Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: AI will enable games that budgets once killed, a new golden age
majidmanzarpour · x · 2026-10-18
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney argues that games long impossible because they'd cost multiples of what they'd earn back — and ideas devs couldn't build with available resources — will soon become viable, ushering in "a new golden age of gaming." Reposter majidmanzarpour adds that the era of game ideas dying over budgets is ending.
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