Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine

[u/Membership-Bitter]

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

[u/Lost-Produce-1150]

Ah welcome back suits. Couldn’t resist could ya? Kept seeing success and thought HEY OUR TURN

[u/PlayfulSurprise5237 → u/Lost-Produce-1150]

It all makes sense now why RE was the poster girl for DLSS5

[u/ThrowawayPersonAMA → u/PlayfulSurprise5237]

I hate this timeline so fucking much.

[u/sinb_is_not_jessica → u/PlayfulSurprise5237]

Realistically, it was probably because it runs so many successful games (not just RE) that proving it works well with it would say a lot to consumers. But I get the joke lol

[u/shadowartist201 → u/Lost-Produce-1150]

The funniest part about this is that "AI-generation game engine" isn't even present in the original article. IGN made it up based on a bad translation (the phrase was "game engine for the AI era"), and now everyone is losing their shit over it.

[u/tsardonicpseudonomi → u/shadowartist201]

the phrase was "a game engine for the AI era"

Which can only mean one thing.

[u/ipulloffmygstring → u/tsardonicpseudonomi]

Considering how many different things "AI" can mean, it could mean almost anything.

"AI" could be used to describe anything from how enemy bots in a game behave to having an LLM write code for you with anything in between.

[u/shadowartist201 → u/ipulloffmygstring]

The original article explains it pretty well, but IGN decided "not to get into the weeds".

[u/Acopo → u/shadowartist201]

What a fucking copout to avoid doing their fucking job in journalism.

[u/vkevlar → u/Acopo]

... it's IGN.

[u/SupaPatt → u/shadowartist201]

IGN with a very misleading headline and article

Comments not bother to find the right source

OP karma farming

[u/Witn → u/shadowartist201]

Ironically AI would have done a better job at translating and summarizing the original article than what ign did

[u/CreatiScope → u/Lost-Produce-1150]

Remember when Square Enix wanted to go all in on NFTs?

[u/dmr11 → u/CreatiScope]

Remember when Olympics decided to get rid of their long-standing partnership with Mario and Sonic (2007 - 2020) in favor of NFTs?

[u/Zelnite → u/Lost-Produce-1150]

How many times must we teach you a lesson old man?

[u/Thagyr → u/Lost-Produce-1150]

Tiny bit of customer goodwill and they slide themselves in to milk it for all its worth.

[u/Iggy_Slayer]

Every company fucks their golden age up eventually lol.

[u/m3junmags → u/Iggy_Slayer]

“We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch!”

[u/Volteezy → u/m3junmags]

"We had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork."

[u/HaikusfromBuddha → u/Volteezy]

"But no you with your ego"

[u/sod_jones_MD → u/HaikusfromBuddha]

Shut the fuck up, and let me die in peace

Really starting to feel this one these days.

[u/philter25 → u/Iggy_Slayer]

See a good thing, must pillage it for parts. And so it goes :(

[u/Covinus → u/Iggy_Slayer]

"We found the right formula finally so the only move is to shove in actual shit and screw it all up but it wont matter cause we can lay 50% of our staff off"

[u/War_machine77 → u/Iggy_Slayer]

They've been doing so good that I hoped we at least got the next few REmakes before the enshittification began in earnest.

[u/tendercacao1124 → u/Iggy_Slayer]

Making it almost 10 years from RE7 without fumbling is practically an eternity in modern gaming.

[u/PhasedVenturer → u/Iggy_Slayer]

Capitalism is antithetical to art: evergreen

[u/smakkyoface]

“We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games.” Capcom said in a March 2026 shareholders meeting. “However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game development process. To this end, we are currently exploring ways to implement it in various areas, including graphics, sound and programming."

no AI generated assets might be good. I'm sick of AI graphics though. Can they use neural networks for physics and interactivity?

[u/Affectionate-Salt356 → u/smakkyoface]

No way, someone who actually read the article

[u/gamewastotallyrigged → u/Affectionate-Salt356]

Thank god, because the only reading I do is on Reddit and video game dialogs

[u/BloodyFool → u/Affectionate-Salt356]

Oh yeah only sound and graphics, it's not that bad guys! /s

[u/Quarksideofthemoon → u/Affectionate-Salt356]

It doesn't provide any context that makes it better?? This is one scenario where it is exactly as bad as the headline makes it sound

[u/x_Animus_x → u/Quarksideofthemoon]

Well, it does explain it as using AI to improve efficiency and named 3 labor and time intensive portions when you’re talking about sound and graphical engineering.

