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Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

https://lemmy.zip/post/27058285

Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' - Lemmy.zip

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected] [/c/[email protected]]/t/1484642 [https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1484642] > Musk says he’s going to launch an “AI game studio” at his xAI startup.

Nov 28, 2024 at 5:21amWeb
Show threadevidencesNov 28, 2024
I can’t wait for the people that are still on the gamer gate wagon to get ahold of one of these games, find out it’s ass, and then claim the only people that don’t like it are the woke mob that kills art.
Show threadPandemaniumNov 28, 2024
I’m sure he’ll just sue people for not buying it like he’s trying to do with his other products.
Show threadNarri N.Nov 28, 2024
oh, please don’t. please, pretty please?
Show threadjmcsNov 28, 2024
How’s Grok doing? Still hating him like all his other children?
Show threadTar_AlcaranNov 28, 2024
I’m sure the studio will launch by next year, like every Musk product.
Show threadradixNov 28, 2024
Full Self Publishing is only two years away, just like it has been for eight years.
Show threadDogPeePooNov 28, 2024
“Two weeks…” <ad infinitum>
Show threadadarzaNov 28, 2024
computer-controlled enemy mobs and bosses running in circles, into terrain and environment objects, and off cliffs; and unable to tell player from decorative fauna.
Show threadDogiedog64Nov 28, 2024
Yeah good luck with THAT one, Elon. Just another company for you to run into the ground.
Show threadwebghost0101Nov 28, 2024
Richest fucker in the world starts indie game studio was not on my bingo card.
Show threadCarighan MaconarNov 28, 2024
Don’t worry, he just made a type in “crypto grift studio”.
Show threadTh4tGuyIINov 28, 2024

Can we just stop trying squeeze AI into every god damn thing yet?

It has its uses, but its a tool, not a replacement for actual hardwork and talent - and if you try to make it be, you'll just get hot garbage out.

Show threadSlopppyEngineerNov 28, 2024
Hard work and talent might organize and start s union, so they’ll go with the hot garbage AI.
Show threadhank_the_tank66Nov 28, 2024
The people pushing AI don’t care if AI works or not. They will keep making money while the consumers and workers suffer.
Show threadskuzzNov 28, 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIwh95klZQ Relevant Idiocracy
Idiocracy - Carls Jr you are an unfit mother

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Show threadIlovethebombNov 28, 2024
I want them to do this, produce some absolute slop that nobody plays or wants, lose a colossal sum of money, and forever be an example of what not to do.
Show threadTolookahNov 28, 2024
Like GTA, but only teslas.
Show threadrestingboredfaceNov 28, 2024
Elon kind of already did that with X and unfortunately it hasn’t taught him anything.
Show threaddjspNov 28, 2024
He stands to gain more through his political influence than he has lost with Twitter, and the latter arguably helped him get the former. By itself, his acquisition of Twitter is and will remain a loss; in the grand scheme of things, though, it was a sort of investment that is likely to pay off handsomely. If he’s learnt anything, it’s that the United States have devolved into a plutocracy that capital can steer off the common interest of their citizens and the common good.
Show threadStrayceNov 28, 2024
Thing is, he has a big enough bankroll to just keep throwing shit at the wall until something sticks. 100Mil for a triple-A game is effectively pocket change when you’re worth a couple hundred billion. He’ll keep trying until he gets bored or delivers the next Fortnite out of sheer luck.
Show threadCarighan MaconarNov 28, 2024

not a replacement for actual hardwork and talent

But… it is*?

*: From the perspective of upper management and higher.

Show threadstate_electricianNov 28, 2024
Producing hot garbage is kind of Elon’s thing.
Show threadRooskie91Nov 28, 2024
K.
Show threadrobocallNov 28, 2024
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Show threadSabre363Nov 28, 2024
Wait, lemme guess, its called “X Studios” and its totally gonna change the world forever!
Show threadFuglyDuckNov 28, 2024

I’m not going to look, but I’m willing to bet, there’s already a “games” studio called X Studios… and they make porno games.

He probably already has every title. And so do the neckbeards that worship him.

Show threadguacupadoNov 28, 2024
I’m assuming you’re like 14 years old if you’re scared to look. But yes, there is already one. VR, AR, motion capture.
Show threadborariNov 28, 2024
There’s a difference between being scared to look and not caring enough to look.
Show threadFuglyDuckNov 28, 2024

“Scared”? No.

I just don’t care to.

