Quantity of games per year and per system with exclusives as well (according to Wikipedia)

[XtremeBG]

For the couple of comments above I'll just quote the same thing I said last. @HoloDust @LegitHyperbole

XtremeBG said:

Also I haven't said the numbers are accurate, but the source is the best I could find for all the data. And based on my personal experience with gaming, I do believe the ratio difference between the numbers, since the big games were a lot more before than they are now, as I said it's even logical, every big game is now developing for double sometimes even triple the time of before. Indie games are also way less than their most strong period from the 8th gen. Exclusives games data, also shows the same trend. Also I don't trust that now all of a sudden there are systems with 10 000 games, while just a few years before they were 2-3k at most. If the 10k games is true then for sure those previous systems should have more than what's on the chart. There is no way everyone would be happy with the previous gens about the games, and now most of people complain on the web everywhere there are no games the last few years, and the number of games is 3-4 times more for each system. Other thing in the PS store is that it counts demos trials and dlc-s for games, I am not sure if this is the case now with the PS5 section there, but the PS4 one, few years ago was like that. For example I had bought around 30 full games on the store digitally but on my library it said 200+ games because of all the demos, trials, and dlc's I've downloaded before that. So I really can't trust sony's store, the microsoft one was the same with the XB1. So it proves me nothing. Again, there can't be 4 years of that gen and PS5 have more games than whole full gen of 8 years and people saying all over the web that there are no games, and they are way more than a full generation. My stand on the topic is the same. this gen is a shame in terms of numbers of games to play in comparison to previous gens. So I trust more the ratio comparison that wikipedia gives than the store for PS5.

All the data from 1 legit source for every year and system. The data from the stores we can take does not cover xbox, does not cover all of nintendo, does not cover everything from PS after 7th gen, and there is no way to get PC data too. It will be way more innacurate than one source which have data for all the years and consoles on one place. It may be accurate for PS5 games for example, but it won't be as accurate for another platforms which are dead. I choose wikipedia as source, if you can give me better one, for every year and console, you are welcome, if not, this is my choice of source for the data.

If you do not agree with my point of view, you can make yourself charts, comparisons, and a new thread with data from the digital stores. Mine is this, unless I find source for everything touched here as years and consoles.

I will just add. I don't believe wikipedia numbers are exact either. But for me this is the most close to the truth, not by pure numbers, but by ratio differences between one another, and also, the other thing whatever is calculated there it is calculated the same way for all the years and all the consoles. So it's not bias, and it's not what I want to believe. It's what it's logical to me 1st, it's a source that I can get all the information 2nd, and it's that there is no another legit source 3rd. As you can read in the quoted text, how can I trust the stores when I had 30 bought games on PS4, and it showed me 200+ number, with all the dlc, trials, and demos I've downloaded (xbox store too) ? And even if I could somehow trust those stores, again it's only for some of the platforms, and you can tell me it's accurate since there is more digital games now, but what about systems like 3ds ? switch ? wii u ? xbox one, xbox series ? ps3 and 360 were full of digital games in their end of life years too, the digital games blew after 2011 and 2012, and games were made for these systems till 2017. how to get the numbers of all these systems'games from the stores ? If I can't get the numbers for all the systems why bother ? and @HoloDust it's not about getting the hassle to hunt down but is there a point in doing it after the things I wrote I experienced with the digital stores , and the systems that I wrote that we can't get info on ?

Last edited by XtremeBG - on 14 September 2024