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The PS5 action game Marvel’s Wolverine had already been a hot topic before and after launch over its 77 Metascore, overly linear story, and long list of bugs — and now a fresh controversy has erupted after players noticed a bizarrely warped restroom pictogram inside the game, fueling suspicion that generative AI was used to make it. On 5ch’s Hardware & Industry (Geha) board, posters argued it’s a design no human would ever produce, while others questioned Sony’s official line that it was simply a “texture mapping error.” The debate widened further as users pointed to another odd detail: the tears in Wolverine’s costume look more like cardboard than actual fabric.
What people said
This game truly never runs out of things to talk about
"Talked about" — but only ever for bad reasons
No human would ever come up with a design like this
Rough, they sank 50 billion yen into development for this
They should've cut these guys before cutting Kojima Productions😡
Wait, does this game actually not get hated?😄
We're at the point where no matter what 'No Disc' or Kojima do, Sony gets blamed for everything now
It's already surpassed FF16
FF16 was bland in both a good and a bad way, so…
This really does scream AI
Nah, Western fans are giving it a ton of attention (as a meme/toy)
but come on, at least run a basic quality check…
Had the AI test it and it said no issues, so it's all good!
but people have already shown that even an honest mistake wouldn't look like this lol
Maybe for a huge texture, but a tiny one like this shouldn't warp like that
it's literally just slapping on one flat image
feels like this'll be talked about as an all-time bad game for decades
Question is whether it can reach Concord-tier legendary status (Sony's infamous 2024 shooter pulled just weeks after launch)
It's probably not that they singled out the bathroom sign for AI — they likely made almost everything with generative AI and just happened to miss that this one came out broken
We're way past the 'will they patch it or not' stage at this point, as always
I don't even understand the excuse — if the UV map for a texture pasted on a flat surface came out wrong, doesn't that mean the UV map itself was made by AI?
What kind of bug even produces something that looks like this lol
That 'fart rail' idea (the game's much-mocked traversal gimmick) really does feel AI-generated🥺
Exactly
I don't think a human mind could come up with an idea that mocks humanity that hard
Can't be helped, they've laid off so many people there's barely any staff left
It's probably not that they went out of their way to use AI just for the bathroom sign — they made everything with AI and the bathroom one just happened to be the one broken enough to get caught
Is there something wrong with their judgment…?🤔
Is that thing made of paper?
Yeah, it really does look like cardboard lol
Real fabric tears along the weave, pulled vertically and horizontally with the grain
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Using generative AI to produce assets like textures and icons has been spreading across the game industry year after year, and while it cuts costs, quality checks are increasingly failing to keep pace, leading to more cases where unnatural results slip through and surface publicly. In this case, opinion split over Sony’s official explanation of a “texture mapping error”: some argued the distortion doesn’t match how an ordinary bug would typically behave, while others suspected an unchecked AI-generated asset had simply slipped through instead. Note that the “50 billion yen” development-cost figure repeated throughout the thread is an exaggeration used by posters, not an officially confirmed amount. Criticism of the game’s Metascore and overly linear progression predates this AI controversy, and the current uproar is best understood as an extension of that earlier backlash.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware & Industry / Geha) thread “[Sad News] Sony’s Wolverine Blows Up Over Generative AI Use Suspicions🔥“.
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