Everyone is saying that thre isn't enough games. Where are the games. The problem I'm having is there is not enough time and toonmany games. I'm still on 8th gen and still have games going into my backlog, having trouble figuring out what to play and what level of quality deserves my time which there is not enough of. I can't imagine how I'm going to catch up when I go 9th gen this Holiday now that I'm looking at the games I wanna line up, it'll take me years with games like Baldurs gate 3 taking hundreds of hours. I've only had 500 hours this year to game. 

Companies are competing for time. For all the big hitters like Wukong how much of the games industry are loosing, do you think, cause there are too many games and only a finite numbers of hours for gamers. It's gotta be a lot and that's why we see games like braid releasing and failing hard. Indies that don't sell enough to keep the company alive. AAA releases destroying studios over a flop. Mass layoffs (I know the bubble covid created also) yet gamers whining "where are the games, wah wah wah".

I don't think there's a such thing as too many games. It's a blessing, not a problem.

I definitely have no problem checking out what new selection there are each week on the Switch EShop, these can sometimes amount to up to 50 new releases. It's kind of a form of entertainment to me. Now, the bigger list by far are the discount sales, these are regularly around 1000+. And that's why I put that Wish List to very good use so I can focus on the games I've already looked at while only glancing at the rest.

Where my problem lies is primarily in the availability of catalogue games on the most recent hardware. For example, it's ridiculous that Switch has Chrono Cross, but not Chrono Trigger. WTF Square? :)
Also, Monolithsoft has been with Nintendo for nearly 20 years, but still no Xenogears on a Nintendo platform. Square put FF7-X up, and we thought we'd never see those. But not the far more obvious games like Chrono Trigger and Xenogears? Both of which had Tetsuya Takahashi as one of the main developers (he was the Creative Director of Xenogears), and he now serves as one of Nintendo's top executives/creative directors.

So, it's not that there isn't enough games, but more like getting older games for sale on current hardware in their original form, remake, or remaster.

There are more games around than anyone can play in a lifetime. Choice is good, so not to many games for us gamers. One could argue though that there are to many for many gamedevelopers, to make a decent living. Plenty of good games will simply not get noticed.

That is kind of like saying there are too many television shows, too many books(8,000 years worth or more, unless your an ancient alien theorist...then 100,000 years worth) too many movies, etc.

Of course. But I do not want to read most of those books pre-1950 or movies pre-1970s. I am sure the same goes for gamers. Most do not want to play many of the Steam games that come out or eshop games, etc. They want the newest and best. Kind of like when a new iPhone comes out, there are plenty of options in the world, but they'll be damned if they are not standing in line for it.

I dont believe that scenario is possible.

US continues to fall behind China and other countries with technology, jobs market crashes in America again, a mini depression happens and the big whigs in Washington make another "New Deal", they give special grants to millions to learn technology and to build jobs in this sector. Millions of people learn how to code games to make extra money on the side. One million games a month are made.

In this scenario, maybe that would be a scenario?

Try and play every game that looks good to you with the goal of beating games. The scenario is possible and it doesn't help that games are so much longer than other media. There's games from 20 years ago I missed that I would one day like to try and play but man is the market getting flooded. Switch has thousands of indies, Steam has thousands per year. It's almost like we need the old Nintendo gold seal of quality in some form and whatever that looks like on the other platforms too. 

Idk bit it feels like it happened already. 

Im just very picky with games tbh. Like, my backlog never grows bigger than 10 games, and it very rarely ever reaches that size. Even games i might be interested in at first very quickly lose my attention. 

On the other hand, games I really like I replay a lot. Ive cleared Unicorn Overlord 5 times and that game released in March this year. 

Games are like dakka, never enough!