The whole single-player thing has started up again. But why are people talking about it when games with fantastic campaigns are selling so well? Here's why!
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Its a ccc article. So on its face you know its gonna be trashy. The truth is simple. Single player games were never questioned until Phil Spencer tried to dismiss them. He even mentions two of his competitors stellar efforts in his speech. Microsoft uses Phil as a tool to wrap the minds of the people who trust him. When did Microsoft last put effort into making a quality single player on par with GOW before sending Phil to dismiss them? They were doing well before he started slob knobbing on EA and they will exist after he is gone. Quality breeds attention and attention leads to higher sales. What some of these companies hope to bring you (Sony even made comments advocating this practice) is service based low budget content (Sea of Thieves) to keep you paying constantly, like a new bill, while expecting you to even 'make your own fun'.
In short, it is the goal of some publishers to make us think that single player games aren't wanted to drive their narritive to shoehorn us into services to increase their profits. That is it. There is nothing else.
There is no dilemma, just some publishers spouting BS
Delete please
There is no single player dilemma, I always have a single player game on the go and still have a huge back catalogue to go through. Sony have focused this gen on offering a large diverse lineup of mostly single player focused games and are currently in a league of their own in terms of dominance.
Only dilemma I see is MTs being linked to gambling and the legal implications associated with that. Thanks largely to EA's greed, we're seeing more and more questions get asked about the ethical nature of MTs and more and more reviews have started to cover just how intrusive they are as a standard. That's a potentially far bigger dilemma for the industry than good ol single player games.
Sony and Nintendo sure do have a serious dilemma on their hands
The fastest selling games on PS4 & NS are single player titles. Oh the inhumanity whatever will these publishers do? 🤨