X360A writes:
"The release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood this month marked the wave of a new era where predominantly single-player experiences started to introduce an online component. BioShock 2 led the charge earlier this year, receiving mixed results in the process, while Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood followed much later, but to a much warmer response. Next year Dead Space 2 is set to continue that trend in January 2011 and even Mass Effect is rumoured to be having a dabble. So what we have here is four huge single-player franchises, all of which are/may be setting their sights on the multiplayer arena."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I sure F'in hope not!
What's funny is that most of these games that have multiplayer are usually dead after a couple of months. Killed by Halo, Call of Duty, or Battlefield that most gamers eventually go back to play. So what's the damn point of even adding a muliplayer? Just focus on the single player and to hell with the multiplayer. Or at least give us some offline muliplayer bots to keep us playing.
Story mode and single player is all I care about, to me, multiplayer is the gimmick here.
GTA IV, MGS IV, iNFamous, Uncharted, LA Noire, Red Dead, Gran Turismo, Forza, Burnout, Demon's Souls, Valkyria Chronicles, Bioshock, Elder Scrolls, FL0WER-- and many more beg to differ.
Some of these games have also added a MP component without hurting themselves IMO.
The thing though, is that MP games last longer than SP games. This is natural. As a result they tend to get more attention. When you beat a scripted SP game, you are usually done with it. A MP game is much more dynamic in that sense, hence why people come back to it.
One Hour with a SP game stays with me much longer than 500 hours put into COD. That's not to say I haven't enjoyed my MP gaming, but single player is the backbone of gaming as an art, IMO, and it will never die. There is an irreplaceable aspect to playing a well crafted story in a well crafted SP game that MP cant achieve. They are two sides to an amazing coin.
They've taken a back seat to MP, but this is very well expected with the console-internet generation.
The only issue with Single Player games this gen is that people are turned off by this generation's high entry fee and shorter SP games usually result in people waiting for price drops, skipping SP games, or buying them used which can screw SP developers.
MP isn't affected by this because many people seem to justify price as "virtually infinite", and with things like online passes, dlc, etc. MP gaming will continue be the source of extra profit.
Yea i read an article just like this like every two to three months.. Yea there fucking stupid. Never going to happen i buy games for the story and only for story.. This will never be taken from games