Phil Harrison, (who is now at Atari/Infogrames remember!), has apparently dug the grave of single-player, big budget games for his new company.

In a recent interview regarding the forthcoming Alone in the Dark, Harrison told Gamasutra:

"I think Atari is part of an industry in some transition from pure packaged media to an online business model and social communication and community model. If we are part of that transition, perhaps we are going to take a slightly aggressive, leading-edge role in that transition.

"I don't see that we're going to be making huge-budget, single-player games in the future. Now, that doesn't mean that we won't have ambition to do really incredible games that have high quality, high execution, and high innovation, but they won't be one-player, narrative-driven, start-middle-end games."

Then again, Pong was multi-player really.

^{Source: Gamasutra with thanks to MCV.}