7 Reasons Why People Are Giving Up On Gaming

2. You Can Look Forward To... More Sequels

Y'know what's cooler than a second Last of Us remake in nine years?

Whatever Naughty Dog are doing next. Whatever Rockstar are doing next, that ISN'T more GTA or another Red Dead.

As has become the case across most high-budget film and TV too, the "safe bet" is king, yet it's a fundamental maxim to our very being as humans, that we can't sustain on repetition. Eat too much of the same thing, you lose your appetite for it. Play, watch or listen to too much of the same game, movie or band, and it loses its allure. You need a break; you need something else. Maybe you come back to the beloved thing later and re-appreciate it all over again, but intermittence is key.

Hearing Todd Howard formulaically lay out that after 2023's Starfield, "Elder Scrolls 6 is in pre-production and, you know, we’re going to be doing Fallout 5 after that", was just about the most "foregone conclusion" approach you could possibly have to an industry otherwise associated with technological advancement and innovation. That's another 10 years of Bethesda already sewn up, and we can pretty much say right now what those games will be, and how they'll play.

There's a reason The Last of Us' 2022 remake rubbed people up the wrong way, and why Elden Ring felt like it held the mediasphere in its hand for a solid couple of months.

Humans.Need.New.Things. New stimulus, new conversations. In art and digital escapist spaces especially, it is paramount to never rest on your laurels.