Although it seems like they were always a subsidiary of Annapurna (film), rather than there being any consolidation.
Yeah, but not limited to generative AI (though there’s been a lot of talk about that lately). There is room for automation of various time intensive development tasks, with smarter tools. The generative AI stuff seems like a total dead end, for game development. At best (i.e. worst) you end up with the situation in China, where gen AI is being used to produce a ton of generic illustrations. (It’s being applied to other tasks - e.g. generating 3D models- but it’s absolutely terrible at those, and will likely never be good.) It doesn’t help with AAA development - and probably hurts it, if anything.
