SvennoJ said:
Mythmaker1 said:
Suke said:
The console will still be online capable, I meant online multiplayer in games. What if multiplayer wasn't as big or didn't exist at all in games..... sorry
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Online not evloving on consoles at all, I can fathom. That ONLY online multiplayer would not arise is simply insane.
You can't make guesses or assumptions about a premise that is fundamentally irrational. It's like posing the question of "what if people never drank water?"
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The Wii seems to have done well without online multiplayer evolving.
I haven't played online on the WiiU yet either, games seem to work fine without.
Anyway without digital distribution, instead of season passes, small DLC expansions, map packs, car packs, hat packs, we would still have worthy disc based expansions that add 30 hours to the game.
More indie games would have disc based releases. After being succesful on PC compilation discs would make it to consoles. Maybe we would still have games magazines sold with discs full of demos and indie games.
The AA game would not face extinction. With money not going to online passes, DLC, map packs, online fees etc to support the few big titles that are played year round, more people might be inclined to try some new games.
Games shops would be doing a lot better and not need to milk the 2nd hand market to stay alive.
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Does the Wii not have online multiplayer? I was under the impression that it did.
And while the idea sounds good in theory, disc-based expansions were never very feasible, given the cost in bringing it to market. What's more likely is that more content would be disc-locked, and you would have to buy a code to unlock it, or CD-keys would be used to limit reselling.
More indie games would have disc-based releases, but fewer overall indies would make it to market because of the upfront cost. It's likely most would simply develop for PC, dragging out the process of eventually bringing them to console. As far as gaming magazines...how many are actually left?
As far as AA games go, that strikes me as a little overly optimistic. The trends that are killing AA games started long before those kind of practices became commonplace.
Regarding game shops, I disagree. Game shops aren't being killed by online multiplayer, they're being killed by big-box stores stealing their business.
