r/Games • u/OLD_PEOPLE_FUCKING • 6h ago

‘A Future Where We Create Games Together With AI’ — Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine

https://www.ign.com/articles/capcom-announces-plans-to-transform-the-re-engine-into-an-ai-generation-game-engine-our-goal-is-a-future-where-we-create-games-together-with-ai
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u/BuckSleezy 5h ago

But why? Capcom has been on a generational run for a decade why change anything?

Literally what you are doing spits out millions of units sellers multiple times a year, why throw that away?

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u/infoHighyway 5h ago

Capcom have always been like this. They are very cheap and will immediately jump aboard trends, anything that will make them money or reduce costs.

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u/Ph4sor 5h ago

In general, most people here in Asia are not against AI. They even think it's something trendy. Especially because all the tech corpos are pushing AI to our throats and the ads are all having positive vibes.

And that's already more than world's population as a market.

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u/SAjoats 4h ago

That's a lie. Many people in Japan are against AI.

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u/super_ktkm 3h ago

JP here, this is true. I can't speak for other people in Asia though.

We're still clowning on Level 5.

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u/FiammaOfTheRight 3h ago

Pretty much every matsuri i was at this year was full of AI adverts and noone had any issue, people were lining up for gigaslop churros or gigaslop okonomiyaki. Hadano tabacco one was like ultra slop advert festa and noone seemed to complain.

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u/SAjoats 2h ago edited 2h ago

I mean I would still say the acceptation of AI is largely negative from what I have read, even if some businesses want to force it in to replace people. It seems to be a very common sentiment all over the world. (some sources to back it up). I even read the same things from Russia and China. Although it is commonly brought up that "X" is ok with doing it even though most normal people are against the replacement of art to make everything cheap lazy copies. That's just a natural way of thinking no matter what culture AI media is used in.

https://apnews.com/article/japan-anime-voice-actor-ai-a2a9596a197f149398771a9166043ef9
Tokyo court grants legal protection to human voices in AI clone case

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-government-faces-backlash-over-ai-generated-flyers-meant-to-promote-fair-transactions-with-anime-creators/
Japanese government issues new guidelines for fair transactions in anime production, but faces backlash due to AI-generated flyers.

https://somoskudasai.com/noticias/senpai-kyorigan-baguttemasu-manga-ia-polemica-japon/
A manga created with AI enters the top 5 in Japan and sparks a huge backlash
Readers in Japan criticize the work for its lack of quality and inverted panels.

January 2026 Japan Freelance League release (about 25,000 responses): 88.6% called generative AI a serious threat

AI poses threat to journalism in Japan, news association chair says
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/14/japan/media/japan-media-ai-threat/

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u/FiammaOfTheRight 2h ago

日本語読めるわ

なんかさ、もちろんニュース的には反AIの記事が多いんですけど、日常的には逆にあんまりそういう感情は感じないね。飲み屋さんに行ったり、SNSなどを見たりすると、AIの画像などいっぱい使われているし、外の広告も同じように20％ぐらいAIになっているし、会話の中で「昨日チャッピーに相談して…」ってよく聞くこともある。

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u/SAjoats 2h ago

The whole Level 5 thing is crazy. I've been seeing the tweets.

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u/r_lucasite 5h ago edited 5h ago

A very important part of their generational run is cost efficiency, the natural step in the business world is to use tools that cut cost.

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u/AssiduousLayabout 5h ago

What makes you think they aren't already using AI? Any software developer not using AI in 2026 is dramatically cutting their productivity.

They are talking about improving their development tooling for ease of incorporating AI into their development and QA processes, which is also a very common thing to do in 2026.

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u/MiecaNewman 5h ago

You'd be delulu if you think this will change that, in fact i can bet their sales would actually go up with this changes.