i buy new games then i just replay ninja gaiden black and fantasize about owning a gaming rig that could run SMT Nocturne on PCSX2 in glorious upscaled resolution with added AA and AF...which i'll be getting soon.
Stop buying new games so you can get that new rig faster!
It's basically what everyone here is saying. People get tired of them. For different reasons. Some people find games aren't developing, others just find better things to do.
As it is with any hobby, you do it out of interest or fun. When it's no longer interesting, there's no harm in stopping. I know in the heat of the moment, your hobby can seem like you'll love it forever, but forever is a long time...
I remember when a friend of mine more or less gave up video games, because 'they're all the same - there wasn't anything he hadn't played'. Now while I disagreed, he did have a point. For example, no matter what spin you add, or graphical mprovement, or story...an FPS remains an FPS. How different do they make them, really?
When you give up a hobby that takes so much time, and start looking at hobbies that actually make you grow as a person, it can be eye opening. Now, there,s nothing wrong with games. In fact, there's a huge benefit, I feel, in playing games. It's just that my days of playing games for 8 hour sessions until I finish them, only to anticipate the next is gone, at least for now.
Yeah, I think games are an amazing hobby. Whether people believe it or not, you can a learn a lot of ideas and things you would have never known by playing different stuff.
I just don't know if it's the fatigue of the consoles lasting so long or what, I don't know why that would be the reason though, but it's the only noticeable difference that I can think of, but maybe that just means you're right, and the reasons I'm just getting bored with them is due to many underlying reasons.
Kind of a bummer though :/
Hell, Skyrim was my most anticipated game of like all-time. I can't remember wanting to play something so badly, and then I got it, played the shit out of it for two or so months (which is a large amount of time) but I just fizzled out. I didn't beat the MQ or numerous, numerous side-quests. I always want to, or at least I think I do, but I usually just find myself deciding to do something else.