By Alanah Pearce:
"At every video game event I’ve been to for the past six months, including this year’s E3, I’ve asked a wide variety of game developers about the future of single-player games. Even though we’re still getting enormous single-player successes like God of War, it’s undeniably easier to monetize multiplayer experiences, and I think that’s how this fear of the “death of single player games” has shown up in pockets of the gaming community. The notion even goes back to 2011, with Mark Cerny, lead architect of the PlayStation 4, saying: “Right now you sit in your living room and you’re playing a game by yourself – we call it the sp mission or the single-player campaign. In a world with Facebook I just don’t think that’s going to last.”
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Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-
I think the only game here for me is Nine Sols. Was always interested in that game.
Good month for me, I wanted that particular footy game and thought it might be due. Anyway who cares, shame about the site I'll miss the comment sections. All the best everyone.
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There's no denying that Twitch may be deluding some people thinking watching a game being played out is enough when the point of video games is playing them yourself, but GoW sales still show there's a big market for SP games, and there will always be. Why? Because we saw this happen before when CoD was the threat back them making every other game have tacked on MP and how people got sick of it, or when ubisoft popularized Open world with towers and how everyone is sick of it, including ubisoft themselves.
It is very easy to look at trends and try to get a piece of the pie, but that's the problem (not to mention not every one will become a success). everyone wants to do the same thing. Sony and Nintendo are doing right by sticking to what they do best and let the fad wear off itself.
I just can't comprehend watching a game and not playing it and experiencing it! If Twitch had of been a thing in the 90's I'd just of ignored it like I do now.
I only watch horror games because I'm too scared to play them
I like watching every now and then to see if it's a game I'd really want to play, wait for a sale or avoid completely. It saved me from getting No Man's Sky and Sea of Thieves. I was also pretty skeptical about God Of War but once I saw enough gameplay that satisfied me I went ahead and bought it.
No. Single player games are probably hurting streamers more because people do not want to spoil the game.
The big streamers I saw, all dropped drastically in numbers.. so much, some stopped streaming the game due to loses twitch prime subs.