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They still play video games.
They just play free shit like Roblox, Fortnite, or a new example like Uma Musume.
That or they play something like Deltarune, which isn't going to drive MASSIVE SPENDING even though the game sold crazy well for an indie game. It's not the big retail prices of the AAA guys, so on a macro level the "big hitters" are selling less (excluding Nintendo and a handful of indie "kings" [stardew valley, balatro, anything toby fox etc]).
Also a lot of peoople just tend to buy (or pirate) a game like Minecraft and put thousands of hours into it. It might be TF2, it might be fightcade, it might be Terraria, it might be Skyrim etc. I think with the slowed output that from the big studios where many of the games that do release wind up like that shitty assassins creed, shitty star wars outlaw, shitty concord, shitty marathon, shitty suicide squad, and so on and so forth. Of course people aren't going to buy those shitty games. I'm sure they'll come out for something like Grand Theft Auto and then you'll see the headlines "GAMING IS SAVED!!!"