richardhutnik on 20 January 2010
| bmmb1 said: I find this real funny (or maybe, more accurately, ironic) - perhaps pretty soon people who like a story/SP will find themselves in the same situation as Wii owners find themselves today - lots of developers will not want to develop their kind of games. Today lots of PS360 fans say they can't stand the thought of Wii graphics - tomorrow those of them that value a story/SP/immersiveness ("games as art") may find themselves on the wrong side of the road, with no one wanting to develop for them. Oh the irony. |
Multiplayer, with a large following, keeps games from hitting the used market, and thus cost developers sales. The money calls the shots. You can find stuff like Civilization though, which is single player, and has good replayability. You lose crafted story when you go with replayability, and it is replaced with people creating their own narratives. The industry is hitting a crossroads where the creation of story-driven single player experiences is getting to be too expensive to be able to do as much as is financially viable.
