PlayStation’s ex-boss Shawn Layden thinks generative AI’s affect on the gaming business is being largely overestimated, and the burgeoning tech will not result in large value reductions like some CEOs are drooling for.
“I see a lot of estimation or prognostication about how AI is going to revolutionize gaming, from mostly people who are not in gaming, saying that ‘I think there are ways that it helps accelerate certain functions’,” Layden instructed gamesindustry.biz in a current interview.
He as an alternative views AI by means of the identical lens that accountants would possibly’ve considered Excel when it was new: “I see the impact of AI on gaming as the impact of Excel on certified public accountants.” He explains that “it was better to have a macro and do your sums that way rather than on an adding machine,” however accountants “still had to have enough knowledge to realize” whether or not the sums had been appropriate and methods to interpret the numbers thereafter.
On a semi-related observe, Layden additionally talked about that outsourced improvement, one thing utilized by a number of recreation firms to additionally cut back prices, has improved over the generations.
“Sometimes in the early days it would have been cheaper to do it ourselves instead of having it redone nine times because we just couldn’t get a meeting of the minds with the outsourcing company overseas and the developers here,” he defined. Now? “The connection between core development teams and engineering resources in Taiwan or art resources in Malaysia, I think those are getting better optimized all the time.”
Still, he is “not sure” that AI and higher outsourced expertise “will actually create the deceleration of cost.”