Kotaku : Once upon a time, Shigeru Miyamoto famously said, “A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever.” It’s a statement that felt like it would never fall out of fashion, until it did. Modern games are never finished. Bad games become good. Good games become bad. Games of all stripes add social components, microtransactions, and events. On this week’s episode of the Splitscreen podcast, we talk about live service games, how they’ve taken over the industry, and how their dominance might finally be receding—a little bit.
Big Nintendo Hits for the Holidays Sale has started for Switch 2 and Switch with huge deals, and here's the full list.
Lucky for those who bought Cyberpunk for $17.49. They said they just made an error, so it's back to $70 now.
During CD Projekt's financial Q3 2025 financial conference call for investors and analysts, the studio's executives provided new details about their plans and business, including The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2, and more.
Good, for me it is better to show new content of this game with their own mini showcase.
There no way the gaming community will let CDPR release this when they want to
CD Projekt announced its financial results for Q3 of 2025, also providing an update about the sales of Cyberpunk 2077.
Started and stopped playing this game twice. Couldn't get into it. Gave it a 3rd try after the expansion and big update. Spent 120 hours on that playthrough and is now one of my favorite games.
Hey it happens. Sometimes it takes a bit for a game to click. The stars gotta align. I know it had its problems and controversies, but I had a good time. Double plat + DLC.
Tried to play this game when it was supposedly fixed but just couldn't get it to it. Very boring world to explore. Very confusing UI and menu's. Easy to see that the game was one's broken.
I had similar experience. The UI and Menu just feel very clustered and mixed together. I tried to give it a real chance by playing for 10ish hours just couldn't get into it
Will try again hopefully it will click. For all the love it gets I just find it hard to believe I don't like it when I love there types of games (open world, shooter, RPG elements, story choices etc)
I played it when it launched on ps5. I did every single side quest and did my playthrough as a net runner. I really should do another playthrough and do the dlc but I want to do this in VR if I can get a capable rig.
Huh? Comeback from... what? Single Player games never stopped being dominant. Not sure what this "article" is on about.
Lame Kotaku Clickbait
Even Wolfgang K. thinks this is something lame.
kotaku in the need of clicks. :D
Seriously SP games never left , and some of reasons why Playstation consoles are always on top in this gaming industry. ;)
Where did they go? I’m playing one right now.
This would be true.... if they ever went anywhere. Sounds like Phil Spencer circa 2017?
PlayStation has been dominating the gaming landscape for at least the past eight years largely due to SP games.
Take a look at the last eight consensus Game of the Year winners. FIVE of them are published by Sony, 5/8. That's an unprecedented run, and all of them were noted for their SP campaigns. More than half did not even feature mp at all and in the 2 of 3 years they did not win, they released seminal SP games like Bloodborne and HZD. Ofc Bloodborne has splashes of pve and pvp but it's largely a SP style game. And the other winners included SP titles such as Witcher 3, Zelda BotW, and Mordor.