Video games need be shorter or the industry is doomed

As research shows people are playing less new video games than ever, a reader argues they need to become shorter to compete with live service titles.

There’s lots of things to worry about in the games industry but as an ordinary gamer it’s all stuff that I feel I have no influence over. I’d like to look at things from a different angle though, rather than telling off evil corporations for being evil.

It seems to me there’s two big problems at the moment, that are kind of going under the radar. One is that nobody is playing new games. Nobody’s buying them, or even playing them for free on Game Pass, and the majority are still playing the same games they were playing five or more years ago – stuff like Fortnite and FIFA/EA Sports FC.

The other problem is that nobody has time to play other