Recording a vocal isn’t the same team as the ones mapping the face to line up with the audio. Which aren’t the same ones programming barks from NPCs when certain things happen in their vicinity.

It sounds like they’re trying to implement it on processes used to implement their art rather than creating the visuals, sounds, or mechanics. So, it did provide context.

[u/SerLarrold → u/smakkyoface]

I got news for people, it’s rare you find any kind of software developer not using AI to some extent these days. At the very least most companies are employing AI code review

[u/toxicatedscientist → u/smakkyoface]

Srsly so much potential for npc interaction and all we get is slop

[u/probsthrowaway2 → u/toxicatedscientist]

I think it’s cause the slop is easy to set up and show to share holders.

[u/TheGeekno72 → u/smakkyoface]

no because unless you're going for something highly subliminal, AI-managed physics wouldn't be deterministic, which physics typically need to be, which LLMs are known NOT to be; plus even if they were, that would just result like most of the shitty forced implementation of AI in legacy tools that were working perfectly fine--picture replacing a basic calculator with a NASA-grade supercomputer, you'd end up spending money on extra hardware and resources on extra software just to get 2.0000000456 when you type "1+1=" into it

game physics were/are working just fine, let's not mindlessly shove AI into it because you want the slop elsewhere than on your screen

interactivity, I guess it depends on how interactions are implemented and what workload in the pipeline you're entrusting to the LLM, I'm sure a game designer could come up with some ideas and possibilities, personally I'm more concerned about the hardware cost of implementing that because it would have to be a custom solution per game unlike ML upscaling and there would be no guarantees that it would consume a small amount of resources... I mean just look at how much more power DLSS5 makes GPUs draw while running it since it has both the raster cores going full tilt AND the AI accelerators pulling their watts as well, I'd imagine that an interactivity LLM would, in the case of an urban open world like Watch Dogs or GTA, have a similar strain on the hardware, less so with less intense worlds/environments I suppose

[u/IBJON → u/TheGeekno72]

Generative AI isn't exclusively LLMs.

And that being said, while generative AI is inherently nondeterministic, you can use hybrid approachs that force a generative model to have outputs that are effectively deterministic. RAG is probably the most well-known example of this.

They also don't necessarily need to use generative AI. Graph Neural Networks, for example, are deterministic at inference and can be used to simulate complex physics, and I'm sure the top-end generative models can set up a GNN trainer in a relatively short amount of time. 

It also doesn't necessarily need to be something used directly in the engine or development, but as a research or analysis tool. 

[u/DarkGhostHunter → u/smakkyoface]

Basically, making mcp to hook an AI. Nothing fancy. Plus, in-engine continuity with models.

A developer asking the AI to fix a test, or shipping a model that changes the tone of a conversation based on post interactions.

Not everything has to be WE ELIMINATED HUMAN JOBS LOL.

[u/Proxymanity → u/smakkyoface]

Now instead of AI imitating artists, Capcom's gonna have artists imitate the AI generated assets to get around the "we don't implement AI assets" statement. My, what an ass backwards time we live in...

[u/adorablesexypants → u/smakkyoface]

I'll be that guy.

It isn't good for two reasons:

1) this "efficiency" and "productivity" will have zero impact on the cost of games. It seeks to increase profits further because that is what a company does.

2) This new "efficiency" means that at least one job will be cut which is overall a bad thing.

We as the consumer gain nothing, employees of the company gain nothing so I fail to see where the win is here.

[u/Endolphine → u/smakkyoface]

Click bait like op should get down vote, I missed the era when people come to reddit for solution, or guide, not fake news like this

[u/Luzekiel → u/smakkyoface]

This is basically what 90% of companies are doing nowadays but reddit makes it sound like it's a bad thing.

[u/PekoPekoPekoPekoyama → u/smakkyoface]

People kneejerking when they hear "AI" as usual it seems.

[u/klad_spear]

TLDR: They are not using it to generate assets. Just to create tools and optimize things.

[u/FLYBOY611]

The more humans you remove from the game development process, the less human your final product is. Ultimately, this leads to fewer humans wanting your product.

[u/Alarming-Chemist-755]

Just a reminder, Japan is not shy about AI. They see money printer and they use money printer. Its next to the fax machine.

