I get the OP's point, premium experiences or at least ones that feel more "prestigious" or are usually the most flesh-out ones seem to have gone down in numbers over the years due to the various factors the industry is going through, of course though you can't that the additional stream of distribution via digital has changed how we can find games easily through these means. Multiple of them are prolly unaccounted for, especially on PC.

Easier means of publishing one's title has become so easier and the means to which you can make a game have also, but the abundance of them going the digital market alone will make most of them go through while mostly unnoticed. The market is just imo unviable for such a quantity of games. It goes through most like white noise.

Personally, the exclusive per system chart is the most interesting ones cuz it's indeed surprising how "few" exclusives the PS4 actually had throughout it's life despite it's leading position by quite a margin.

Then you've got the Switch with it's whooping 170+ exclusives which is just unbelievable almost but considering Nintendo output this gen alone ... No wonder this could be easily considered has some kind of golden era. Also, it kinda goes against the grain of the ol' rethoric of exclusives "not selling" consoles anymore.

It's an impossible task then. Someone would have to go in to the stores and cross reference everything to get accurate numbers. Wiki isn't accurate past 8th gen and the stores aren't accurate. The number is somewhere in between. 50 games are added to Steam a day, near 10, 000 a year. It's a different beast the past ten years. The numbers are astronomical compared to anytime in history. Count mobile games and how they are getting ported and it's an even bigger task, no-one could track that. 

Maybe...and then there are quite a lot of digital only games that are stellar. And then there's everything else in between.

Just like with physical releases...but the scale is much bigger - Steam is at 100K+ games, nothing compares to that, except mobile game stores, measuring in hundreds of thousands....as I said, white fucking noise.

There are fantastic games on every digital store, just because they don't have physical releases doesn't mean they are not as good as "physical" games (and there is a plethora of horrendous physical releases).

I'm more focussing on the number of good games instead of the number of total games per system:
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/199693/metascores-per-year-2000-2023/7/

2024 so far (September 14th)

Nice.

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

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 ?

This is by far a better reflection of the industry. Very nice. 

My charts were about the quantity of games, not better reflection of the industry. This wasn't my target in the first place. It's not my fault there is no better source for the quantity through out the years or by platform.

Not an attack on you, just the process as a whole, indeed it's not your fault that the task is impossible or would take months of work to parse out and one hell of a headache and even then PS3, 360 and Wii numbers will never be accurate.