transience posted...there are more options than ever and the mainstream world sticks to games longer. I think both can be true.
Yeah, I agree with this. On one hand, the sheer number of ways to play and consume video games has exploded in an incredible way. You have everything from free-to-play mobile games to premium console games, and everything in between, stretched across a numerous different successful platforms.
Undoubtedly, I think people today -- everyone, not just younger generations -- live in a perpetual state of anticipation and hype for the future, rather than truly processing and playing what's out right now, but at the same time, the biggest games today aren't the ones that have only just released. All the big games are ones that by their very nature are meant to stick around, to be played for infinitely, and see continual updates and new content to keep people coming back and hooked.
People hooked on the biggest games today have more reason than ever before to keep playing those games for one, two, three years after they have released, consistently. A God of War can come out, get all the hype, but after it had its time in the sun, people are back to League of Legends or Fortnite or Minecraft without missing a beat.