2024-01-05 07:58:53
According to statistics from Steam analysis website SteamDB, a total of 14,535 new games were released on Steam in 2023, the most ever. Compared to 2022, there are approximately 2,000 more games.
In the past few years, games released on Steam have experienced explosive growth. In 2019, Steam released 8,134 games in a year, an increase of more than 6,000 in less than 5 years.
And this trend shows no signs of slowing down. In the first four days of 2024, 80 more games were launched. Foreign media VGC said that if this rate is maintained, 29,000 games will be launched on Steam this year.
VGC believes that the reason for so much improvement is mainly due to the increased autonomy of game development tools and the loose management of Valve. However, the latter has caused some problems. Some players feel that the navigation of the platform has become confusing, and high-quality works will be ignored. There is an influx of inferior games that are ignored.
According to data from marketing company Circana, the Switch’s eShop ranks second in terms of the number of games on the shelves in the United States, with 2,360 games on the shelves in 2023. Although it is far behind Steam, the eShop has also received similar complaints. Many players have called on Nintendo to more strictly review the large number of low-quality games that are put on the shelves every week to maintain the development of the platform.
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