DocSeuss just linked this to me from
Reddit, percentage of genres since 1975:
Actually, there aren't that many strictly FPSs year in year out, even compared to 3rd person shooters. Sure, some of the franchises bring top dollar, but so do franchises in other genres. Sports, Nintendo games, open world games, and others sell quite a bit. First Person has branched out.
There are a lot more
first person whatever games, and they do sell quite a bit too. Survival and horror are the biggest earners right now aside from FPS while there are still a healthy amount of puzzlers, adventures, platformers, and brawlers.
The reason why FPS haven't died off in popularity probably is because of the experimentation available, while other genres are a bit more hard set and there isn't as much left to innovate.
For some reason i thought this thread is about vibrant colours in FPS games.
I mean, we have that too.
If we're not just talking the most popular but just entries, here are the First Person games of just 2014 that I've found notable and some of which I consider GOTY contenders personally:
Jazzpunk - funniest game I've ever played.
Lovely Planet - skill-based speedrun platformer shooter with exquisitely tight design
Wolfenstein The New Order - best shooter of the year
imo
Sir, You Are Being Hunted - hilarious but tough tweedpunk survival game
NaissanceE - insane scale and brutalist level design
Mind: Path to Thalamus - mindblowing surreal imagery
Ether One - about the frailty of memories in a sleepy seaside village
Eidolon - wandering around a post-human Washington landscape
Betrayer - atmospheric New World 17th century shooter
Not many strictly FPSs there. And if you're just on consoles, it's an even shorter supply.
Oversaturation, nah.