If the new games were any good, people would play new games.
The real problems are that games aren’t finished when they come out. Even small games that aren’t broken generally get patches to make them somewhat better in the first year. And games tend to go on sale after around that long. So I just wait and pay less for a better game.
The combination of getting burned by Anthem straight up crashing on my hardware until after my friends were already done with it making it a complete waste of money and the horror of getting my witcher-superfan friend cyberpunk 2077 on launch as a gift and it being complete garbage made me never want to buy a newly released game again.
The real problems are that games aren’t finished when they come out. Even small games that aren’t broken generally get patches to make them somewhat better in the first year. And games tend to go on sale after around that long. So I just wait and pay less for a better game.
The combination of getting burned by Anthem straight up crashing on my hardware until after my friends were already done with it making it a complete waste of money and the horror of getting my witcher-superfan friend cyberpunk 2077 on launch as a gift and it being complete garbage made me never want to buy a newly released game again.