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Braben: Used sales are killing single player games
The market for used games is helping kill off the core-orientated single player-only game, according to UK industry veteran David Braben. Speaking in an interview with Gamasutra, the Elite creator and boss of Kinectimals developer Frontier Developments argued that stores are less likely to re-order single player titles as gamers are more likely to trade them in once they’ve finished them. As a result, developers are less inclined to make them as they don’t see a return. “The real problem when you think about it brutally, if you look at just core gamer games, pre-owned has really killed core games,” he said. Read more…
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