Quoted from Crash:

I also think that saturation in the video game market is contributing to this trend. Greed especially, take a look at EA Games and Activision and see if you can't find at least 20 different games released by them on a game store shelf. Plus the fact that everything is online now; you're always updating the game software, playing with hackers that ruin the online experience, and in turn re-signing terms of service agreements with crap in them saying it's illegal to file a lawsuit against the licensor because you want to run homebrew software that you wrote on your gaming console (Sony). New games are shallow, watered down messes that still costs $60 a pop right off the shelf that are most likely poor unoptimized conversions of a game designed around another system, such as the PC. And not to mention Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo gets a majority of the royalties generated from game sales, leaving little room for the actual development companies to innovate and leaving little incentive to actually make something good. I'm not saying all game franchises are this way, but things are definitely going downhill fast in the console gaming market. Millions of players are turning to smartphones and tablets for cheap games. Nintendo is nearly bankrupt. The 3DS and Vita handheld units aren't selling. And did I mention the community is furious with Sony and Microsoft dropping support for used games?