PlayStation sees AI as a ‘powerful tool’ to help make games

May 8, 2026 Jay Peters

The PlayStation 5 Pro on a table.

As part of an earnings presentation on Friday, Sony shared how it's thinking about AI at the company, including many details about how it's evaluating AI as part of making PlayStation games. Generative AI has recently been showing up in bigger games - though many indie developers still reject it - and while Sony calls AI a "powerful tool," it says that the "vision, the design, and the emotional impact of our games will always come from the talent of our studios and performers." and that "AI is meant to augment their capabilities, not to replace them."

At its own studios, Sony says that developers are "automating repetitive workflows, improv …

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