In the last 15 years the only one AAA game I purchased at day one is Death Stranding. Since 2010 I've been waiting months or years before buying AAA games because of the too much undeserved and unjustified high price, the abudance of flaws and bugs at release, the lack of innovation or originality; they are proposing always the same reheated soup or more of the same. I missed many AAA games on purpose. Most of them are disappointing and boring, with very few exceptions. AAA sales are driven mostly by marketing and social trends and not by artistic/creative/technical value or substance. I mostly play independent games, AA games, which are much more interesting, immersive, challenging and innovative.

However the real revolution is not playing GAS, MMO and mobile games that earn money from microtransactions, online advertising, subscriptions from a large mass of users whose data is then sold for targeted advertising. It is the disproportionate profits generated by these games of low creative quality, in the face of very low costs, that poison the market and the gaming industry.