Editorials: We Need Single Player PS4 & Xbox One Games

Every year, game makers and publishers stuff specific trends into their games. This year, we have two of these themes: Alexa as your personal gaming assistant and games completely divorced from what anyone would consider a robust single-player experience. Alexa in everything doesn’t bother me. A potential drop in single-player games released each year absolutely does.
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Despite saving for weeks to get it and trading away a ton of accessories to afford it, I sold my Xbox Elite Controller. Not since purchasing The Legend of Korra for Xbox One have I made a mistake this bad.
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I didn’t realize it when it started, but Monday would be the first day of a four-day tech high for me. Maybe you don’t know what a tech high is, but you’ve probably experienced one. It happens when all the stars align just right. You’re researching something cool that you were only mildly interested in. Then, as if you’re returning to a police station to claim a bag of money that no one else did, you get excited. Your heart flutters. You realize that the piece of tech you’re looking at could change everything. Last Monday I purchased the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier.  
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“why would anyone buy books from Microsoft when they can already get them in better places?” As this was coming from the same guy that has a 30 item collection strong movie selection in Microsoft Movies & TV, plus an extensive Xbox One games library with no disc, he was a bit taken aback.
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If we’re already paying full price for title, why is it ok for video game DLC to cost even more? I asked a few people they buy it.
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I once infamously claimed that Windows 8 was fine. I said – publicly – that people who didn’t like Microsoft’s efforts to modernize Windows should be “dragged kicking and screaming” into the modern era. I’ve aged enough to know that comment was pretty, though I’m sure I could probably dig up worse things I’ve said on Twitter. By the time Microsoft was ready to release Windows 10, I’d matured. Sure, I liked the operating system and the Surface Pro 4 that the company introduced soon after its Windows 10 launch. I’d been using the new software for months. It was fine, but I urged people to hold off on upgrading. I wanted normal users to take themselves out of the line of fire. I didn’t want anyone loading the operating system on their device and finding a completely broken experience.
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