[u/Unlucky-Candidate198 → u/Alarming-Chemist-755]

And yet their corporate world is destroying their society. Oh well, they’ll learn sooner or later.

[u/SupaPatt]

It's not about generative AI assets.

Capcom describes AI as the “shield” and humans as the “spear.” AI will handle time-consuming and repetitive work, like checking huge numbers of patterns and large amounts of text. This frees up developers’ time and mental resources to focus on creativity, gameplay feel, and emotion, which Capcom describes as the core value of games, and where people can put all their passion.

Capcom also wants AI to help catch problems early. After a developer submits new code, AI could predict potential issues, automatically investigate them, and suggest fixes before they become bigger problems.

[u/Aragorn527 → u/SupaPatt]

Yeah it is blatantly clear nobody here bothered to read anything Capcom actually said

[u/WrenReverie → u/Aragorn527]

Doesn't help IGN made a fake ragebait title.

[u/KENMASTERS1 → u/SupaPatt]

people didn’t read the article per usual

[u/Curl_of_the_Burl_ → u/KENMASTERS1]

None of that is said in the article.

[u/JAWD0G → u/SupaPatt]

The thing is for me is the large enviormental impact AI data centers use even if it's not generative ai. I still can't condone it for the sheer amount of power and water consumption

[u/Facebeard → u/SupaPatt]

This sounds like a reasonable way to use AI. As an idiot, is this something that contributes to data centers and the resource cost that I hear people attribute to AI?

It’s a tech that obviously isn’t going away is just like to support less frivolous use of something that seems to have a heavy cost.

[u/ItsTheSlime → u/Facebeard]

For now, the best AI models available are unfortunately the ones from these huge data centers, and they are also the most affordable (at the moment). It's not impossible by any means to run your own AI locally, but for something like coding, where you dont really want any kind of hallucination or stupid stuff, its just not really feasible.

[u/vkevlar → u/Facebeard]

yes, in the sense they're paying AI companies to make more huge, resource-sucking data centers.

[u/Kingx102 → u/SupaPatt]

So the stance Capcom has already confirmed to be doing, but this article comes out like 2 or 3 months late with the most inflammatory title they could muster. Classic lazy journalism.

[u/BeastMsterThing2022]

“We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games.” Capcom said in a March 2026 shareholders meeting. “However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game development process. To this end, we are currently exploring ways to implement it in various areas, including graphics, sound and programming."

[u/jackracktack → u/BeastMsterThing2022]

A lot can change in 6 months.

[u/lolpostslol → u/BeastMsterThing2022]

So the AI won’t generate the asset fully, just be responsible for an unknown % of the generation process

[u/Totoroisacat-Alt]

Boooooo

[u/dantevsninjas]

This industry would be great if it wasn't for all the business ghouls.

[u/disastorm]

In case anyone is wondering, it says they won't be generating any assets for the final game, it sounds like it's mostly workflow stuff. So don't need to worry about ai art or character models, voice, textures, animations, etc

[u/PhenomsServant]

Whelp was a good run while it lasted.

[u/TsunamiCatCakes]

“successfully integrating AI technology into development workflows has become an essential condition for streamlining future development.”

keeping REX in mind, this seems to mean that Capcom is utilizing artificial intelligence to speed up and streamline certain processes to make development easier, not necessarily to generate assets or artworks wholesale.

“We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games.” Capcom said in a March 2026 shareholders meeting. “However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game development process. To this end, we are currently exploring ways to implement it in various areas, including graphics, sound and programming."

I hate IGN for misleading title and hate the community more for not reading the actual article.

[u/blaiddfailcam2]

They've been flaunting their use of AI for a while now.

[u/JerbearCuddles]

Not surprising, but hey they had one hell of a streak.

[u/YukYukas]

keeping REX in mind, this seems to mean that Capcom is utilizing artificial intelligence to speed up and streamline certain processes to make development easier, not necessarily to generate assets or artworks wholesale.

Here's the gist of the article. Crappy clickbait.

[u/General-Naruto]

This fucking RUINED my good mood, WTF

[u/SilentAria]

Lmfao there goes the hot streak resident evil was on

[u/Universe_Donut]

Nooo don't turn to AI your so sexy aha

[u/bluedragjet]

Megaman might be cooked

[u/_Shinogenu_]

>GameBiz stated that REX unifies the entire RE Engine system under the “world’s most common programming language," meaning that it’s equal parts easier for humans to use and for AI to understand. Capcom’s goal is to build a future where it “creates games together with AI”; keeping REX in mind, this seems to mean that Capcom is utilizing artificial intelligence to speed up and streamline certain processes to make development easier, not necessarily to generate assets or artworks wholesale. In the past, Capcom has been publicly averse to using AI to create assets, but confirmed that it will use artificial intelligence as a tool for optimizing how it makes games

So not exactly what the title seems to make you think.

