In a new report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier , which centers around one of the modern video game industry's issues: there are simply too many games. Schreier pointed out a staggering statistic to consider about how the industry has changed in the last few years, showing that according to SteamDB , the amount of games released on Steam in 2020 totalled around 9,656. In 2024, that number went up 93%, to 18,626.

In today's attention economy, where video game developers aren't just competing with other developers to get players buying and playing their games but with streaming services, social media apps, and so on, it's hard enough for studios to sell copies in the first place. Add to that the fact that there are more games launching all the time, every day, with both big triple-A tit

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