Let's be honest here, who on this site has actually cleared his backlog at any point in time?

Words cannot describe my admiration for you at this point in time.

5 game backlog? Try 40 Switch games, 60 ps4 games. A lot chipping to do.

Ouch lol.

It doesn't start to get real bad until you have hundreds of games you purchased but haven't even played.

I was that way previously. I had way more than i could play in a month or 2, until i took a step back. Most games just get cheaper, the longer u wait to buy them. I finally got it through my head on how much money i can save, if i quit buying too many more games, than what i can play. No matter how much i think i need to play them right now. I pretty much just buy 1 or 2 new games when they're released. The rest i wait until Black Friday for. I can spend $100-$200, and have like 9-10 games at a minimum, to last me most of the winter.

Do the games on the SNES mini count as a backlog if you haven't played them yet?

I have the opposite problem. Well on Switch at least. There's nothing on the horizon besides maybe Metroid Prime 4 that interests me. I think my Switch might start collecting some dust unless a new Star Fox, or Mario Golf comes out or some new IP that looks good. Nintendo has kinda shot their wad with me in the first year and a half. I don't feel like buying more new copies of Wii U ports I've already paid, or buy more third party ports for ages old games like Doom. There's not really anything left since I prefer to play multi-platform games on the PS4. I might go back and get like Octopath Traveller. Maybe Smash if I can get it for less than $30 since I'll casually play that at best. I've already dabbled out into games that are only vaguely interesting with Fire Emblem Warriors, but that already feels like a mistake despite getting it for $15 on a Boxing Day sale.

I hope things improve. I'm pretty sure at this point if Sony announced a PS4 portable, I'd drop the Switch for it in a heartbeat.

I have about 100 unstarted and another 100 unfinished X1 games in my backlog. 5 games would be a dream come true.

This is why I have a policy of never buying a game until I know I am going to play it right away... Usually, I give myself some wiggle room to try and catch a deal. Unless they're Nintendo first party games, the price tends to drop between release and the time I purchase. The last game I bought brand new was Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The last Steam game I bought brand new may have been about 2012.