Look at this graph I made.
According to info from Giantbomb, this is the number of retail WW2 games by year since the 21st century began.
As you can see, for a while, we had too many of these games. From 2003 to 2011, we had at least 10 WW2 games a year every year except for 2004, which had eight such games. However, things started going down for the genre after 2009, and after 2011, we haven't had even 6 games a year any year. True, some new games might be announced for 2014 that push it over 5. But considering how there are only three so far announced, I doubt it.
Meanwhile, we have to remember that WW2 was probably the best historical event ever from a video game point of view. You had loads of tech. You had huge land, sea, and air battles. You had loads of sides and factions. You had Nazis, the perfect baddies for your shooter or other genre of choice. Think about it! Why bother making up sci-fi baddies when they're going to have to rip off the Nazis anyway?
The Virtual Nazis have been soaking up too few bullets since 2009. It's time for them to come back... so we can headshot them again.
Note: I am not advocating for the deaths of real-life Neo-Nazis. Just to be clear.
