Still Asleep
The last video game I actually finished was Majora’s Mask on the N64. After that, nothing. I kept thinking someday I’d get back into gaming, but years passed and nothing stuck. I assumed it meant I’d just grown out of it, the way you grow out of things.
Then I read that someone at Nintendo had a different theory: that a lot of us didn’t stop loving games, we just got tired of the same game being released over and over with different graphics. The formulas became too predictable, and your brain just shuts down.
I’d been blaming myself for losing interest. Turns out it was the industry that had gotten bored first.
Nintendo’s betting that something genuinely new might wake people like me back up. Maybe it will.