Non devs: forced to use AI tools. Devs: officially not forced but so strongly encouraged that it's de facto forced. Personally I agree with both the reasoning and execution of this process shift.
This is very encouraging. There appears to be non-trivial innovation here and that has me excited. I too am interested in how the controller will handle fighting games. The haptic feedback seems particularly interesting because It seems possible that just maybe there could be an effect similar to the one described here:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/27/disney-tactil...
that might allow fingers to "feel" as though there were buttons or edges or some similar effect. That might allow for a precise and traditionally intuitive fighting game experience as well as interesting new applications.