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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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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'

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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".

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.
- Now that he is first lady, you won't get away from him.
- I used to love dreaming about near future space travel.

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.
- not a replacement for actual hardwork and talent
  But.. it is*?
  *: From the perspective of upper management and higher.
- Hard work and talent might organize and start s union, so they'll go with the ~~hot garbage~~ AI.

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.

My god he’s insufferable

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.
- We might get a new entry for the "Worst of all Time" award
  
  I'd rather play ET.
- Just because it's bad don't mean that it won't make money hand over fist. Look at everything Disney produces.
  
  Making money from a slightly smaller pile of money is easy.
  Making ever more money from increasingly smaller piles of money is hard, and that's what they all career headlong towards for no discernable reason whatsoever.

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.

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.
- 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.
- Stadia.
  ...Is he gonna hire Phil Spencer?
  
  I think you meant Phil Harrison. Spencer is the current head of Microsoft gaming division and Harrison is the turd who somehow keeps failing upwards.

Fuck off Elon.

Wait, lemme guess, its called "X Studios" and its totally gonna change the world forever!
- 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.
- And they're going to release a console. Named the X Machine.
  
  Actually, it would be cool if it was the "X Machina"

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.
  
  He’s angry he doesn’t own culture. He’s trying to buy the ability to control culture. And to a certain extent I imagine that he’s angry that American pop culture has long flowed from groups he’s bigoted towards.
- Microsoft owns most of it

I don't give a shit what Trump's little removed thinks thinks about video games.

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.
- Netflix too.

Talking about "non-woke" AI. How's Grok doing? Still hating him like all his other children?

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 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.
- Also you will have to shove a camera down your pants so it can verify what gender your character will be assigned.

The new Crypto AI game named DogeX allows you to become a Russian troll!

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.

All games will include some doge based nft stuff wont they?
- You made several hypnotised men cum please be careful
  
  Hey, don't shit on his hobby!

When he finds out XboX is taken....he is going to be SO MAD
- You know he's the type that would go full xXx_Xbox_xXx

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.

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.

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."

Musk's grift is to portray himself as a some kind of "rebel" against the establishment and elites, as a "good guy", even though he belongs to the elites as a billionaire.

From the mind behind the design of the Cybertruck and naming his website X. God that's going to be some grade A cringe.
- AAAA cringe.
  
  He will drift the fanboys out of AAAA money too

Eww, no

Aww he thinks people like him?

God please no. The game industry is messed up as it is.
- are you kidding? god, please YES. I can't wait for the inevitably shitty games this studio would shart out. it's gonna be like those anti woke cartoons.
  vacuous, cynical rehashing of extremely outdated ideas with zero artistic vision and almost certainly full of stupid references to memes and ancient pop culture? PLEASE LET US HAVE IT NOW
  
  The main characters "tag line" it says after a gib is "The cake WAS a lie!" and acts like Duke Nukem, but looks like Elong.
  
  it's going to be that cryptoisland ad: the game.
  
  The game will play as primitively as a forgotten shitty early 90s game but somehow need 8gb of hard drive space, 32GB of DDR5 RAM (64GB recommended) and a GeForce 4090 for the minimum settings. It will also look EXACTLY like an early 90s game, with a resolution of 320x240 and not a pixel more! Think God of Thunder but only without the charm, or the fact that it was made by one person, or the fact that the guy put real effort into it. Have a team of thousands who are paid next to nothing to simply train an AI model and call it a day.
  Edit: It will also cost 110$ at launch, cost 0.05$ per minute of play (0.10$ in peak hours), and all purchases in the game require actual real life money to be used to buy doge coin which will actually be the only thing you can use.
- Shitting in a garden is good for the plants... Maybe this is like that?
- No, this is great. It wastes Musk's money hopefully paying people to make something that wouldn't be otherwise. It doesn't matter if what comes out is garbage. Just don't buy it. More of his money needs to be spent helping, and the government won't do it so the best we can hope for is him just doing it by being a fucking moron.

Call his bluff. Get him away from politics and let him spend the next eight years building the next Balan Wonderworld with cameos from Joe Rogan and Donald Trump.
Better yet, let him collab with Peter Molyneux, and Musk will be bankrupt before the game is released.

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

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 😊)

Musk and Trump are jamboys for the Fascists.
They are there solely to draw attention.

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.

His games will fail so hard it isn't funny. The only people who speak positively of his games are his fans who will buy them and play them for only 10 seconds (and never again) before gushing about how cool they are.

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).

Isn't this moron still playing Diablo 4? Can't say that gives me much confidence in his greatness. I'd also bet both nuts that his games feature microtransactions as their core mechanic.
- The game will cost you 90$ to start, but you need to continually be paying money to play it. He will claim it is an authentic 90s online game because in some places back then, you paid for the internet per minute of use.
- Is he playing it or paying someone to play it.

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.
  
  Well, the parts ruled by Mexico and Canada, at least.
  
  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?

If devs thought the crunch was bad before….

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.

Well that's another way to burn a few more billion.

I'd love to see him try (and fail)

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.

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.

Elon musk and Mel Gibson team up to form a new non woke game studio.

To be fair to him, his AI can probably make a better game than he ever could himself

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.

Yeah good luck with THAT one, Elon. Just another company for you to run into the ground.

Cities skylines 2 is already out so IMO we don't need more games

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.

Open world game where you make yourself an Oligarch?

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