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53% of gamers prefer single-player games (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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A new survey has found that over half of gamers prefer to play single-player titles.

According to Midia Research, this game mode is most popular across all platforms – particularly on mobile, with 58% of respondents saying they preferred single-player games.

The data from the survey was collected from Midia Research's Q1 2024 and Q1 2023 consumer surveys across the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Poland, Turkey, and South Africa.

Research found that older gamers were more drawn to single-player titles, with 74% of gamers aged over 55 choosing to play games solo.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Couch co-op can be difficult, because it often means having to run the game twice on the same machine. The devs of Windrush also found that it made it harder for players to keep track of where they were (with a single player they can fix the center of the screen on the player)

That said, yes, more couch co-op please. I'd settle for cheaper second copies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it often means having to run the game twice on the same machine.

Not quite that much. A sane game would run all players in the same simulation, assuming they're in the same map. Multiple cameras would increase the amount of stuff drawn on screen, but at least the amount of pixels to calculate stays same, which helps a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

True, true, but often you need to scale everything to cater to the number of players.

Cyberpunk with all the pedestrians and cars, for one, but then you'd have to make them consistent between the players too.

It's a lot of processing, but you're right not literally a second game.