In the age of AI, shovelware and spam is like a plague on PlayStation Store. But Sony has waged war against AI slop and it seems it is going to be a never ending battle. With developers and publishers are popping up left and right, most of them, under the guise of “indies” are actually AI Slop makers.
Sony is far more aggressive in dealing with such “developers” and their games. Just now it is confirmed Sony has removed 1000s of games from its PlayStation Store, including the anticipated Jesus simulator.
The massive purge was first reported by Delisted Games, a website full dedicated to tracking games pulled from digital stores like Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation Store, among others.
The most notable games are Jesus Simulator, Card Shop Game Store, Six Seven Nights, Tune My Car, Cat Life Simulator, I Am Busy Digging a Hole, and many more. Similar purges happened in January and February of this year.
It seems Sony is doing this every month to clear out PlayStation Store of low quality games. Sony’s technical requirements for PlayStation Store are stability, performance, UI consistency, controller handling, load times, error handling, memory management, trophies/achievements, localization, save data, and hardware compatibility.
However, quality requirements are somewhat unclear right now. Is it just AI Slop that is the target? Perhaps.
AI gained a ton of traction in video game development but is now losing its grip. Just days ago Take-Two fired its entire AI team and head of AI.
It’s truly disappointing that I have to share with you that my time with T2 – and that of my team – has come to an end, Luke Dicken (Take Two head of AI).
We’ve been developing cutting edge technology to support game development now for 7 years. These folks know how to match innovation and novel problem solving approaches with strong product design chops to create systems that empower people throughout the development workflow
Other studio are vowing to never use AII in their games. Warframe Community Manager confirmed that “nothing is out games with be AI-generated. Ever.”
Community backlash against generative AI slop seems to be working as more and more studio take a step back to truly evaluate the PR nightmare that comes with this tech.
