NowGamer's hands-on preview with Harmonix title Dance Central on Xbox 360 Kinect
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."
All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help
The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.
"They’ve governed your guitar, dominated your drums and liberated your larynx, now Harmonix wants your entire body. Not content with band simulation in Rock Band, the developer has followed Ubisoft’s example with Just Dance and created Dance Central. However, cast aside any illusions that this is a throwaway title rammed to the gills with patronising gameplay and gimmicks. Instead, it’s quite confidently the most technically proficient and enjoyable dance game yet, and serves as a superb showcase of what Kinect is capable of."
This sound more like the beginning to an advertisement rather than a preview. Molyneux probably wrote it.
Dance Central is gonna be a hot seller..... gamers or not.
My daughter was hinting that she wants Kinect the other day. She said that the Wii was so yesterday and that the kids at school are all talking about Kinect and The Beiber - kids these days : )
Edit: Kinect article number 3345437 will be posted on N4G very shortly :)
The word 'Craze' comes to mind. Will we all be fed up by Kinect a few Christmases down the line, like we did with Wii?
ms captivated the youth thats why it will be a SMASHING success every girl wants it cause of bieber and kids want the new coll thing. the wii is so yesterday lol christmas will be crazy lots of parents fightin for kinect