You might not know this if you don't actually play these games (Madden, 2K for NBA, MLB The Show), but the commentary is extremely high quality, sometimes comparable to the TV broadcast with riffs and tangents as well as describing the action. Over many years of producing these games they have continually refined the process. Of course, eventually you will hear repeating dialogue if you play the games enough, but I think the baseline quality is going to be _very_ hard to replicate with an LLM.

Yeah I was thinking the same. No more "They've really got to want to win this. This is a game of two halves. Etc."

Though tbh I found it still pretty annoying. Maybe just the tone of voice though, and it's clearly not actually connected to what's happening in the game.

I imagine the major sports game players are working on this.

None that I can think of. The Finals has AI generated voiceovers for its announcers, but in that case the lines are pre-written and voice clips generated ahead-of-time so it just reeks of penny-pinching by cutting out real voice actors, rather than using the tech to do things that genuinely weren't possible before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ87wiHps9s