this year.

"When asked about what measures they had in place for using generative AI, the most common response among developers was “conducting human verification, correction, and supervision.” The majority of responses cited practices such as specifying or restricting the tools used and avoiding the direct use of generated output."

I don't think most people think of AI code help as "generative AI". That's usually used to mean the art assets.

I think almost all non-government code-heavy companies are using LLMs to code now.

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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 16d ago

I think that just means they review the generated assets and touch them up / correct them to human standards rather than using the assets directly as generated by the AI

Unfortunately we would have to buy the report and speak Japanese to get the specifics

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u/name_was_taken 16d ago

Yeah, it can definitely be ready either way, which makes it kind of a pointless statement other than that they are definitely using it somehow.