🕹️ From Super Nintendo to AI-Driven Video Games

“We do not run from risk. We run to it. We are taking the risk to move beyond the boundaries of the game industry to reach new players and current players.” - Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President ( 2002-2015)

My first game console was a Super Nintendo. My mom bought it for my siblings and I toward the end of its product lifecycle, right as the Nintendo 64 was starting to make waves. I didn’t care—I was just thrilled to play Super Mario, which had already cemented itself as a cultural icon long before I ever picked up the controller.

Fast-forward through the years, and my loyalty shifted. I became firmly rooted in the PlayStation ecosystem—owning every console from the PS1 through the PS5, and eagerly counting down the years until the PS6, expected in 2027. A friend once told me I was just a victim of marketing, since he gets a “better” gaming experience on PC.

We’re not friends anymore.

I’m joking we’re still friends…but he better watch it!

That said, I do worry about PlayStation’s future. The truth is, the next console war may never happen—not because Sony or Microsoft lost the fight, but because the entire battleground has shifted. Gaming today is about more than hardware and frame rates. It’s about ecosystems—AI-driven assets, streaming-first delivery, and the changing definition of ownership.

In this newsletter, I’ll break down the new gaming stack: the fusion of AI diffusion models, cloud infrastructure, and brain–computer interfaces that may redefine what we even call a “console.”

As usual, remember to like and subscribe to Medallion XLN to help us create the new internet and let me know in the comments, Will Sony’s Playstation still matter in 2030—or will your next console be all in your head? - literally.

That was a Brain Computer Interface joke.

Sir Demis Hassabis is a British computer scientist, entrepreneur, and artificial intelligence (AI) researcher. He is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and his career spans being a child prodigy, a video game designer, and a neuroscientist..

Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, may be the most important figure in AI today—a bold claim in such a fast-evolving space. Yet when you consider DeepMind’s portfolio—from Alpha Go’s strategic brilliance to AlphaFold’s scientific revolution and Gato’s multi-tasking across modalities—their work is clearly laying the foundation for AI-powered gaming.

Models like MuZero and Gato don’t just play games—they learn them. Imagine NPCs in Black Myth: Wukong adapting in real time, bosses evolving their strategies based on your play style. Frustrating? Maybe. But it’s also a vision of games that feel alive—constantly learning, adjusting, and challenging us in ways scripted encounters never could.

And yes, I’m still stuck on that Rat Boss in Black Myth Wukong. Second phase gets me every time. Not that anyone cares about the most important challenge that I have to overcome in my lifetime!

On the asset side, instead of teams of artists painstakingly sculpting every model or weapon, convex splatting could revolutionize asset creation. This technique—an evolution of Gaussian splatting—uses smooth 3D convenes to generate sharper edges, richer detail, and lower memory overhead.

Combined with convex optimization methods like ConvMesh, developers can render high-fidelity, real-time 3D worlds directly from prompts and APIs. Finally, to support all of this dynamism at scale, we need backend architecture to match. Star Citizen’s server meshing system removes the concept of loading screens entirely—distributing planetary regions across dynamically assigned servers.

This allows thousands of players to interact seamlessly within the same persistent universe, without instance walls or hard boundaries.

All of this requires massive backend infrastructure. Look no further than Star Citizen’s server meshing technology, which distributes entire planetary regions across dynamically assigned servers. It eliminates the idea of loading screens altogether, enabling thousands of players to exist in one seamless, persistent universe.

Combine AI-driven behavior with boundary-free universes, and we’re no longer talking about games as products. We’re talking about games as living ecosystems—ones that evolve with you, sometimes outsmart you, and blur the line between developer and player.

This is why I don’t think the future belongs to whoever drops the fastest console. It belongs to whoever redefines the stack: AI, diffusion models, decentralized platforms, and new frameworks for digital ownership. The winners won’t just make better games—they’ll be designing the blueprint for the next internet.

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Let’s build the new internet—one boss battle, render loop, and breakthrough at a time.

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