ⓘ Hoyoverse.com
The global mobile gaming industry is undergoing a major shift in spending as Pocket Gamer Connects Barcelona kicks off. Shanghai publisher HoYoverse plans to invest 14.6 billion dollars into internal generative artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next three years, according to official reports via the media.
The strategy, outlined by HoYoverse co-founder Liu Wei during a private presentation in Beijing, focuses entirely on vertical integration. Instead of licensing third-party large language models from commercial tech providers, the studio is establishing a self-contained computing ecosystem. This requires building proprietary graphics processing unit clusters and developing custom model-training frameworks for active live-service games.
Deploying advanced language models in Petit Planet
The publisher will use this framework to automate coding pipelines and deliver real-time content personalization. The first public test for this pipeline is Petit Planet, the company’s upcoming cozy life simulation title that recently concluded its Stardrift closed beta phase on mobile platforms and PC.
Traditional life simulation games rely on hardcoded dialogue trees that loop once exhausted. HoYoverse plans to deploy proprietary natural language processing models directly into the game logic to allow non-player characters to engage in unscripted, dynamic conversations. These digital villagers analyze player choices and environmental changes on each planetoid, adapting their routines and verbal responses on the fly.
A high-stakes gamble on live service scaling
This capital allocation separates HoYoverse from competitors using automated tools purely to reduce production overhead. It represents a direct gamble on long-term player retention and infrastructure independence.
Addressing the technical risks inherent to the project, Liu Wei noted to doctoral students that if the pipeline fails to achieve its goals, the studio will view the capital loss as an elaborate fireworks display. As PGC Barcelona begins, the sheer scale of this investment sets a new baseline for live service backend spending.
HoYoverse’s massive backend investment underscores a widening gap in how next-generation titles scale across platforms. For a closer look at how these technical demands play out in real-time—including how the latest crossover event pushed Wuthering Waves near 50,000 concurrent Steam players while pushing mobile hardware to its limits.
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