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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'

www.pcgamer.com 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'

Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.

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'

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/gaming@lemmy.world/t/1484642

Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.

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This is a great way for him to waste money and time developing games no one wants. A cyber truck version of Diablo 4, what would that even look like.
God please no. The game industry is messed up as it is.
- Shitting in a garden is good for the plants... Maybe this is like that?
Musk and Trump are jamboys for the Fascists.

They are there solely to draw attention.
Oh how i wish he would just shut the ever loving fuck up already. Him and all his little muskrats. Oh what a quiet and peaceful world that would be.

We are doomed. Doomed i say
Will it go as well as X AI?

Grok is the laughing stock of the LLM world, and he also completely lied about his promise to make them open source. The latest Qwen release from Alibaba (open, locally runnable weights, tiny, Apache, freaking smart) has rendered his obscene hoard of H100s basically obsolete, with a miniscule fraction of the money.
On the bright side there's about a 100% guarantee that any game he shits out is gonna be terrible. You can rig, bribe, and exploit your way through literally anything except creating good art. The industry's seen plenty of attempts already

And if it's good then ill just pirate it :3
- Also it will be some kind of grift. I guess something something nft crypto, or whatever.
  
  And will end up being banned from steam as a result.
  
  I'm looking forward to it tbh.
The richest man in the world complains companies with 1% of his persona wealth are too big.

What the actual F.
- Yes'just jealous he hasn't got a game studio. He wants so badly to be cool.
- Microsoft owns most of it
Fine, make games for Nazis, nobody cares. When it fails completely you can whine about the big mean world being mean to you then buy the next president and make them fund your losses from being trash-tier. Also, every maga will buy them like obedient sheep, so you will get a few million guaranteed sales.

Can't wait to see how many titles he can come up with that have X in them before he has to branch out (if the company lasts that long).
Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations

Uh oh. Am I going to have to agree with the worst person in the world?

so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

Oh whew. He's got the worst possible solution to the problem. The world is still correctly aligned.
This will go as well as Grummz’ (aka Bus Guy) new game studio. Also Amazon tried and failed, Facebook tried and failed, Google tried and failed. Non of these Silicon Valley cunts know how to start and run a creative endeavor like a game studio.
My god he’s insufferable
I don't give a shit what Trump's little bitch thinks thinks about video games.
God I’m so sick of hearing about this douchebag.
- 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.
Ten years from now, President Musk, the last president of the free united states, signs a document ceding all territory to the new russian empire
- We're going to be ruled by a split coalition between China, Mexico and Canada. And we'll somehow be better for it.
  
  Already consider Texans to be Mexicans so I suppose the red states will follow suit
  
  Would California join more ideologically similar Canada (and double their population)
  
  Join China because of the coast/wealth
  
  Or be returned to Mexico?
  
  Well, the parts ruled by Mexico and Canada, at least.
Creating a game studio, because you are a huge corporation with unlimited money doesn't guarantee success. Just look at Amazon game studios for example.
- I bet he's banking on marketing the games as "anti-woke" and getting the MAGA crowd to buy them to own the libs.
  
  Its like every week a new episode of black mirror script is coming to life.
  
  I know games as propaganda exist in some shape and form already, but imagine what could a selfish man-child with all the money in the world do to the game industry to bring his "vision" to life.
  
  I bet it will work, too. 😬
- Google has failed at games over, and over, and over.
- Stadia.
  
  ...Is he gonna hire Phil Spencer?
- Or at EA, or Ubisoft
  
  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.
Cities skylines 2 is already out so IMO we don't need more games
Stop typing up that misogynist manifesto and scouting crowded public spaces. Instead, become the hero you wish you were and do us all a fucking favour. I will personally ensure you have the fattest commissary in history for the duration of your life sentence.
He and trump are like two wicked and ridiculous Roald Dahl villains. Insufferable, and how. I wish they’d both just fuck off.
The new Crypto AI game named DogeX allows you to become a Russian troll!
I'm sure he'll attract a ton of talent. As if the game industry wasn't bad enough with its employees, an Elon-ran game company would be something for the ages.

Let the first AAA woke game bomb.
Richest fucker in the world starts indie game studio was not on my bingo card.
- Don't worry, he just made a type in "crypto grift studio".
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.
- The people pushing AI don't care if AI works or not. They will keep making money while the consumers and workers suffer.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIwh95klZQ Relevant Idiocracy
- Producing hot garbage is kind of Elon's thing.
- 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.
  
  Elon kind of already did that with X and unfortunately it hasn't taught him anything.
  
  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 stumbles onto the next Fortnite out of sheer luck.
  
  Like GTA, but only teslas.
- Hard work and talent might organize and start s union, so they'll go with the ~~hot garbage~~ AI.
- not a replacement for actual hardwork and talent
  
  But.. it is*?
  
  *: From the perspective of upper management and higher.
Fuck off Elon.
Open world game where you make yourself an Oligarch?
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.
- I'm sure he'll just sue people for not buying it like he's trying to do with his other products.
Umm, okay. It takes a long ass time to make a game. This will be a new untested studio. Even if they start making good games it's going to be years from now.
- I think how he works is that he will buy out a studio with an almost finished game, and reskin it to help him with gaining more power in the USA .
  
  It will be out in a few months, and he will claim credit.
I'm sure the studio will launch by next year, like every Musk product.
- Full Self Publishing is only two years away, just like it has been for eight years.
- “Two weeks…” <ad infinitum>
- 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.
Wait, lemme guess, its called "X Studios" and its totally gonna change the world forever!
- And they're going to release a console. Named the X Machine.
  
  Actually, it would be cool if it was the "X Machina"
- 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.
  
  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.
Aww he thinks people like him?
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).
- I think Musk is "Poochie" from The Simpsons.
Talking about "non-woke" AI. How's Grok doing? Still hating him like all his other children?
Elonia is building her own game studio? Well, that was not on my 2024 bingo card.
- 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 😊)
Bet: He will not release a single fucking game
- He'll waste a lot of money to do so though. Just like Amazon before him. And Google.
  
  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."
A certain type of goateed chungus will take as an article of faith that this is a revolution in gaming, preorder multiple copies of these games and send death threats to anyone who suggests that they’re not great.
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.
Well that's another way to burn a few more billion.
K.
- /thread
I guarantee his games will star him and push his agenda into poorly written stories.
- It's going to be 50% pot and "69" jokes.
Yeah good luck with THAT one, Elon. Just another company for you to run into the ground.
Elon musk and Mel Gibson team up to form a new non woke game studio.
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.
- Guarantee you his games will be shit.
  
  Definitely.
  
  NFS Underground but Teslas
  
  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.
  
  Or it's just a bunch of rip offs. Xwatch, Stardew Valley X. XXCOM.
I hope they do some quest native titles
He figured out he can have an army of junkie fanatics if he gets into the videogame business. Just like his multi billionare colleague steam ceo gabe newell who owns a billionare mega yacht fleet and somehow still get praised even here on lemmy.
oh, please don't. please, pretty please?

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