Igarashin mukaan yksinpelit eivät ole vaarassa kadota

Koji Igarashi muistetaan Castlevania-sarjan isänä, ja mies työstää tällä hetkellä peliään Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Kyseessä on yksinpeli, ja nehän ovat koko ajan katoamassa ainakin verkkokeskusteluiden ja yrityspomojen ennustelujen mukaan. Kuitenkin viimeksi yksinpeli Spider-Man osoitti moiset puheet vääriksi jälleen kerran.

Igarashi otti kantaa yksinpelien tulevaisuuteen Games Industryn haastattelussa. Hänen mukaansa yksin- ja moninpelien kohderyhmät ovat erilaiset, jolloin toinen ei tule korvaamaan toista. Yksinpeleissä juuri indie-pelit ovat tällä hetkellä se paras paikka kokeilla uusia ideoita.

"I think things won't change, because there is a difference between people who play single-player games and people who play multiplayer games, as much as there are differences between people who are introverts and extroverts. There isn't anything we need to do [to ensure single-player games can sustain themselves]. There will always be people who enjoy playing single-player games more than multiplayer games."

"It's very difficult that multiplayer games are so profitable, but single-player games are where a lot of indie games come in. With single-player, you can create the game you want to create. We leave multiplayer games up to the larger publishers looking into the market, but it's very adventurous to create a single-player game with larger publishers. We started out as a Kickstarter project, and before we started the project, a lot of larger publishers said there wasn't much of a market for sidescroller games [like Bloodstained]. But we proved them wrong by having a successful campaign.

"With the rise of multiplayer games, I don't think single-player is in danger. A game doesn't have to be profitable, it just has to break even."