Denis Dyack, the outspoken boss of Canadian outfit has taken a break from taking on Games in the courts to explain his views on the pre-owned games market.

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Ever the controversial figure Dyack is convinced that the pre-owned games market is forcing developers to concentrate more efforts into creating aspects to their games and taking their attention from creating truly high-quality single-player experiences.

Dyack explained:"What's really happening now is people are starting to say 'why is everyone pushing towards multiplayer?' Because the used game are hurting the single player experience so much, they're being forced in because of the economics, not because people who are doing single player games are saying,We really want to do multiplayer.' It's just a survival thing. That's why I think computing and all those things are really going to do well for the industry. It's going to take some time, but I think its an eventuality."

He continued: "I think theres a statistic I saw that most of the boutique retailers are making more money and more sales off of used games than they are off of new games. Those companies are posting record profits and the publishers and developers are laying people off. Thats a very, very, very big problem in our industry."

With the shrinking size of single-player components in major titles like Medal of Honor, and, most notably, the four-hour campaign in Homefront, Dyack may just have a point this time.

Thanks IndustryGamers.

By Ewan Aiton