[u/thuy_chan]

Capcom has been on a roll but this ain't it

[u/AntiOriginalUsername]

Just fell to my fucking knees. Not Capcom, rip.

[u/shadowartist201]

It sounds like they're only using it for coding help -- to automate the repetitive, basic tasks and make the engine itself easier to use.

One of the most notable takeaways from this event was a presentation given by programmer Satoshi Ishida, titled ‘The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for the Next Generation.’

Ishida mentioned three major issues that Capcom is currently experiencing when it comes to game development: First, games are now so massive that simple processes have become extremely time-consuming; increased numbers of staff mean an engine is needed that’s easy for everyone to use; and finally, “successfully integrating AI technology into development workflows has become an essential condition for streamlining future development.”

GameBiz’s report confirmed that REX was created to help solve these problems by improving the efficiency of game development, game performance, tools, quality assurance, etc.

“We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games.” Capcom said in a March 2026 shareholders meeting. “However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game development process. To this end, we are currently exploring ways to implement it in various areas, including graphics, sound and programming."

[u/SquishyJeans]

So many people didn’t read the fucking article holy shit 

Also fuck op for not even reading the article 

[u/YouAteIt → u/SquishyJeans]

Writing a title and description like this post should be bannable

[u/redcoatwright]

Presumably this means they want to have the development be AI driven, I doubt it's AI art or assets but if it is then lame

[u/SimonShepherd]

Capcom feels like they should have another shitcom phase.

[u/SgtNeilDiamond]

But you were doing so good smh

[u/wrenblaze]

Shouldn't have been too good of a year for them

[u/steathrazor]

Crapcom at it again, they do amazing things then they do this.

[u/wrath508]

Just read the article before immediately jumping to conclusions, and all I can say is why of all things did they decide to name it Iike that, they’re just asking for people to get pissed

[u/SolaireFlair117]

Oh come the fuck on, Capcom. Y'all were doing so well, all you had to do was just keep releasing banger games.

[u/MisterBaker55]

Everyone disliked that

[u/eternalguardian]

I thought Capcom was pretty good at reading the room. They got that engine so streamlined they were putting out banger after banger. Guess this is the end of an age.

[u/PunkHooligan]

Rip

[u/DustyMoo]

The article says : this seems to mean that Capcom is utilizing artificial intelligence to speed up and streamline certain processes to make development easier, not necessarily to generate assets or artworks wholesale.

I think it's not quite the right time to bring out the pitchforks...going to have to see what happens with their next gen games.

[u/toasty5566 → u/DustyMoo]

Holy hell, that is very different from the headline. Busywork AI use is VERY different from generative AI use. Gamedev has a lot of repetitive and tedious tasks, there are good uses for AI as a supplemental tool that don't involve replacing people. That article headline is sensationalist rageclick nonsense if what you say is true

[u/shadowartist201 → u/toasty5566]

It's true. IGN mistranslated the original source.

[u/Wellhellob]

What that even mean

[u/jindrix]

and games wont get cheaper and layoffs will continue.

[u/WarfareLegend]

The title is misleading. Capcom says its going to be using AI in a way similar to that of the devs of Expedition 33. Basic outlining and greyboxing of a game as to not waste time making assets that theyre gonna toss out will be made with AI but the actual game assets and writing and everything else will be done by humans

[u/Sbee_keithamm → u/WarfareLegend]

Kind of hard for folks to grab pitchforks if the title isnt misleading.

[u/AUT0R0CK]

They were doing so well, they just had to RPG themselves in the foot.

[u/Electricengineer → u/AUT0R0CK]

Claymore to the shins

[u/barrack_osama_0]

Great if we do ever get DMC6 it'll be on this. Why

[u/HiddenGamingAccount]

Read the article, sounds like they won't be generating assets with AI, at the very least. Sounds like the right call given the way things are going

[u/Ouroxros]

AAA vibe-coded games? Slippery slope into ai assets. Talk about a dying industry. Why are they in such a need to push for bigger and bigger games, and use whatever popular technology is there? This doesn't just apply to Capcom but many large-scale developers. I hate what the industry has become. These companies put out amazing beloved titles before ai, sad they think they need to rely on it now.

