FromSoftware's Single-Player Promise & Physical Sales Drop - Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:01] today's gaming news from Software comments on its future single player plans. 77 First Light is a big hit, but more data shows the sad state of physical game sales. This is your daily fix.

[00:23] for the Dust Bloods with a network test. Coming off its most recent game, Elder Ring Night, which is a cooperative multiplayer experience, and now PVPVE wondering if the studio has another single player game lined up. Rest

[00:36] eggs into the multiplayer basket. As part of an interview we had with From Software president and the Dustb Bloods director, Hitittaka Miyazaki, we asked if doing back-to-back multiplayer games was indicative of the direction the team

[00:48] Software is not done making single player games. He said, "We still have a well. This is just something that happened to work out the way it did." really any big plan that these two games would both release next to each other.

[01:03] anything, it's like the more you work on something multiplayer for a long time, it scratches that itch only to want to make something single player again." Be Miyazaki where he talks about partnering with Nintendo, future plans for the Dust

[01:16] Bloods, and more. Moving on, James Bond video game blockbuster 007 First Light months. That's with the game's Nintendo Switch 2 launch still to come. Today, IO First Light further with an array of post-launch updates, including a new

[01:31] mission starring Pirate King Bama, portrayed by Lenny Kravitz, plus additional tax sim challenges, weapons, and cosmetics, as well as a photo mode. A sequel hasn't been announced yet, but seems inevitable. What else is working

[01:44] scale back work on its under wraps fantasy RPG codenamed Project Dragon, from Xbox, which has its own problems that we all know about. And speaking of video game sales, new data shows that physical software dollar sales plunged

[01:59] to an all-time July low of $85 million in the US. That's the worst total since tracking began in 1995. Circana's July video games report reveals that for the physical software for PlayStation hardware accounted for 32% of total US

[02:15] consumer spending on new physical games. Games made for Nintendo platforms made up 63% of year-to-ate spending on new physical software. Xbox wasn't heels of Sony's shock announcement that it will end the production of physical

[02:28] discs for PlayStation games in 2028. The announcement has sparked a significant be seen whether or not that will result in any real world repercussions. When Sony announced its decision, it said it was simply following consumer trends,

[02:41] this from Circana. July was a particularly bad month for video game data reveals total US video game spending dropped 10% year-on-year with hardware spending plummeting 29% off the

[02:54] launch of Nintendo Switch 2 as well as price rises for PlayStation and Xbox. Circana said hardware spending fell to a low not seen since July 2020 when challenges made finding new video game hardware extremely difficult.

[03:09] category showing growth in July versus a year ago. In a poor month all round, as the bestselling game of July in dollar sales driven by the release of a PS4 and PS5 port. And that is your daily fix for Thursday,

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