Legendary Mario creator on AI: Nintendo is “going the opposite direction”

In the last few years, large swaths of the game industry have embraced generative AI, both on the development side and for new user-generated content tools . But legendary Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto says his company "would rather go in a different direction" when it comes to AI technology. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Miyamoto said this wasn't just contrarianism on Nintendo's part. “It might seem like we are just going the opposite direction for the sake of going in the opposite direction, but it...