I have too many video games and I’m not playing any of them – Reader’s Feature

I have then gone on something of a mission, offloading all the Xbox One and original Xbox games on my Xbox Series X onto the hard drive (this freed up space on the internal hard drive for X/S games), and downloading as many Xbox One and original Xbox Game Pass games, and previous Xbox Gold games, that I can. As of last week, I am currently up to 146 games, with 30 in the queue.

It’s now become more of an obsession of trying to see just how much of Game Pass I can download.

I know I will never play most of these. I am even clicking through stuff I know I don’t care about.

This has made me reflect.

I have a 200GB SD in my Switch. And I am always tempted by cheap eShop offers, so I have a big collection of digital stuff.

So I took stock of what I have.

I have never got rid of old consoles or games, way back to the original Game Boy (every main console, every generation). I have around 1,000 physical games and all the original consoles to play them on.

I also do the dark art of emulation, but only for old games I can’t get (total separate thing, but isn’t second hand/eBay just as against the EULA/rules as copying it? Manufacturer still doesn’t get a cut).

Across everything I have, I have in the region of 50,000 games.

This is my biggest problem, too many games. It causes me to flit around too much deciding what to play, as everything is too easily to hand.

I usually revert to a quick game on Burnout (pre-Paradise, one-off races) or some version of Street Fighter. The only new games I generally find myself playing through are the main Nintendo games.

Compared to years ago, when you had to go the effort of standing up and replacing a cart/disc it has probably become too easy to build a massive library of games that you can quickly flick between.

For me, it makes a gaming session more if a case of ‘Oh, what do I play?’

I can only imagine what my collection would look like if I was into PC gaming/Steam.

By reader Si

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