meanwhile rockstar and bethesda be like

UFO 50 was originally announced in 2017 and it released just a while ago. You should play that game, it owns.

Oh no, looks like you'll have nothing to play, because the only games that are ever available to play are ones released in the past 5 years. There definitely is not a cumulative total of games that is more than you could ever imagine playing in 5 whole lifetimes, no sir. You're literally going to have to stare at a wall for 12 months straight while you wait for Death Stranding 2. Consider it practice/mental toning for the actual game.

FF7 Rebirth PC when?

I think a lot of it isn't due to developers as much as it is bonehead executive speculation plays. There also wasn't chasing the live service dragon.

How many Yakuzas have we had? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza_(franchise)

Someones doing something right over there.

And it's not even chief evil for gigacorp games, if anything, corpos tend to have better, though still sucking development times, but new norm is sitting on popular franchises doing nothing for years and decades. Indies and small companies got real fucking problems with dev hells. I follow games that are in development for a literal decade, they aren't fake since some progress is done, but release is nowhere close. Or the ones which are in development for years and when they release it's still early access with years more, and this can't be even explained by lack of manpower, those games aren't substantially different in scope of those from 20 years ago.