| wfz said: Strange. I recall playing lots of multiplayer games on the NES and SNES..... The idea that single player gaming rose up because of some sort of lack of ability to do multiplayer gaming is completely wrong. And if that was the case that it was a gimmick only used because multiplayer was unavailable, people wouldn't still be buying single-player games such as Skyrim... |
Not because of an inability to do multiplayer, but out of a commercial necessity to make sure that everyone who bought a game could play it. Having a game require 2 or more players would limit your sales potential quite a bit in the pre-internet days.
Don't conflate the term "gimmick" with "fad". He's not saying that just because multiplayer is now technologically feasible in a way it wasn't before, that means single-player is going away. He explicitly said otherwise.
Did you actually read the article, son? Be honest!
