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Re: Soapbox: Why Do We Want More Games When We've Already Got Too Many?

Unown23

Love the article. I’m over 1000 games. It’s bad. I agree with most of the commenters here. Part of the problems I see is something that’s new and shiny and gets good reviews how are you going to pass that up as gamer? Similarly, when something is good and goes on sale (eshop, store deals, etc) that maybe we were on the fence about, we can’t pass that up either. I don’t think the switch being portable helps me in this situation. I have a plethora of Nintendo’s other portables with games unplayed that sit around just as well.

Ultimately, I blame myself for wanting wanting and wanting. I like my backlog. I’m proud of it. I would also be happy if video games ceased production for a number of years.

I even missed out on a lot of “servers are no longer up” games even though I had them at the time (see ds/Wii). Ahhh!!

Pokémon really started my entire backlog. I spent hundreds of hours on red/gold/stadium trying to collect them all and get every one to level 50-100. So, some games by design are urging you to complete it all or it’s simply left “unbeat” even if beat.