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It's interesting that across the board, games released this year barely account for 9% of what people typically played.
A lot of people stick with ongoing/live service games as their main mode of play. FFXIV is the majority of my playtime, with Baldur's Gate 3 really being the only "this year" game I've played to a great extent.
Also plugging the Patient Gamers crowd that I find myself aligning more strongly with over time. Waiting to pick up games when they go on sale is not only easier on the wallet, but it is also a better experience overall with way too many developers these days releasing products on a "ship now, fix later" mindset.
Remember that a huge number of Steam accounts exclusively play Free to Play games and spend no money at all. 6 of the Top 10 Most Played on Steam right now are F2P games and only one is from this year.
I'm in that 9%. I played 40 different games. 21 of them were released in 2023. 83% of my total playtime was in games released this year. Most of that time was specifically in BG3.
I've got a 25 year backlog of games to play, no need to play any new ones for a while!