The price of the Nintendo Switch has reportedly been leaked. In addition, a booklet full of accessories also came out. Will this help Nintendo?
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't think AI will reduce employment or lower development costs, and calls it "stupidest thing" he's ever heard.
They already have AI trained to do coding.......
How he thinks it's stupid is beyond me, Especially since we see it happening in real time.
Company A has 300 employees and lays of 200 to replace them with AI to release the same quality game.
Company B has 300 employees and keeps all 300 but instead uses AI to release a game with dramatically larger scale, scope, complexity, short dev cycle etc.
Company B would release a dramatically better product by using humans + AI and consumers would buy the better game.
I actually agree with this concept.
This is key facet. Its how the AI is used. It's actually is impressive as is and really would make an amazing addition to alot of people in their jobs, not just tech. It also has the potential for businesses to use to lay off large amounts of people, as much as they could to save money on labor. I hope too many companies don't go with the latter. But since usually companies are worried about bottom line over people...we will see some try and hopefully fail. But yeah, if its to help workers like in your company B scenario I'm totally down...Just scared Company A may be too enticing to some ceos and businesses.
Value of AI and value of humans will both be increased with human-AI complex. Each, by themselves, will not be independently better than the other. Whether AI will ever be independent from humans is the fear question of humans, ironically because of our doing. At this stage, most of the doing is because of humans, not because of AI. AI is doing exactly that by our design, until we have failed ourselves with an AI development that went awry. The biggest take is that humans have only ourselves to blame when things become wrong, and we have to decide what is the ultimate goal with AI we want to accomplish. It would take a person with high morals and high ethics to make right of AI. I would not want businessman to decide what AI should do or what capabilities it can have. AI should be in the hands of people with high moral fiber, or those operating on love, kindness, and compassion.
AI is SUPPOSED to be used as a tool, not a replacement. It's designed to do two important things artists can take advantage of immediately.
- Make the ideation/reference imaging process much quicker and easier (basically using it as a google search)
- Make mundane and time consuming tasks faster and easier so more time is spent on creation.
Unfortunately, what many have done is used it as a way to replace rather than supplement.
You can already make your own SFX with text prompts now as well, of course it will lower development cost and time
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Sure Strauss and robots didn’t take jobs from car factories.
Edit:Sad thing is he believes it and unfortunately he won’t be replaced for a long time by AI
He doesn't, he's just lying. These people lay people off so they can get bonuses. If AI takes jobs, their bonus goes bigger and the workforce goes smaller.
I think maybe sometimes we give people in these positions too much credit when it comes to intelligence.
As long as it doesn't effect his inflated executive salary or his ridiculous bonuses I'm sure he's fine with it.
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Windows Central writes: "Many PlayStation Studios games that are ported to PC get dedicated PS5 DualSense support, which allows users to experience haptic feedback and adaptive trigger support without actually having to own a PS5.
According to Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, it's still the company's intent to launch the bigger single-player games on PS5 first, before later bringing the games to PC. This might not be the case for multiplayer games however, which are considered okay to launch simultaneously on console and PC."
My guess is after god of war. Probably last of us 2 that's a almost 4 year old game now and by the time it's released on pc it will be more than 4 years old or close to 5.
Right. I definitely see what a headlined from a website named windows central was trying to do though. It's cute little wordplay to help out the green box
If it's £220 with a game im soo in
I have to admit, I'd be in for that too. Zelda maybe? :)
What will impress me is if Switch works as advertised with a decent battery life. The only two titles we have seen built from the ground up on Switch are Seasons Of Heaven and Super Mario (Switch). Both impress me visually. I'm excited! And I love Breath Of The Wild's visuals, which will probably look sharper on Switch. But it can't conclude what Switch is capable of as it was built for Wii U. The size of Breath Of The Wild's map impresses me most, the gameplay mechanics look sweet. It's going to be awesome.
Seasons Of Heaven: http://gematsu.com/wp-conte...
Price can, but considering the competition is already $250 the Switch would have to be $199 or less to make an impact on pricing, realistically IMO $199 is the lowest. Price will be important, because the hardware is expected not to live up to the competition therefore they have to sell the device based on functionality aka hybrid console portability. But $250 for a handheld has never worked, luckily for Switch it's the most advanced dedicated gaming handheld (although so was the Vita), so as long as it nails battery life, memory storage (micro SD please), and multiplayer on the go, it will be fine until they launch a Switch slim for $199 or less.
Games can if the Switch is fully backwards compatible with NES - GameCube, and GB - 3DS emulation, with the addition of new releases and Wii U remasters all hitting early in the devices life cycle then games will carry it as well. The top 15% of each generations games need to be on Virtual Console by Year 1, they need at least 6 first party exclusives each year, 6 best of Wii U remasters for the first few years, and finally solid 3rd party support (good from JP, at best mediocre for West), and Switch will be a near perfect Nintendo device.
Accessories I don't think will help NX out at all. Never seen an accessory be the reason 10's of millions buy a console outside of the Wiimote.
249.99 simply puts it on par, price wise with current gen consoles. That's not some mind-blowing price tag. If it launched at 199.99, now THAT would be impressive!