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Yeah, but figurative drowning still beats the literal kind. Barely.

Just found a potentially viable business plan, then.

Mountain house with a hot tub. Climate change and rising water levels makes a beachfront house a poor idea, and nobody sane would want to live in suburbia. You won’t have to deal with a HOA in the mountains, and who doesn’t want a hot tub with a magnificent view?

“…and a great deal of patience as you wait for each NPC to formulate their replies. In the meantime, they’ll just be standing there looking at you with glassy eyes, smiling.”

I don’t, no. I do wonder how many pounds of cocaine a person has to snort to make a statement like that without vomiting from abject self-loathing in the process though.

This is some serious world class assholery.

Apparently, slashing their budgets to the tune of $660 million, will:

“…strengthen the food system for schools and childcare institutions…”

Do you guys think they realize just how full of shit they sound?

Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case, natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm. It certainly isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.

Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t - and making one is considerably more work and expense than having a voice actor just deliver a fixed set of lines), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.

Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I imagine players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.

Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.

Does anybody actually want that, ever?

My apologies. It turns out that the source of your confusion is… My utter lack of reading comprehension. You see, I originally misread the question posed by the post as what essentially amounts to “would you rather have hands or feet… for feet”, and after considering the matter, concluded that the extra manipulatory capabilities didn’t outweigh the drawbacks to movement, and so answered ‘feet’, i.e. “I’m good, thanks”. You can see how the confusion percolated from there, I’m sure.