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

[DonFerrari]

Miguel_Zorro said:

DonFerrari said:

Well, Sony still keep bringing new IPs and a lot of SP games.

And we have seem they finance from indie through A-AA to AAA. Flower, Journey, The Last Guardian. Also HZD accompanied by UC4 and TLOU (both with the MP to add value, but there is still a lot of value on the SP), GoW3, etc.

I think Flower and Journey are good examples.  The others you listed all support the original point.  Uncharted 4 is hardly a small budget game without multiplayer.  

Well all that goes against the opinion of the Xbox boss.

It shows that you can have success with indie game with small budget and selling by 10-20 depending on the quality and size. You can have A-AA with well managed budgets selling for 60 USD up to 1M copies for very good profits like Nier Automata and a lot of Japan exclusive titles. And you can have high budget AAA that needs to sell 5-10M and bring in success.

MS is just on their comfort zone of saying they have a lot of exclusives, SP isn't much looked by users even if not dead, and just keep doing what they are doing. This woman is basically being apologetic about their ways.