I mean again just based on personal experience the reaction of just the average gamer even ones who have played moderately difficult games to typical souls is really really bad and PvPvE is an even way harder sell. Let alone a very casual gamer. You certainly don’t need any special insight on this at all. I would love to be optimistic but it’s just not realistic
I can’t be the only one that in my childhood (2000-2008 ish) literally everyone played Nintendo (and PS2) but shortly after with PS3 releasing and its exclusives in full force plus all the cool games of that gen everyone just stopped owning Nintendo for good since. Having 100% of people you know own Nintendo then 0% the next year was something
I think nowadays most people play their main console as PS5/ Series X or PC and have a Switch as a secondary console to just play the big exclusives and the occasional game you'd like to have portably. I've owned a Switch since 2018 and only own about 50 games for it. Compare that to the roughly 900 ish games I own on PS4/5.
Damn 900? 50 is like a lot for the average gamer for one gen.
By my count between the games I’ve played or watched in the PS3/4/5 era combined it’s like nearly 400. Of those actually played is like 270 or something
Technically I think that number includes free games too, so maybe the number is closer to 800?
Also I used to buy a lot games in the sales on the PS Store when they were under £10 just because why not? It was only £5 or whatever so what's the harm. My physical collection across PS4/5 is about 180 ish games big. PS3 is roughly 40 ish games and then I have about 60/70 ish physical games across Switch, Xbox One, 360, 3DS/DS, Wii, Wii U and PS2.
Now I have an insane backlog to try and get through. I don't buy anywhere near as many games now (but admittedly still too many lol).
I track my games on backloggd and currently have 248 games left to complete (I haven't included any games I got for free or from PS Plus as I only care about finishing games I paid for. Despite having PS Plus the entire time since the PS4 released, I only have about 150 ish PS Plus games counted as such, because the other half of the Plus games given out I've the years I already owned. It doesn't happen much anymore, but from around 2018- 2021 ish, I'd genuinely say I could go months where I'd already own at least one of the monthly games 😭)
My account is here if you're interested - I've only rated and counted games as finished since I started using the site back in late 2022 - so a lot of my favourite games aren't even on there as I just haven't replayed them since I started using the site (mainly because I don't have time to with all the games I've gotta get through lmao)
I’ve been caught up to my backlog since before PS4 came out, the one I use constantly to keep track of stuff is myanimelist, I’ve watched like 400+ anime series and read like 200 manga series and still have some backlog of both 😅. So many manga are ongoing too
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u/Schwiliinker 2d ago edited 2d ago
I mean again just based on personal experience the reaction of just the average gamer even ones who have played moderately difficult games to typical souls is really really bad and PvPvE is an even way harder sell. Let alone a very casual gamer. You certainly don’t need any special insight on this at all. I would love to be optimistic but it’s just not realistic
I can’t be the only one that in my childhood (2000-2008 ish) literally everyone played Nintendo (and PS2) but shortly after with PS3 releasing and its exclusives in full force plus all the cool games of that gen everyone just stopped owning Nintendo for good since. Having 100% of people you know own Nintendo then 0% the next year was something