EA: Single-Player Only Games Are Finished

Take a look at recent high profile game releases and see how many games have focus on a single-player only experience. Very few. Previous single-player only games Dead Space and BioShock have gone multiplayer. The only exception to this are RPGs, with Fallout: New Vegas still a single person affair.

That’s also to change according to EA that games that lack an online component are “finished” in business terms because “online is where the innovation, and the action, is at”.

Speaking to Develop, EA Games label president Frank Gibeau said:

“I volunteer you to speak to EA’s studio heads, they’ll tell you the same thing,” he said. “They’re very comfortable moving the discussion towards how we make connected gameplay – be it co-operative or multiplayer or online services – as opposed to fire-and-forget, packaged goods only, single-player, 25-hours-and you’re out.”

“I think that model is finished,” he added. “Online is where the innovation, and the action, is at.”

via Gamasutra