Epic CEO Says AI Could Power Next Breath of the Wild

Epic Games CEO: AI Prompts To Create All Video Game Character Dialogue In "The Next Few Years," Empower Small Teams To Make 'Breath Of The Wild'-Sized Games

Link (Kengo Takanashi) stares down a Hinox in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017), Nintendo Epic Games’ CEO Tim Sweeney hasn’t been shy about his support of AI in games development. Recently, he has proposed the idea that within “the next few years,” it could be possible to feed an AI a character’s synopsis, and have it produce all their dialogue. He believes this would enable even a development team of just ten people to produce a ga…

Epic CEO Says AI Could Power Next Breath of the Wild

At State of Unreal 2025, Epic’s CEO Tim Sweeney shared what he thinks about AI changing how video games are getting made. Speaking during an IGN interview, Sweeney mentioned we might soon hit the stage where just around ten people could build something as huge as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. All that, thanks to advanced AI tools taking over the heavy lifting, like writing dialogue or shaping how game worlds respond. From Character No…