Are AAA Games Too Long?

[KillerGremlin]

I think GTA could be the ultimate win-win since it has a story mode for the dedicated gamers and a sandbox mode for the people who want to pick it up and just screw around.

Does anyone think that this is just a pitfall of the current gaming market? I really think the stream of games across numerous consoles coupled with the consumerist mindset of "want want want buy buy buy" has created a generation of consumers who own WAY more shit than they can actually consume. It creates huge profit revenues which in turn has lead to a market that continues to turn out games at a pace that is too rapid for any gamer, casual or hardcore, to keep up with. You can't even say it is a quality over quantity issue, because so much stuff gets turned out that good games slip through the cracks.

It's almost like a gaming bubble...