Nowadays , You can see that the most hyped and the most played games are shooters. Well shooters and super smash brothers.

So basically the video game industry took a turn towards multiplayer games.

In every business aspect that is brilliant.

You're gonna need more controllers if you're multiplayer in one room so you sell more hardware.

Or in the case of microsoft you can sell online play.

So multiplayer games do cash in more then other games.

After realizing this, it burns a hole in my heart to realize that there is one genre that will falter and eventually dissapear because of the multiplayer craze.

The role playing game.

i am not talking about mmorpg's. But good old 80 hour long single player role playing games.

if you're talking to me this is the elite genre.

but my opinion is besides the fact here. It's clear that rpg's are going to dissapear for two reasons.

The first I mentioned earlier

MMORPG's. this brings the multiplayer that the industry is trying to sell, and it satisfies most rpg fans.

People might be drawn away by the price but the fact that you can play with your friends make mmo's worth it to most rpg fans.

So profit wise mmo's are a safe bet to most develping companies

The other factor that is killing rpg's is the video game price hike.

Assuming you had xbox live already. And you had 60 bucks.

Let's use for example halo 3 and blue dragon.

Assuming you would enjoy the games equally, which one would you buy.

Halo 3 of course. Because the storyline of blue dragon can only take you so far and then it's over.

But the multiplayer of halo 3 is going to keep you occupied until the next shooter that comes out

Standard rpg's can only offer so little bang for your buck.

As the prices of games rise throughout the generations of video games

Rpg's are going to be less and less intelligent investments.

The way the industry is going right now, there is no place for the role playing game on consoles.

They will live on through handhelds, for a while.

I haven't been happier since yesterday, when I popped tactics ogre into my ds.

Then I found games like lufia the ruins of lore and sword of mana.

All are spectacular and old rpg's for handhelds.

Plus with games like dqm joker and dragon quest IV coming out

Rpg's are going to be on handhelds for a while.

I'd say in one generation or maybe two.

Developers will have to stop making console role playing games, because the appeal is going down, and because there just won't be enough profit from this genre.