If you’re trembling with fear that AI will take away everything you want, this news won’t exactly calm your nerves. And it’s because Square Enix, the giant that this year is already preparing ‘Final Fantasy VII Remake’, ‘SaGa: Emerald Beyond’ or ‘Visions of Mana’, has already announced, ignoring most of the community, that from now on it will base a large part of its business on artificial intelligence.
F-AI-nal Fantasy
Do you remember when, in March 2023, Square Enix announced that they were making an NFT game that they haven’t released but that no one remembers anymore? Well, here it gives a similar impression, after in past New Years they claimed it was the turn of the metaverse and blockchain: whatever is trendy at that moment. Takashi Kiryu, the CEO of the company, has sent a New Year’s letter revealing his brilliant plan: “To be aggressive in applying AI and other advanced technologies both for content development and for our functions as a publisher.”
AI can help a lot in certain parts of a job and make categorization or summaries less tedious, but when it comes down to it, most bosses hear “Fewer artists to hire!”. “It has the potential not only to change what we create, but also to change the processes by which we create, including programming.” Square’s programmers are feeling very calm right now.
Kiryu continued in the letter, “In the short term, our goal will be to increase our productivity as developers and achieve greater sophistication in our marketing efforts. In the long term, we hope to elevate those technologies to create new content for consumers, because we believe that technological innovation represents business opportunities“. Business, money, bills. In the end, it is clear what the main concern is, right?
Come on, if what you wanted was even more games even more narratively vague than ‘Final Fantasy VII Remake’, you’re in luck. What a gamer future awaits us.
