AI is proving an existential threat to video games. AI-generated slop is hitting marketplaces, knock-offs are being generated at the drop of a hat, like ones for Silent Hill f and Schedule 1, and development studios are turning to the technology, often at the cost of developer jobs.
It seems nothing is safe from generative AI, either, as just days after the release of Pokemon Pokopia and FireRed and LeafGreen, opportunists have begun to flood Amazon with frankly terrible strategy guides for the two games.
Maybe I'm just old, but strategy guides used to be cool. I still have a range from my childhood, including ones for the Game Boy's Pokemon Trading Card Game, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Animal Crossing: Wild World, and Pokemon Stadium. They look great on a shelf, have unique artwork often not seen in the games, and, ultimately, helped young me when I got stuck. Those days seem long gone now, though.
In the wake of the release of two big Pokemon games, Pokopia and FireRed and LeafGreen, Amazon is being inundated with shoddy AI-Generated strategy guides that aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Example A is the "POKÉMON POKOPIA...
