I noticed this recently when I decided to look for new DS games. I've been wanting to expand that library for awhile now (I only have half a dozen games for it), but when I started browsing through all the games I noticed something. Nothing is really appealing to me. Not a single damn game jumped out and said "buy me!". Why? Because many of them are either ports or remakes of older games. Even when I look at the few games I do have, 4 of them are ports or remakes. Hell, when I went looking for recommendations, all the games I found being listed were...ports and remakes. I don't want to keep buying the same games over and over again, I want to play new ones.

It's to the point where I don't play games much either. I started playing a couple games again cause I'm on vacation from work and don't really have anything better to do. Games I've played many times before because I can't find anything new that appeals to me at all.

I'm sure it applies to more than just the DS, that's just the experience I've been having with it lately. I'm quite disappointed as I rarely buy games anymore but I was hoping to find more than what I did. I'm not impressed with the way the industry's been going lately. I am looking forward to upcoming games, don't get me wrong, but the problem is that most of the games I'll be buying in the fairly near future are sequels. I'll enjoy them well enough I'm sure but I wouldn't mind seeing more innovation and entirely new games.

~DragonHeart~