Xbox boss Response on Single-Player Games - Economics Are "Complicated"

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AlfredoTurkey said:
She's right. Very few single player games go on to make the kind of money that multiplayer games do. BOTW, no matter how successful, won't even begin to make the revenue of COD and any other mainstream title that has tons of opportunities to make more money after the initial purchase.

It dosent need to, since(at least from the hardware manufacturer perspective) the game will bring in hardware sales, which in turn brings more software sales(both third and first party), which brings more games to the platform, which brings even more sales, and so on.

First party games primary objective is to sell the hardware.And for Nintendo and Sony, they are doing the job exceptionally.