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When will your backlog actually be completed?

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ssj4yamgeta:
I hope to have mine finished in the next 4-6 years. Finally setting a hard limit on my 8th-gen wish list and the steadily dwindling number of new games I actually want to play will be a big help in getting caught up. The bulk of my backlog is in 8th-gen games, with the PS4 (my largest collection with over 200 games once I complete it) making up the largest percentage. On some consoles like the Switch, my backlog is nearly nonexistent due to buying so few games for the platform and generally playing them through as soon as I get them. I don't even consider myself as collecting for the PS5, for which I'll probably never have more than 40 games. There just aren't very many new games that actually appeal to me. As far as 7th-gen and earlier, my collections are basically finished so I'm more focused on digitizing them so those games will outlive their original hardware and be more convenient to play.

I've deliberately kept my collection small over the years because I didn't want a massive backlog or to waste time playing games I didn't really care about. I remember about 6-7 years ago looking at my TV setup with 6 consoles, realizing that it wasn't even half of the consoles I owned, and concluding that I needed to curb my "plastic addiction." I actually got out of the hobby for about 3 years where I hardly bought anything, but eventually recovered from burnout because there was still stuff I wanted to play that I didn't own.

randomstranger:
For games that I already own based on HowLongToBeat Main+Extras median time, my backlog is a little over 3841 hours. At my peak of the hobby, I've played about 500 hours a year. Nowdays, it's around 100. If I don't buy anything new I still have enough games to play for the rest of my life.

watty:
My backlog grows faster than I can play. It's like a Hydra. Finish one, three more appear. If I stopped buying games today, maybe 3-4 years?

marvelvscapcom2:
My backlog is currently 1,010 games.  Id say short games are 5 hours and long ones are 40 hours. Id give that a 20 hour liberal average because I tend to savor games and play slow and I have a ton of story driven rpg games in that backlog. So that is

20,200 hours

Or roughly 846.2 entire days or 2.3 entire years without break or sleep.


Now in all seriously I doubt ill ever be able to allocate over 6 hours per day max to games and that is heavy side.  Id say closer to 3.5 average.  So that is about 1,277 hours per year. I'll give it 2000 to be generous and make the math easier.


Thatd be 10 or so whole years to finish the backlog with no breaks, no other media, and no missing days. 


Then I add games all the time.


So id say the general answer to the question is

NEVER lol.

turf:
Never…
I have a lot of games. I keep buying games.
I play the same games over and over.
I never get to the new games.

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