Single player only games on their way out?

How long before multiplayer completely supersedes single player games?

Or do you think there'll always be room for single player only titles?

Given how there are a billion single player titles, I'm guessing never.

Not yet I think witcher 3 sold like 10 million units and doesn't have any multiplayer.

Maybe the consoles will be going online only though, I could see that. If they wanna do always online 60 dollar digital games meh ill play my games my single player PC and cya later consoles your online garbo.

PC does everything, single player, multiplayer anything I want no paying for online lol oh dear.

Consoles always online, always checking, me out nah man, I'm on Windows 7. Online only that's your world consoles, that's YOU'RE ecosystem not mine. I'll die with my single player windows 7 PC.

Skyrim and Fallout 4 are laughing at you.

Witcher 3 is a thing.

Elder Scrolls is thing... apart from the online one that sucks.

On top of what everyone else has said above, Titanfall 2 has a singleplayer campaign.

As a dude who almost exclusively plays single player games and can't even keep up with a fraction of the games I want to play, I think single player games are doing alright.

And yeah, a lot of sp games might tack on a multiplayer mode or integrate online functionality into the core game, but that doesn't bother me.

Look at it this way:

Titanfall didn't have a single player. TF2 does.

Single player isn't going anywhere.

Every game should have coop campaign and split screen!

There will always be a market for both. I'm the type that love a good single player story with engrossing story, characters and gameplay. My cousin is mostly the opposite, he loves the competition aspect, especially in Mech Warrior online.

Deus Ex, Persona 5, Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy XV, ect....

There will always be single player only games, no matter how popular online only titles become.

How about never?

Single player games will always be popular because of their accessibility, ability to immerse you in the world, tell a good story, and be free of online trolling douche bags.

The day they stop making single player games is the day I stop playing games. No interest in multiplayer at all.

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i like online games, but so many of them you play and forget and never go back, either they disappear completely or you lose interest. Theres a lot of single player games i've played i'll always go back to and remember. Its crazy to think games will just go the multiplayer way, thats cutting out most of the people who don't even want that.

Look at Titanfall 2, they are going to put a single player campaign in the sequel because thats what people want, and one complaint about the first game was the lack of single player. Plus with multiplayer games, once the servers go offline, those games are unplayable and forgotten. Single player games can live on forever, especially on PC where you can emulate them and run them even on modern hardware with no problem.

If this happens, which I highly doubt it will, I'll be done with gaming.

@afrihan:

Unless you kill survival horror games like Last of Us and rpg's altogether then there will always be single player games.

I wish they would stop combining them to be honest. In my experience the best single player games have no multiplayer and the best multiplayer games have shit single player. Games would be better off if they focused on which type they want to be.

Agreed. Although those games offer a better value for money, it's usually better when a game is either focused on single player only, or multiplayer only.

Of course not. These "is single player dying" threads are stupid.

Witcher 3 says hi.

This was a discussion happening 5 years ago. There was even a push from publishers to turn everything online. It didn't work. Many of these experiments of trying to shoehorn multiplayer into single player games failed in varying degrees. Moreover many high profile single-player only games were released and a ton of indie games too.

Shenmue 3. :P

There will be more online only games (due to DRM or forced online features) from franchises that were once Single Player only but there will always be devs that will replace them with new Single Player IPs.

I recall people trying to predict the death of single player back when CoD4 was big.

^This.

Even Dead Space 2 had MP mode, and it flopped badly.

Witcher 3 says hello

Seems to me like SP is even stronger now than a couple of years ago. Lots of games that are predominantly SP wether they have some MP tacked on or not. Fallout 4, Witcher, Dishonored, Deus Ex, Horizon, Mass Effect etc etc.

The hardware requirements alone for developers to put in place and maintain multiplayer games is pretty expensive. Hundreds of computers to track performance. Terabytes, perhaps petabytes of storage. Untold amounts of cpus, server blades, server memory, and hundreds of workers, backup centers, etc. A 24/7/365 electricity bilI. Network backbone to maintain. I can't imagine they'd be profitable for very long without their bread and butter single player games.