The game industry has been treading water for several years now. Between Covid, ever-lengthening development cycles, and sheer corporate greed rushing out half-assed, uninspired products, it seems like we haven’t gotten any truly medium-pushing games in a good while.

I personally cannot wait for generative AI to mature and become widely adopted in gaming. When a bunch of friends can form an indie studio and basically build the games of their dreams using a fraction of the budget or developmental time that is currently required. Same for films, tv shows, anime, etc.

I can’t really get a feel on when this will happen. It sure seems like we’re still 3-5 years away from adoption at the industry-level, but all of this is moving so fast that we might have AGI building any type of game we want instantaneously within a decade. Then there’s VR on the horizon as well.

Interesting times for sure; I can’t wait to see what the latter half of this decade looks like for gamers.