According to SIE’s Warwick Light, currently, there’s still a huge audience for single-player games that offer the best narrative and stunning gameplay.
You might have read a lot of articles stating Singleplayer Games are dying and the new talk of the town in the gaming industry are the multiplayer games like Fortnite, PUBG, and others. No doubt multiplayer gaming department has seen a massive jump in terms of both popularity and the revenue the publishers generate from them, but making a claim that this has come at a cost of single-player games would be a foolish thing. In 2018, many single-player games did live up to the hype and expectations of the fans, and most of these games were from the first of Sony’s first-party studios, for example, God of War (it won the Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2018) plus Entertainment Weekly named this masterpiece from Santa Monica Studio as the NUMBER 1 Best Game of 2018 (check the tweet below), Spider-Man PS4, Detroit Become Human, and many more.
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The massive success of these Playstation first-party single-player games in 2018 do raise a big question in my mind (and I hope that most of the PlayStation Community also thinks like this) – what is that one reason that has made Sony not lose their faith in the single-player games and they continue to keep their focal point at a thing that they believe in rather than going after the latest trend in the gaming industry?
In a recent interview with our friend at MCVUK (published in issue 942), Warwick Light (Vice President & Managing Director at SIE, and handles some important regions: United Kingdom, IE, and Australasia) replied to the above question, and the statement that caught our eyes was Playstation gamers demand single-player gamers, and there is a huge audience for a single-player games with the best narrative and stunning gameplay.
Hey gang, looks like this honor dropped today (via @EW) — should we throw a party or something? @SonySantaMonica #GodofWar pic.twitter.com/9LP5CIaIdb
— Orion Walker #GodOfWar (@theorionwalker) December 9, 2018
You can read the full statement of Warwick Light below.
“While 2018 was indisputably a big year for Fortnite, it was also a year which saw us really act like a publisher and focus on our exclusive titles whether it was God of War, Spider-Man, Detroit or VR titles such as Astro Bot.
Buzzwords are one thing, what our players are demanding is another. There’s still a huge audience for games that offer the best in the single player narrative with stunning gameplay, as witnessed by the enormous popularity of both Spider-Man and God of War in this year’s charts. I was just at the Golden Joysticks – God of War won five!”
This should clear Playstation fans concern that they have been living with for the past few months that at some point in the near future SIE’s focal point will shift towards the new trend in multiplayer gaming and it will be at a cost of the single-player games.
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