Show threadchunkystylesNov 28, 2024
And they’re going to release a console. Named the X Machine.
Show threadlastunusedusername2Nov 28, 2024
Actually, it would be cool if it was the “X Machina”
Show threadsaltescNov 28, 2024

It’s a great short-term idea to possibly break stagnation in the industry, but it is ultimately ironic and therefore the expected evolution is likely.

I’d believe his words a bit more if he through backing toward indie studios with minimal strings attached. But, he will instead—probably quickly—become part of the same old problem we already have.

Show threadFuglyDuckNov 28, 2024
Guarantee you his games will be shit.
Show threadsaltescNov 28, 2024

Definitely.

NGS Underground but Tesla’s

KSP but only SpaceX parts… Which wouldn’t be bad until you want to go to Minmus and 6 months later your idea is playing out on a feed thanks to data collection skipped in the EULA.

Show threadinnermeerkatNov 28, 2024
I guarantee his games will star him and push his agenda into poorly written stories.
Show threadatzanteolNov 28, 2024
It’s going to be 50% pot and “69” jokes.
Show threadRatManNov 28, 2024
Elon musk and Mel Gibson team up to form a new non woke game studio.
Show threadQueen HawlSeraNov 28, 2024
Bet: He will not release a single fucking game
Show threadBlackmistNov 28, 2024
He’ll waste a lot of money to do so though. Just like Amazon before him. And Google.
Show threadQueen HawlSeraNov 28, 2024

Remember when Netflix took Demogorgon out of DBD because “We’re making our own game!”

Then they were like “Nevermind, we got nothing, you can take this shit back.”

Show threadBlackmistNov 28, 2024

Netflix have a bunch of games on Android, but I forget they exist.

Just had a look and Hades is part of it. The marketing for it is terrible. Oh, it’s IOS only…

Show threadQueen HawlSeraNov 28, 2024
But I loved having an inferior version of Sonic Dash that only has the Prime characters, when the Prime characters are in Sonic Dash anyway /s
Show threadClentNov 28, 2024
Well that’s another way to burn a few more billion.
Show threadCitizenKongNov 28, 2024
He really is Schrödinger’s oligarch, both the richest man alive but somehow also a revolutionary fighting against the “system”. Or in other words, he thinks he’s Neo while literally building the Matrix (Neuralink+AI).
Show threadNutWrenchNov 28, 2024
I think Musk is “Poochie” from The Simpsons.
Show threadnutsackNov 28, 2024
I hope they do some quest native titles
Show threadThe Yungest OnionNov 28, 2024
Fuck off Elon.
Show threadandrew_bidlawNov 28, 2024
Can he get gvmnt to fund this endeavour? Most times such ideas mean siphoning money and not releasing anything and he is bro-bro with Trump.
Show threadPostnataleAbtreibungNov 28, 2024
Elonia is building her own game studio? Well, that was not on my 2024 bingo card.
Show threadhessenjungeNov 28, 2024

Him going going utterly insane because he is Tiny* Stark but omniscient should be on the card from now on.

(* typo by swipe keyboard - I love it so much I decided to keep it 😊)

Show threadjayboneNov 28, 2024
God I’m so sick of hearing about this douchebag.
Show threadJovialMicrobialNov 28, 2024

I’m pretty sure he thinks that if no one is paying attention to him he ceases to exist.

If he wasn’t such a social hazard his pitiful, immature, and downright pathetic personality would make for great satire content.

Show threadOlhonestjimNov 29, 2024
I used to love dreaming about near future space travel.
Show threadFreefallNov 29, 2024
Now that he is first lady, you won’t get away from him.
Show threadMacaroni_ninjaNov 28, 2024
Being a huge corporation with unlimited money doesn’t guarantee success. Just look at Amazon game studios for example.
Show threadda_cow (she/her)Nov 28, 2024
Or at EA, or Ubisoft
Show threadChaoticNeutralCzechNov 28, 2024

EA actually got rich making decent games before their (very early!) foray into enshittification. Can you imagine they went 10 years without yearly EA Sports crap?

Similarly, Ubisoft (then Ubi Soft) used to put out pretty good ones.

Looks like money spoils people.

List of Electronic Arts games: 1983–1999 - Wikipedia

Show threadMacaroni_ninjaNov 28, 2024
Out of touch, money-focused execs ruin everything. Especially when you have to keep the investors and shareholders happy.
Show threadTheKrackenNov 28, 2024
Exactly. You have buyouts that replace creatives with business people and the good developers leave to start another company.
Show threadwandermindNov 28, 2024
I bet he’s banking on marketing the games as “anti-woke” and getting the MAGA crowd to buy them to own the libs.