Red Dead Redemption 2 Publisher Says Single-Player Games Are Not Dead, “Not Even Close”
Paolo Sirio
There’s been a lot of discussion and controversy about the rise of multiplayer titles, which at a certain point around last year were seemingly putting at risk the existence itself of single-player games.
Since then, like the period when Visceral Games was shut down and battle royale became a genre of its own, things have luckily enough returned to a more reasonable path thanks to the efforts of Bethesda, Sony, and few other publishers.
Talking about the matter, Strauss Zelnick, CEO at Take-Two Interactive, has insisted that single-player experience are not dead at all as they prepare to launch Red Dead Redemption 2 on October 26, 2018, for PS4 and Xbox One.
“Historically, in entertainment, people take positions like that, but there are also people saying that it won’t work if it’s not a free-to-play battle royale,” Zelnick told GamesBeat in a recent interview.
“People really are saying that, and not even tongue-in-cheek. I don’t buy that. Single-player, in my opinion, is not dead, not even close. Companies that feel like they’ll just avoid the hard work of building a story and characters and go right to where the money is in multiplayer, I don’t think that’s going to work. I’d be surprised.”
Well, if he says so! Hopefully, this commitment will be further expanded when Red Dead Redemption 2 releases later this year thanks to additional single-player content, which has been missing a lot from GTA V.
Source: VentureBeat
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