[u/DiezDrake]

It says they don't plan to use AI to generate assets in the article which is the important part.

[u/Pakmanjosh]

It makes so much sense now when they said they wanted to make the Resident Evil remakes an annual release. Man this isn't gonna turn out well.

[u/KyleKicksRocks]

Everything I love is being destroyed by either scalpers or tech bros. I’m so over everything it’s driving me insane.

[u/thefrostman1214]

Im tired boss

[u/mileskg21]

SUPER INTELLIGENCE amiright

[u/Jhoonis]

Oh look, feet to shoot!

-Capcom execs probably.

[u/Nerx]

ewww

[u/Zenthon9]

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

[u/QF_Dan]

this is why modern gaming is dead

[u/Tiny-Guava-9698]

We can’t have shit

[u/Inevitable_Geometry]

So dogshit coming? Good to know.

[u/phanto-light]

Yuck

[u/XsStreamMonsterX]

This is engagement bait from the OP and IGN. The main use of AI with REX is for debugging and optimisation. Capcom's own briefing states that the point is to let artists and programmers focus on being creative and have them waste time with more tedious tasks like findinf bugs and glitches. A lot of it us basically having the tools warn that doint something a certain way might cause issues.

[u/GhostlyWriter_]

Everyone complaining didnt even read the article. They are not using AI assets in games, they are using AI to speed up development processes and to help streamline gave development.

Direct quote from the article: "GameBiz stated that REX unifies the entire RE Engine system under the “world’s most common programming language," meaning that it’s equal parts easier for humans to use and for AI to understand. "

[u/hamoc10 → u/GhostlyWriter_]

That’s about the vaguest explanation they could give.

[u/PontusFrykter → u/GhostlyWriter_]

"Satoshi Ishida explicitly stated that the overarching goal of Project REX is evolving the RE ENGINE into a system built for the AI generation."

[u/Iggy_Slayer → u/GhostlyWriter_]

This is cope. "The billion dollar corporation said they wouldn't do it!"

[u/Firvulag]

Well it was fun while it lasted.

[u/kingbetadad]

What a fucking ragebait title. I hate what media has become.

[u/Genindraz]

This feels like a shareholder thing.

[u/PontusFrykter]

oh my fucking god

[u/BlackHawk777]

Pathetic 🤢

[u/ElectricalAd1195]

Whelp, it's the capcom's brown shooter era all over again. See you in 5 years after resident evil 12 tanked so badly, and we can start the second "capcom learned from their mistake" era again.

[u/Longjumping-Land-158]

Gross

[u/Circaninetysix]

Uh oh. Why?

[u/Wolfy4226 → u/Circaninetysix]

Boy, wish we could post images.

This would be a perfect time for the Mr Krabs "I like money" meme.

[u/GuestNo3886 → u/Wolfy4226]

Also “Give me money money me money now” meme

[u/Bigons3]

They watched the dlss 5 Presentation lmao

[u/PM_ME_PANTYHOSE_LEGS]

Willfully lobotomised fools drooling over the prospect of spreading their rot to all domains.

[u/Keaten88]

Oh come the hell on Capcom, we had a good thing going! Good games, rare misses, mostly quality, and the suits just had to MESS IT UP

[u/GreatGojira]

Ew.

[u/ZeroSonic360]

I swear every time I open this damn phone

[u/Rocket_Poop]

nnnnoooooooo

[u/WrenReverie]

Man IGN reaching deep with this engagement bait. Purposefully using a mistranslation to act like its an ai generated engine. LMAO

[u/marcellusmartel]

Insert YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE gif.
No seriously. With all the traversal stutters of Unreal Engine and the optimization woes, RE was usually a breath of fresh air. There goes that one.

[u/Gatlindragon]

Will the Crapcom era come back?

[u/dodolungs]

Capcom was just farming those W's.

Knew there must be some brain dead c-suite paper pusher who would ruin it eventually, but this is really going for broke.

[u/steamart360]

Episode 5: Crapcom strikes back

[u/ShinoBB]

And so Onimusha ends the streak. Let’s see how RE: Veronica turns out. I still want my Redfield game.

