South Korean builders behind profitable video games like Stellar Blade and Lies of P are reporting a surge of curiosity in single-player video games each at house and overseas. Korean studios have lengthy been related to cell, free-to-play, and on-line video games, however are actually leaning in the direction of single-player console and PC experiences.
Stellar Blade and Lies of P devs see development in single-player market
As reported by Sport Developer, shuttered publication Sport Informer interviewed a bunch of Korean devs in its last subject, who reported a motion away from F2P and cell video games at house. Nevertheless, there’s some distinction of opinion between the builders over the console market’s potential for additional development within the area.
Shift Up revealed that solely 5% of Stellar Blade’s PS5 gross sales got here from the Korean market, and reckons that single-player video games will do higher if launched on each consoles and PC. CEO Kim Hyung-tae thinks that the single-player market has a greater shot at development on PC, which is why he’s contemplating releasing Stellar Blade on the platform.
Round8 Studio held a extra stringent view, with CEO Jason Park stating that solely a “mounted variety of individuals” in Korea play single-player video games on each consoles and PC. He added that Lies of P was made for a world viewers, which is the place it discovered success. However Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss disagreed, and identified that the console market has grown in Korea.
What the group unanimously agrees on, nonetheless, is making extra single-player video games and opening themselves as much as new audiences past their house turf. Apparently, budding builders in Korea really feel the identical, they usually aren’t as eager on cell video games because the nation as soon as was.
