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The lack of deep consoles games by 2005 (or more accurately, the huge number of shovelware) was making everything bad, the entire problem came from what the Playstation 1 and 2 had caused, heavy saturation just like the Atari.

Do you remember the NES? I do. Roughly nine out of every ten games released on the NES ranged from 'boring' to 'absolute horse shit'. It happens every time a single console controls the market against weak or nonexistent competition. Every developer out there knows that a flooded market creates opportunities for basically any kind of game, so we have all sorts of crazy, ugly, horrible games that have to sell as few as a thousand copies to turn a profit.

The NES and the original PlayStation, minus the clear difference in technology, were basically the same console with the same premise: tons and tons of games, some of which are good, a few of which are great, and the rest of which weren't worth the black plastic they were made of.

And, though it made finding a good game difficult, there are lots of bad games that sell very large numbers of copies. The problems facing the game industry were less the flood of titles (as the really great ones were continuing to break records) but rather the aging practices of the companies making, selling, licensing and distributing these titles.