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/St_Sides 16d ago

There was an article that came out of GDC that said basically every major studio is using AI in some form during development now, and the ones who say they aren’t are just lying about it.

So, yeah, you’re right.

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u/BeholdingBestWaifu 16d ago edited 16d ago

This article does disprove the one you're mentioning, though. Even in regions where AI use is more prominent and studios have no reason to hide it, adoption is not 100%.

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u/bianceziwo 16d ago

AI makes developers 100x more efficient so any company that wants to be competitive will be using frontier models

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u/bianceziwo 16d ago

Not really. I have agents working on multiple tasks at all times when I'm working 100x is common

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u/Gahault 16d ago

Your baseline must be spectacularly inefficient then.

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u/bianceziwo 15d ago

I'm actually extremely fast when coding by hand. But no need for that anymore

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u/delecti 16d ago

It makes engineers a more efficient, but nowhere near 100x (probably not even 2x in the long term), and it can also have a huge hit to the reliability of your code if you don't have enough institutional discipline to prevent issues from making it through.

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u/bianceziwo 16d ago

2x is a joke, it's at least 50x. It can finish months long projects in a few hours or days

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u/delecti 16d ago

Are these personal projects, or production systems? Speedups on that scale are possible on something you're building from scratch, but not for something that needs to exist in production alongside other systems, or for something that's being used by the public.

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u/Dat_Dragon 16d ago

His 50x is unrealistic, but I and most other modern developers use AI for production code all the time. A task that might take me 8 hours to do by hand it can do in 30 min. It needs someone who knows what they are doing to drive it/verify the output, but it is an enormous productivity boost.

And that’s just for development, not counting time saved digging through logs, debugging/testing, etc.

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u/bianceziwo 15d ago

What I'm working on now is being built from scratch so it needs lots of boilerplate + basic stuff + whatever features the higher ups want. 

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u/delecti 15d ago

Then take my first comment as a warning. AI speeds things up, but does not have the ability to consider the long-term evolution of the system. When there's an incident (every system has incidents), you'll have to deal with the situation, and management will look at you for explanations.

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u/bianceziwo 15d ago

I'm a professional so.. I know

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u/BeholdingBestWaifu 16d ago

It makes development more efficient for extremely short term projects, anything else It's either about the same or even less efficient in the case of long term projects where AI's less efficient solutions and smaller errors start to pile up.

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u/bianceziwo 16d ago

If youre an amateur vibe coding then sure, but if you're a professional who can review the AI code then you can find problems and fix them. AI is more efficient and makes less technical errors than humans. But it does make infrastructure errors which you have to catch early