GTA 7 should be cheaper to produce than GTA 6 thanks to AI, says former Producer of Rockstar

Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) It is possibly one of the most anticipated games of all time. Although gameplay has not yet been revealed, the released trailers have already impressed the players with their very high technical level.

With one of the biggest budgets in the history of entertainment, the game raises questions about the costs of the next generation of games. However, a former Rockstar Producer believes that GTA 7 It may be significantly cheaper to produce than its predecessor.

According to Obbe Vermeij, former coach of Rockstar Games, the advancement of artificial intelligence tools will play a crucial role in reducing costs.

“GTA 7 will be cheaper to produce than GTA 6. I imagine that, say, you do a cutscene, you could simply… all the characters in cutscene could be rendered by an AI, including the conversation, if you just describe the scene. This could be your first version of a cutscene. part of the work will probably be replaced. ”

As a programmer, Vermeij also commented on the criticism involving the replacement of professionals by AI. For him, this is just another natural stage of automation in the game industry.

“This has basically been happening to programmers over the years. When we started GTA 3, an Engine was just the rendering part, but the programmers still wrote physics, the detection of collisions and, you know, the code of animation – and all that has been removed from individual projects and now part of Engine, right? They used to do it and it is no longer necessary. ”

“When I started, programmers represented about a third of a typical team, and now it’s perhaps 10, 15 percent. So that has happened to programmers. And now, with AI, even more work will be automated.”

Grand Theft Auto 6 will be released on May 26, 2026 for PlaySation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Fonte: Gaming Bolt