Ahead Of E3 2019, Sony Says It Will Never Stop Making Story Games

Then you will keep getting my support for consoles.

Something tells me that AC, GTA V, RDR2 are showing that the genre isn't dead at all

A star wars single player game would have been great EA, if you did it right

The vast majority of the games as a service thing are barely average at best from my experience with them. I know for fact that I have played significantly more story driven games and enjoyed them than the shallow online games as a service thing. That is a personal experience but it would seem a few people on this board tend to be in the same boat.

Reminds me of Bethesda, releasing a statement in favour of single-player story games then almost immediately announce an online-only multiplayer game.

As much as Sony are saying (and doing) the right things, to be honest I don't think the industry in general is turning it's back on story-led games. A year or so ago, it did seem like it was going down the pan, but in recent times the multiplayer-only route is not quite the unstoppable be-all-and-end-all it was in, say, 2017. Even CoD is bringing it's campaign back.

That's good to hear. I couldn't care less about the online crap.

And to the people who are saying that story driven games are interactive movies with little gameplay. You couldn't be more clueless.

Spider-Man, Gears of war 4, The last of us, God of War, GTA 5, Days Gone, Assassins Creed, Uncharted and many many more. How could you be that ignorant to say these are interactive movies? Quality gameplay and story. Man, that are true, real games.

Either you live with mommy or you're 9 years old to be able to say such things......

Yeah, I'm a single player campaign kind of gamer and I hate how everything has been going massive online MP social lately. Many people won't touch a game unless they can play it with minimum 3 other people. I just can't get into battle royale games and twitch shooters are fun for an hour here and there but it's the deep immersive RPG's and single player campaigns that I love and they seem to be becoming an endangered species.

That's it, I'm not skipping the next PS. Meanwhile Origin doesn't even matter anymore, and they gave me Sims 4 for free!

EA - "Single player games are dead"

Sony - "Hold my beer and watch this"

Pretty sad and scary state of things when this has to be said at all! Story is one of the main things that draws me into games.

Now if only they would learn the dangers and stupidity of censorship, and the utter futility of kowtowing to the different outside groups and people (all types of whiny moralists new and old) who will never be happy until gaming content consists of either nothing but overt feel-good ideological propaganda, and or after school special/schoolhouse rock level drivel... Or worse, the former in the form of the latter.

In general they should really work on not inexplicably periodically shitting on whole segments of their gamer customers. (see the SEA RPG banishment attempt of the PS1 era, the 2D apocalypse of the PS2 era, the current censorship, the PS3 lockdown, the cross-play intransigence, the list goes on..)

that is why sony succeeds. sony knows what is best for the industry. thank god for playstation! :D

It worries me that they have to say something that should be obvious and taken for granted.

I personally buy games for the story more than the gameplay because I want to be lost in the world and lore and even basic controls and gameplay can keep me engaged to it I dont need realism or overtly complexed button combinations, combo memorizations to enjoy a game. This gen though kinda sucked storywise it wasnt that impressive. God of war story wasnt that good compared to its predecessors, same with metal gear solid that story stank compared to its predecessors. I would love more new story elements, days gone and uncharted have been done endlessly. Resident Evil can use a new plot, capcom can bring back megaman x as I want to see that story come back. a new action paced shooter with a nice story, cops, gangs, you name it. even ace combat should have a better plot as the last one was dull and boring yet the gameplay fantastic. Final fantasy was a let down when the animated movie was more interesting than anything shown in the game

Good for them.

Yay! More movie games. Gameplay optional.