Has the game industry reached a point of sautration?

[Leynos]

I never want to see Concord characters again.

I have liked this year a lot for new releases. Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. Cosmic Fantasy Collection. FF7 Rebirth. Granblue Relink. Stellar Blade. Persona 3 Reload. Robocop. Macross Shooting Insight. Radirgy 2. Eiryuden Chronicles. Warhammer 40K Boltgun. Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2. Slave Zero X. Paper Mario TTYD remake. SMTV-Vengence. Gundam Breaker 4. Later this year DQIII Remake. Physical of Capcom Fighting Arcade collection. Ys X. Metaphor looks amazing and unique.

Sure none of these are 10 million sellers.  Maybe SM2 will be? But they are mostly small to mid-budget games (I said most as SM2/FF7R are obviously not small-budget) and have sold well. Relink sold over a million launch month. Stellar Blade as well. There are a lot of good smaller to mid-budget games that did well. I can't speak on Helldivers 2 and Wokong and such. Did not play them. I think a lot of success in 2024 and my fave year of games since 2022. 2023 was mostly a slog for me. I think where the saturation is are mostly gaas titles. Also, games that are the same AAA dredge we see year after year. Some of those maybe people are sick of. Concord has been discussed to death. I think Ubisoft fatigue is setting in for many. Did for me many years ago. Who would have thought in terms of sales that Grandblue Fantasy Relink would be a big success and a AAA online shooter would be the biggest disaster in years? Sony's best new IP this year was a Korean single-player action game. I think mid-budget tastes are catching a wider net and more of the same AAA shit for some fatigue has set in. So an Xdefiant or Outlaws or COncord is just a big meh. Even among gaas games people say HD2 is different. I have to take their word for it. People seem to want something different in general. I know I do.

Last edited by Leynos - on 12 September 2024