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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 55% off right now (Steam)
Street Fighter 6 44% off right now (Fanatical)
Starfield 33% off right now (40%, microsoft store, Feb 8 2024)
Fairing a little bit better than the above:
Resident Evil 4 Remake 25% off right now (Steam)
Persona 3 Reload 15% off right now GameBillet
Baldur's Gate 3 10% off historically (10%, gog, Dec 21 2023)
These are just the ones I'm familiar with off the top of my head. Of them, only Baldur's Gate 3's discount levels are what I would call "healthy". 10% for Christmas and no discount since means it's doing well.
None of those games are that recent.
Discounts over time are a perfectly standard part of their pricing strategy. It's not even mildly unhealthy. Resellers don't count at all, because that's always their strategy.
The unusual part of suicide squad and skull and bones is that they're brand new games. The discounts are not huge because there's a problem with the market. They're huge because they're dogshit excuses for products and nobody is stupid enough to buy them.
every game on that list was released after Jan 1, 2023. If that is not "recent" then I have no idea what is.
3 months is recent.
A game having a significant sale 6 months or a year later is perfectly normal behavior. It tells you absolutely nothing about the industry. It's worked that way for decades. It's not the tiniest bit unusual.