Multi-player is more important than single-player nowadays. The best selling games list of each platform (Nintendo, Microsof, Sony) mostly have multi-player features. The importance of them is so obvious that even a game like The Last of Us 2 will get a multi-player version eventually although I have no idea how they will manage to turn it into a multi-player game
To say single player games is what sells consoles when the best selling lists says the opposite... well I'm not really buying it. Or do you think people buy Fifa to play it alone ?
However I agree if a multi-player game is available in two platforms the choice will change from pricing, performance and userbase. PS5 and Series X have similar prices and neglible performance gap, Sony is already in advantage because it has far bigger brand and fandom loyalty. You can literally bring your PS4 library to PS5 for free and play them in higher quality, so why change to another platform?
A hint people ignores when talking about console sales: People, overall, dislike changes. They will change only they absolutely needs to. If you favorite brand is dissapointing you then you can find something else, but seeing how no PS home console sold anything less than 80 million copies in almost 30 years is hard to believe the majority of Playstation customers wants to go somewhere else.
Last edited by IcaroRibeiro - on 29 August 2021
