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Naum on 30 October 2017

99% of all games I buy have/is single player games.



If it isn't turnbased it isn't worth playing   (mostly)

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DonFerrari on 30 October 2017

And none of them are Multiplayer focused... although some couch co-op from Sony would be wellcome.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 30 October 2017
SpokenTruth said:
Barkley said:

I saw one person saying multiplatform singleplayer games are dead... not really applicable to this thread.

Find him and eviscerate his children.

Or suggest some great single player multiplatform titles.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=232442&page=1# this Xbox boss and some vgc folks



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 30 October 2017
GribbleGrunger said:
Bandorr said:
I'd go with single player is NOT dead and remove the first line.

Better to be upbeat and right by default than aggressive and showing why others are wrong.

It's just playing on the fact that one of the last threads I posted was 'Sony Are Idiots'. Just having fun because video games are 'fun'. 

It also answer that small provocation that Sony launched few new IPs this gen ¬¬"



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

deskpro2k3 on 30 October 2017

There is a lot of awesome single player games to play on PS, This is why I don't have PS+ anymore. Lol



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Oneeee-Chan!!! on 30 October 2017

And Kirby Yoshi .

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DonFerrari on 30 October 2017

Just wished to post this comment from another thread with Shaw Layden commenting on SP.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8608301

 

Microsofts - Loftis (on single player games): 
"I don't think that it's dead per se,"
"I do think the economics of taking a single-player game and telling a very high fidelity multi-hour story get a little more complicated" 

Sony - Shawn Layden (on single player games):
“My philosophy is to play to my strengths,”

“And if you look at the studios we have – Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, Santa Monica Studio, Japan Studio – that’s what we do well. We do story. We create characters.”

“Those are the kind of things we do well. It’s what we’re known for. It really speaks to our entertainment DNA. We wish to entertain. We wish to make you happy. We wish to make you cry. That whole range of emotions we can pluck at to make you have a great experience. We’re big on character. We’re big on story.”

Sony still believes in makeing Single player experiances, proof is in the pudding.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

JRPGfan on 30 October 2017
SpokenTruth said:
Dead? According to whom?

"I don't think that it's dead per se,"

"I do think the economics of taking a single-player game and telling a very high fidelity multi-hour story get a little more complicated"  - Loftis


Loftis doesnt believe you can do multi-hour story driven AAA single player games.
You want single player... go look at the indies... is bascially what was said.

I cant get over the quote..... by the head of the xbox First party publishing department.

I love single player games, and usually dont play much multiplayer ones.



Finale on 30 October 2017

It's not dead,and never was.The idea of just multiplayer being profitable is just an stupid believe that some executives of certain publishers have.Just like the idea of turn-based rpg's not being profitable,even with a lot of counter-examples in the market.These things come and go with time.



DonFerrari on 30 October 2017
SpokenTruth said:
JRPGfan said:

"I don't think that it's dead per se,"

"I do think the economics of taking a single-player game and telling a very high fidelity multi-hour story get a little more complicated"  - Loftis


Loftis doesnt believe you can do multi-hour story driven AAA single player games.
You want single player... go look at the indies... is bascially what was said.

Like I said to DonFerrari, it seems his issue is that they can't financially exploit gamers in single player games as much as they can with multiplayer games.

I would have to agree, too much investment, risk and low opportunity to nick and dime userbase



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."