In 2023 there were more games that earned 1000+ reviews within the first year.
What I got wrong. So last year when I pulled the 2022 number, the tool I used couldn’t distinguish between a Early Access games and 1.0s. I just got back a list of games that “launched” in some way in 2022. HOWEVER that 2022 dataset included games that had their EA in like 2015 and then had their 1.0 launch in 2022. That means they had been collecting reviews for several YEARS. This inflated the number of games to 416. In the past year my tool has improved greatly and I can specify to only show games that had their EA launch in 2022. What this did was make it look like 2023 was much worse in comparison to 2022. But the reverse was true. In 2023 there were more games that earned 1000+ reviews within the first year.