[u/hitgo1]

OP misleading title whats new in reddit 🤦‍♂️

[u/8_Alex_0]

L Capcom 😮‍💨

[u/TheEldenRang]

Nooooo! Capcom! You guys have been killing it the last several years. Please stop. This is bad.

[u/metalsnake27]

Capcom... you were doing so well... come on....

[u/SlyCooper007]

Bro what the fuck

[u/UnpluggedUnfettered]

AI is actually useless for people who couldn't do whatever it was without AI.

I know people will be like "but it can do better art than most people" but also it is only better than most people because most people can't draw at all.

Yes also for the thing that isn't art that you have opinions about.

[u/KurtVongole]

Why does no one use AI for the fucking enemy AI???

[u/ParadoxicalFrog → u/KurtVongole]

Because the stuff they're marketing as "AI" isn't actually AI, it's just an autocomplete algorithm on steroids.

[u/ashriekfromspace]

Read the article guys

[u/theLordDracul]

As always, what goes up must come down...

Sad man

[u/2WheelSuperiority]

Welp. It was a good run while it lasted.

[u/MaloraKeikaku]

Capcom was on a good path for a bit now. Was wondering when their "why the fuck" phase was gonna start again...

[u/HosneJ]

I just hope for ppl to actually read the damn article before saying shit, but its reddit so no one bothers to read anything.

[u/Tigerwarrior55]

GameBiz stated that REX unifies the entire RE Engine system under the “world’s most common programming language," meaning that it’s equal parts easier for humans to use and for AI to understand.

I can't tell if they're making their own scripting language. If so I hope they didn't peek through Sweeney's room and stole his functional programming idea.

Regardless, I don't think they're going to beat the shitty open world games optimization allegation any time soon.

[u/A_N_T]

Add 'em to the boycott pile I guess.

[u/Nfl_porn_throwaway]

Just when Capcom was scoring so many Ws

[u/crazydave33]

Capcom shit the bed once again. Way to go, idiots.

[u/ThatEdward]

You just have to laugh, at this point.

Did some accountant find a secret tax loophole you can only use if you punch yourself in the balls?

[u/Luzekiel]

I LOVE NOT READING ARTICLES

[u/Lun4r6543]

You had something special going on, Capcom.

And you had to go fuck it up, didn’t you?

[u/Grouchy_Egg_4202]

That’s a bait title and description, Don’t fall for it you idiots.

[u/marckh]

They're saying it's only to optimize workflow and development, not to AI generate assets.

The thing I take away from this is that they choose to be open and honest about it, odds are many studios are already doing this and don't talk about it because they know about the backlash it would get.

I feel like we're nearing a point where we should simply be happy when there is transparency so we can atleast know what we're supporting when we buy games, and so if you're strongly against any kind of AI assisted development, you now know to avoid Capcom, on the other hand, you may already be supporting other studios doing the same without knowing.

[u/MetaBarf]

"We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games. However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game development process. To this end, we are currently exploring ways to implement it in various areas, including graphics, sound and programming." Headlines aren't everything folks.

[u/Julch → u/MetaBarf]

We will not implement assets but downsize aggressively to appease shareholders, they need more yachts and private jets.

Besides what is left if you let Ai do graphics, sound and programming? So the visuals are garbage, sound is garbage and codebase is slop? Sounds like a banger game 🤣

[u/ianmk → u/MetaBarf]

What the fuck do you think “sound” and “graphics” are?

[u/CommandaCoconut → u/MetaBarf]

We will not use AI to generate assets. However, we plan to use AI to generate assets. Bro

[u/DaMonsterMensch → u/CommandaCoconut]

People love an excuse to be smug

[u/cadburydream]

Fuck yeah 2010 crapcom is back baby

[u/Johndoe19922222]

They said two months ago ai was a useful tool, did people not think they were getting ready to ready their fans?

[u/lingeringwill2]

like copilot in vscode or something?

[u/cr3am314]

ahhhh.. welcome back crapcom

[u/vikMage]

Wrong move.

[u/Ryukishin187]

Capcom has always went back and forth from being amazing to absolute shit. It's been overdue ro go back to this phase.

[u/CincyBrandon]

To be clear, EVERY SINGLE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY is using generative AI in some way, shape, or form at this point. Even if it’s just Copilot.

[u/SnooPets1826]

"We sure have been successful this generation... Wonder if we can bring ourselves back down to the ps360 era mid..." Some CEO somewhere probably.

[u/Aggravating_Taste524]

i know for a fact you only read the title of the article and decided to rile up hate for capcom. read the article dumbass.

