I blame the products of the video game giants myself. My gaming buddies range from near-30s I've played with for many years to a young teenager. We were all console-first for a long time and played new release AAA games like what's mentioned here, the Call of Dutys, Assassins Creed, etc. What is pretty much everyone playing now? PC instead of console. Indie games, smaller budget games, or old stuff we already had. Not necessarily because of money but because of the fun factor. I don't think I know a single person who has the newest Call of Duty entry and five years ago that would have been almost 100% among my gaming group.

The only thing I think I have that's new is Forza Horizon 5 that I got through Xbox Game Pass, played it a decent amount, but we got bored with it. My gaming lately has consisted of modded old racing games (bought for <$10 and make devs $0), modded GTAV (mods don't give Rockstar $ either and it's been years since originally bought), and random shit like the last couple days we've been playing a fucking hunting game.