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pray4mojo on 21 January 2017
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Dyllyo said:
pray4mojo said:
Fewer games is good for me because I only have limited time and attention to play them. Everyone these days has so many games that they end up not playing half of them. I believe it's called a "backlog". What's interesting is, no one is realizing that sometimes too much of a good thing is not, in fact, a good thing.

For YOU. Not gamers. Believe it or not, tons of gamers are either unemployed or too  young to even HAVE jobs. And, for some, it IS their jobs.

Even when I was 21 and did nothing but drink and play games, I'd still end up having a stack of sealed copies sitting in my closet. That was back in the early 00's when everything was on physical media and the only way to play games was on PC or console. Now, with free games every month via XBL/PS4 and soon to be Switch, ftp mobile games, ftp console games, ftp PC games and indie games on Steam sale.... there's just way too fucking many things out there and if I tried to play everything I wanted (I like every genre of game)... I'd have to sit on my ass playing them 24/7. 

For me, and this goes beyond games, I feel like too much is not good. Too much food, alcohol, TV, internet, sex, games... anything that is consumed too much loses it's luster and shine. Eventually, you're going to get burnt out and the enjoyment is going to die out totally. Christmas would not be fun every day of the year. It's just human biology and nature. 

So, for me? Owning just a Nintendo console and nothing else actually increases my enjoyment of gaming. When you have to wait long stretches without a major release, not only to you completely 100% the games you buy, you also appreciate new ones that much more.