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What game genre has become the most oversaturated lately?

First person shooter 284 56.02%
 
Open world 141 27.81%
 
Simulation (of any kind) 10 1.97%
 
JRPG 22 4.34%
 
Third person shooter 12 2.37%
 
Side-scrolling shooter 4 0.79%
 
Metroidvania 3 0.59%
 
Platformer 17 3.35%
 
Kart racer 2 0.39%
 
Fighting game 12 2.37%
 
Total:507
Darashiva on 22 July 2017

A few years ago it would have probably been FPS, but I think it's starting to turn more towards open world games these days. I probably wouldn't otherwise really mind, but too many of them are starting to feel like the same game over and over (I mostly blame Ubisoft).



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Ljink96 on 22 July 2017

FPS, easy.



IamAwsome on 22 July 2017
jason1637 said:
Simulators. We get lots of sport games every year.

There aren't nearly as many sports sims this gen as there were last gen. Plenty of sports franchises were killed off in the last decade. 



pokoko on 22 July 2017
Aeolus451 said:
pokoko said:

Alright, I'll bite.

No, you're wrong.

haha. Okay. I'll go along. How so? What genre do you is most oversaturated?

Because you're wrong.

Fighting games.



UltimateGamer1982 on 22 July 2017

FPS and it's not even a question.



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KLAMarine on 22 July 2017

First person life sims. We're all playing one right now.



Aeolus451 on 22 July 2017
pokoko said:
Aeolus451 said:

haha. Okay. I'll go along. How so? What genre do you is most oversaturated?

Because you're wrong.

Fighting games.

In your opinion. There's not really alot of fighting games floating around so I don't how it could oversaturated unless you've set a really low bar for it. Why do yout think fighting games are oversaturated?



AngryLittleAlchemist on 22 July 2017

1) Open world games(most of which shouldn't be open world)
2) Pretentious Indies
3) FPS



UltimateGamer1982 on 22 July 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
Indies. Far too many of them!

That's not a genre. Indies encompass many genres. 



pokoko on 22 July 2017
Aeolus451 said:
pokoko said:

Because you're wrong.

Fighting games.

In your opinion. There's not really alot of fighting games floating around so I don't how it could oversaturated unless you've set a really low bar for it. Why do yout think fighting games are oversaturated?

Well ... the challenge was to have a discussion without facts or supporting information.  If we're abandoning that ...

"FPS" is made up by a lot of very different games.  I don't see much sense in grouping Prey with Battlefield or Overwatch with Metro.

As far as market terms go, I think of "oversaturated" as meaning the point at which supply exceeds demand to the detriment of the market itself.  The market for military shooters seems healthy when compared to fighting games, which is struggling.