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Why did Unity's stock price drop? And the potential impact

Unity's stock price dropped, directly triggered by Google's release of the AI world-generation tool Project Genie. The market is concerned that AI may lower the barrier to 3D content creation, weakening Unity's long-term advantages in the "creation gateway" and prototyping stages.

From a fundamental perspective, there is no substantial short-term impact: Project Genie currently cannot replace Unity's engineering capabilities, performance optimization, and complete ecosystem in commercial-grade game development, with limited effects on existing projects and revenue. This drop is more of an early repricing of sentiment and valuation.

But in the medium to long term, there are indeed potential pressures:

AI tools may divert new developers and education/independent creators, affecting Unity's user growth rate and pricing power, and weakening its "3D real-time content infrastructure" valuation narrative.

The long-term impact depends on whether Unity can deeply integrate AI into its workflow, otherwise it may face gradual fundamental erosion.

👉 Overall, this is a reassessment of expectations triggered by AI changing the way content is created, not an immediate deterioration of Unity's fundamentals.