Phil Harrison thinks we don’t want single player games

Phil Harrison has said that Atari’s Alone in the Dark may be among the last of a dying breed, as consumers no longer want single player experiences.
"Alone in the Dark is a beautifully crafted single-player adventure game. I don’t think the industry is going to make many more of those," states the slender-necked Atari ship-jumper. "I just don’t think consumers want to be playing games that don’t have some kind of network connectivity to them, or some kind of community embedded in them, or some kind of extension available through downloadable content."
Really? I guess I can only speak for myself, but I love a good story-based single player game, and would hate to see every single videogame turn into a deathmatch. BioShock proved that single player games well well, and Grand Theft Auto IV would have still shifted millions without its multiplayer component — a feature often overlooked in favor […]

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