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He's not completely wrong. If you are going to make a state of the art single player game, like Horizon: Zero Dawn, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Quantum Break or FFXV, you are reliant on very good sales to make your money back. In that regard, the ever improving graphics is a boot on single player game development, and will continue to be, until we can reduce the amount of people it takes to make a state of the art video game.

But not all games need huge budgets - Nintendo is a master at making single player games with relatively low budgets, and Microsoft's own Ori is another example.