Anyone else tired of the "indie boom"?

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JOKA_ said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

I do agree, the amount of shit indie games are getting ridicules and early access + kickstarter shit isn't helping either.. I just hope that there is some sort of quality control in the future or else all platforms will be filled with mostly average to shitty games

Most indie games can be summed up as 8 bit platformer or 2d puzzle games

I hear this phrase a lot, and I don't understand why it bothers people that shitty games exist.  Whats the difference between a shitty game existing or not being made?  Is the percentage of non-shitty games that important?  Is it a console war thing to claim that some device/console/etc has a low percentage of shitty games?

Just let them exist, and (as I have said before) don't buy them.  

(This isn't so much directed at you, more at the group of people as a whole with this ideaology)

Thing is bad/mediocre/shovelware games have existed since the dawn of gaming. In fact, they've outnumbered the good games on every system since the dawn of gaming. The fact that some of these bad games are small indies now makes little difference. In fact, it actually clears up retail space for bigger 'better" titles because now most of the small ones are digital only.

3,800 titles were released worldwide for PS2, 1,440 titles were released on the Super Famicom in Japan. There are certainly not over a thousand games worth playing between the two of them. Maybe six hundred.