Forgot to mention, I only chose unreal because its all I really know about. After joining the emu discord yesterday I saw that there were people debating this very subject.
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AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?
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Tuco
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Cool.
I used to work in Unity, the last 6 years I've been using Unreal Engine. It's really good but the last 2 years of UE5 development have been a bit of a disappointment. I'm wondering if UE6 is going to die under its own weight and get outworked by Godot.
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Going to be sad when everyone has potential access to the tools to make the exact game they want but cant afford that and/or the hardware to play it on. Makes me wonder if we're going to see computer ownership, at least for gaming, go back to a niche community and most consumer usage is just everything being streamed from data centers and you have a subscription to geforce now.
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rhinohelix
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I have a few things to do local AI and my experience with it hasn't been great. I much prefer my cloud AI subs to my LMStudio Qwen3.8 for anything. I didn't realize how limited local AI was; it either knows or it doesn't, and doesn't search for anything. Mine wouldn't update, look on the web, etc. It was completely offline. I know that you can connect them but I already have a bunch of cloud subs that are fully connected. For some people, this is a feature not a drawback; for my use cases, it doesn't make sense. It's something I will come back to when I have spare cycles.
We'll see if this is a bump in the road price-wise, much like the GPU storms, or something more sustained. I don't think we are returning to the prices of the 80's-early 90's, when PCs were super niche. The AI Bubble may or may not POP per se but I think the spending will lessen and this hardware will have to go somewhere, and when people are buying rather than companies, the hardware corps aren't going to try to translate $7000 shortage pricing AI laptops into 2030 machines. There isn't the demand when companies aren't buying; regular consumers will pay +500-+$1000; no one is just going accept the $1500 desktop has become a $4000 desktop. The market will shrink enough and someone will start finding a way to start giving people want they want.
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More ai friendly than unreal/unity, but not having the asset-stores to take advantage of is a big downside (how big depends on your game type of course). You could eventually have claude replicate any of the functional assets, but having a proven solution (or a stack of them) to pop in can be nice. And the mcps seem pretty reasonable now.
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