If anything the last year has been great motivation to only buy the truly important games and start fine-honing your Playstation collection. It has been an awakening. I used to want to buy everything too. But with every passing week that feeling becomes more the opposite. I look at my collection now and I become kind of disgusted. I'm now considering selling off several PS4 games in order to have a finer collection.
The market is flooded with PS4 games and the shovelware rush on the Switch is a full go. Thankfully we are still getting really cool limted releases like Hyper Light Drifter, The Sexy Brutale, Shadow Warrior, and Dear Esther. Wish I wouldn't have bought so much crap when there's seemingly an endless amount of great games to buy. I still haven't picked up things like Okami HD, Axiom Verge PS4, and Azure Striker Gunvolt Switch edition.
The landscape has changed. The market is saturated. Gamestop can hardly even sell many games anymore. You don't even get the full game when you buy the (new or used) box off the shelf. Publishers release so much crap and western gaming has gone completely downhill outside of a few development studios. However, it's a great time to be a consumer. We have so much to choose from.
So many publishers have forgotten their niche as well as their core competencies. Square Enix can't even sell out of their collector's editions anymore. Greed has taken over. While western companies have been floundering, most of the things I bought in 2017 were Japanese. Zelda, Nioh, Persona 5 = good, complete games. Now I am fully enamored with Monster Hunter World. Companies in the west have simply been failing at
doing a good job. It's not a free cash grab anymore. They actually have to compete to get our money now. Start doing a better job offering things consumers actually want to buy.
2017 was the year of lootboxes, microtransactions, and forgettable collector's editions.
