Acti shows new Call of Duty, Bizzare racer, more
Valve confirms over 32 million retail sales - details
The VG247 Community Awards 2008 - with prizes!
May 23rd, 2008 @ 11:14
Speaking to Gamasutra, Atari games boss Phil Harrison has admitted that Alone in the Dark may well be the final “core” game Atari makes.
“I don’t see that we’re going to be making huge-budget, single-player games in the future,” he said.
“Now, that doesn’t mean that we won’t have ambition to do really incredible games that have high quality, high execution, and high innovation, but they won’t be one-player, narrative-driven, start-middle-end games.”
We’re interviewing Phil later today. Anything you want us to ask him?
Del.icio.us | Digg | Share on Facebook
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
the site wont let me make an order. I tried earlier but got the following error after clicking checkout,...
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
I told you, didn’t I…
Single player games are old hat.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Does he shave or wax?
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
That statement just seems so narrow-minded. Yes, multi-player and “sandbox” gaming is increasingly popular, but I do think the majority of gamers still go for that “one-player, narrative-driven, start-middle-end” experience. Sure, Halo 3 and GTA IV (the two biggest games of recent memory) offer a lot more beyond that, but at their heart they’re still both traditional one-player games with a story to play through and finish.
Unless Atari is going to become a studio that concentrates on MMOs, sports/racers or arena/tournament-style FPS games, I really don’t see where they’re going.
Kind of ironic that Phil should say this when Alone in the Dark is pretty much the only Atari title that has any sort of buzz around it at the moment. You’d think they’d want to capitalize on that (potential) success.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Is Atari jumping on the Wii Fit bandwagon as well then?
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
How is he going to stop American kids calling everyone fags?
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Automated wanker detection should do the trick.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
haha. I’ll definitely ask him about the fag thing.
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
That’ll be the last Atari game i buy then. Co-op is fine but i don’t want it in every game! I like to do things on my own at times, get immersed in a game without having to deal with other people.
Maybe i’m strange.
*shrugs*
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Adding multi-player doesn’t necessarily mean taking out single-player, Phil!
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Oh yeah, ask him about the PS3 version, Pat.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Blimey, somebody tell Squenix, quick. Final Fantasy XIII and Dragon Quest IX are going to be total disasters what with their outdated single-player only gameplay.
What a berk.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
To be fair, he didn’t say those games were “over”, just that Atari wouldn’t be doing them any more. And given the fact that Atari’s output over the last couple of years has been pretty nasty, that’s not really very surprising.
I suspect they’ve finally realised that they don’t have the clout to go head to head with EA and Activision and have instead decided to take on someone a bit easier. Like… er… Nintendo. Oh.