This isn't the first article here pondering whether single-player games are "dying", and yet I still don't understand where the question even is coming from.
This year has seen an utter barrage of new releases and yet only a handful of those are high-profile multiplayer-only games. Nintendo is putting a lot of chips on the multiplayer side with releases like Splatoon, Arms and a port of Mario Kart 8, whilst third-party publishers so far haven't actually put out any multiplayer game without at least a storyline that can be played through solo. Even the likes of For Honour and Destiny 2 have a story campaign.
I'm just not seeing why you guys are suddenly so concerned about single-player dying out. Are multiplayer-focused games with microtransactions and lootboxes the most lucrative right now? Sure. But it's not a binary situation, fortunately. Overwatch's success does not mean a game like Horizon: Zero Dawn, Resident Evil 7 or Persona 5 cannot also come out to commercial success.
It reminds me of publishers arbitrarily deciding that horror games were dead, last gen. They eventually learned that that wasn't the case, and they'll do the same with this. Eventually.
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Re: Poll: Do You Think Single Player Games Are Really In Danger of Dying Out?
This isn't the first article here pondering whether single-player games are "dying", and yet I still don't understand where the question even is coming from.
This year has seen an utter barrage of new releases and yet only a handful of those are high-profile multiplayer-only games. Nintendo is putting a lot of chips on the multiplayer side with releases like Splatoon, Arms and a port of Mario Kart 8, whilst third-party publishers so far haven't actually put out any multiplayer game without at least a storyline that can be played through solo. Even the likes of For Honour and Destiny 2 have a story campaign.
I'm just not seeing why you guys are suddenly so concerned about single-player dying out. Are multiplayer-focused games with microtransactions and lootboxes the most lucrative right now? Sure. But it's not a binary situation, fortunately. Overwatch's success does not mean a game like Horizon: Zero Dawn, Resident Evil 7 or Persona 5 cannot also come out to commercial success.
It reminds me of publishers arbitrarily deciding that horror games were dead, last gen. They eventually learned that that wasn't the case, and they'll do the same with this. Eventually.