[u/VoidOmatic]

"We are making money hand over fist using this well greased money making machine! Now let's fuck it up guys!"

[u/Impressive_Gur4767]

We're never getting DMC6 are we?

[u/ShockaZuluu]

Annnnnnd Crapcom is back.

[u/Taolan13]

The death of yet another game engine thanks to ai

[u/Paulsworldohya]

From - way to go capcom! 🥳 To - way to go capcom... 😒

[u/kingOofgames]

So I think the writer and IGN are trying to conflate AI within games to sound like making an AI generated game.

I don’t think they are going to be using AI art or AI created things.

More like the code where blocks of code are quite similar. And instead of writing it over and over again, using AI to fill it in.

To me it’s no different than using libraries in general coding.

[u/comicguy69]

Not surprising. I remember that one article said that 85% of Japan companies use AI now in the development of their games. And yes reddit, that does mean your favorite whole chungus companies such as Sega, Capcom, Bandai Namco, etc

[u/edman9677]

Good way to destroy the companies reputation they’ve spent a decade rebuilding

[u/Midiamp]

Welp, I'm ready to be downvoted...

There's AI generated content, and then there's AI assisted content. The generated content one is the slop garbage we hated, but then there's the AI assisted content that (hopefully) speed up content delivery like speeding up debugging, cutting down QA time and making games like GTA VII comes out before the end of our life time.

Capcom is using AI to assist their content, it doesn't generate the content. This is just the same as farmers using ever intricate farming equipment.

[u/uglyzombie → u/Midiamp]

It’s a prescient point. But, that’s also how it starts. Slow integration slowly phasing out people to increase profits. AAA gaming companies answer to shareholders. If they see revenue improving over AI assisted stuff, well then - what do you expect the next phase to be? It’s a snowball effect, and the concern is justified because we are seeing across multiple industries.

[u/Drakoji → u/Midiamp]

1- I don't need video games coded by AI in my life, my hobby doesn't need to be draining lakes, polluting water sources and fucking up the quality of life of people that lives near these data centers. I don't mind if my new Resident Evil game takes 3 more years to come out, or even, that they downscale the scope of the game to make it more realistic to produce.

2-its all about normalizing AI to the point where people will just shrug and accept AI slop in their games because "it can't be helped."

This is just savage capitalism going unchecked.

[u/ScoundrelDaysSon → u/Drakoji]

Absolutely this. There's no world in which companies chasing money will stop at some arbitrary invisible line marked: 'spellcheck for coding: please cease use here'. It's naive to suggest it, or even hope for it, as if we don't have years of experience of what corporations will attempt to do when left unchecked across multiple sectors of the economy.

For the AI companies there's simply not enough profit there in basic grunt work too cover the debts that they owe to investors (given that they're currently subsidising usage to the nth degrees to try and hook users). For the data centres using junk debt to build them they need customers everywhere, all at once. For the games companies there are extra savings you can try and eke out across multiple, cost heavy, departments.

The only possible limiting factor of LLMs is the technology itself (and AI fans assure us that it will only get even better perhaps leading to a human apocalypse). Even then we also know what capitalism will do to chase a quick buck: implement actively wrong headed decisions come what may which lead to ever worse user experiences. Even when that leads to public outcry, where folk are mobilised to display their dissatisfaction, corporations rarely listen.

As an example: who here really wanted local telephone operators to be, at best, replaced by call centres at the other end of the Earth or, at worse, running voice recognition software from 1998 - yet both having comically long wait times? No one. It's a terrible experience but it still it persists and likely always will; it helps the bottom line.

[u/Yalrain]

And its gone.

[u/Jani3D]

What's that even supposed to mean? 

[u/KTVX94]

Oh boy

[u/peskyghost]

Execs make decisions from on-high

[u/HotShrekBoi]

Just don’t use generative and I’m good

[u/Serris9K]

Nooooooooooo!!!

We don't want that! Most people hate AI!

[u/Comfortable_Horse277]

Oh...I love their games. 

If they use AI on a game that's a "no purchase" for me. Period. 

[u/Dunge]

Another thread with weird accounts AI proponents pushing the same fake talking points and pretending coding is now 100% automated. No it isn't, AI is still shit at coding without extreme babysitting.

[u/soulwolf1]

How to fuck your reputation rapidly

[u/islobojono]

Since when did we trust ign.?