>>718895220
Sure you can't just point to one thing as the answer to everything going on, it's all a concoction of various factors. But the numbers for engagement do appear to be down quite significantly. There was also a recent Japanese study on the average age of players per franchise, the results are worrying.
To pretend social media has nothing to do with it is bonkers, low attention spans are directly linked to social media. When your brain is wired for this sort of dopamine drip regular video games can't compete. Watching kids switch their 3 seconds of attention between scrolling their tiktok feed and playing video games simulaniously is sad. They barely have the awareness to realize they've gotten a headshot in Roblox, how do you expect someone like that to follow the story of Expedition 33? Vidya of the future is gonna look very different from what we're used to.
