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PlayStation creator turned AI CEO Ken Kutaragi predicts AI daydreams will replace video games

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PlayStation creator turned AI CEO Ken Kutaragi predicts AI daydreams will replace video games

Ken Kutaragi is best known as the father of the PlayStation, having led the development of the PS1, PS2, and PS3 consoles. While he retired from Sony in 2007, he's keeping busy as an AI firm CEO who seems convinced that video games will soon be replaced by AI daydreams. The most incredible part is that he also seems to believe that's a good thing.

"AI will transform games into entertainment, and change human sensibilities," Kutaragi tells 4Gamer (via Power Up Gaming) at a recent university panel. "The global game market is currently worth over 30 trillion Yen, but it might reach around 3,000 trillion Yen. If that happens, it won't even be called a game anymore."

He cites the development of early 3D fighting games like Virtua Fighter and Battle Arena Toshinden as examples of how quickly video game technology once developed. Now, while game studios are astronomically larger than they were in the PS1 era, graphical development has slowed to a crawl. AI is where the real innovation is happening, he argues.

"Behind the scenes, research and development is advancing on the real-time generation of video and music using AI," Kutaragi continues. "It’s predicted that this technology will be capable of operating at the same speed as today’s game consoles sometime around 2028 to 2029. When that happens, all content will change. Communication and imagination will become content. Imagining things will become content itself."

It's worth noting that this quote has been machine translated out of Japanese via DeepL, so some of the nuance may be lost in translation.


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