It's nice to see this getting more attention. I recently bought a Nintendo Switch. It's the first new console I bought since the Playstation 2. I only bought i

It's nice to see this getting more attention. I recently bought a Nintendo Switch. It's the first new console I bought since the Playstation 2. I only bought it after seeing a friend's indie games library, and seeing that the Switch actually has a pretty decent library of reasonably sized games. This is after a year or two of having written this console off, too, based more or less entirely on people I know talking about Breath of the Wild's epic size. (The first games I bought for it were Untitled Goose Game and Curse of the Obra Dinn. I was not disappointed.) It's not to say that there's anything inherently wrong with games being big. But it's always seemed to me that most big games end up being big because the game designers didn't (or weren't allowed to) stop when they were done. And I'm sort of "once bitten, twice shy" about it. Since games tend to front load all their best ideas, you've got to invest many hours into a game before you find out if it's going to sag out. Games reviewers certainly won't tell you, except in cases where it's really bad. I assume because the only people who could stand to review AAA games for a living nowadays are people who don't mind this sort of thing.