I can't say I ever entirely lost interest in video games, but the 2011-2015 period was definitely a low point of interest for me. From what I could remember from when I was born in 1998 until 2010, video games were my main interest in passion (along with foreign history and cultures). I stayed very up to date with releases and liked to play new and old games. But then I got into other interests around the time, mainly professional team sports and classic cartoons (the latter has subsided greatly over the past few years) and so I had less time devoted to reading video games.

However, the greatest factor to the decline was when my parents bought me a laptop for my birthday. I started rarely playing video games and liked to spend my free time on YouTube mostly. By 2011 I pretty much stopped following video game news, and for the next few years I wasn’t into gaming as much. (One exception was fighting games, I loved playing Dead or Alive, Tekken and Street Fighter during this time). I tried to play some games but would never finish them, Xenosaga being one of those games. The turning point was March 2015 when I started Final Fantasy IX. I forgot how much I liked video games, and man did I enjoy that game, but stupid me didn’t bother grinding so I got stuck at a part I couldn’t get past.

This was followed up by The Last of Us a few months later, this is when I realized I was back into video games. I actually kept playing a game until I got to the end and beat it, and I was craving for more. Next up was the Resident Evil franchise, which really is a defining part of my life at that time. Metal Gear and Yakuza are the other two franchises I had fallen in love with since.

Unfortunately, now I’m left in a situation where I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do.

 What about any of you? Sorry if there are any mistakes I did not proofread.

Yeah, that did happen to me before. There was a period of time in my life where I rarely played games for months. I was quite focued on drawing projects I was working on, so most of my free time went to that, cutting out time I used to set for gaming. Many of my consoles went untouched for quite awhile.

Well, for me the way it goes is not that I lose interest in gaming itself per se, it's more that I don't play video games as often as I used to (for the same reason as you, the damn laptop ) However, video games are always an interest for me, and I love reading and learning about them, so in that sense I haven't lost interest. So, I guess it depends what you mean by that.

Around 2010-2011, I think I was busy trying to apply to a really prestigious high school, so I didn't play anything at all besides Team Fortress 2.

All the time. I go through stages where I play a lot and then burn out and sometimes it takes months to come back. It's been gradually getting worse since this generation started though because of the nature of the industry (lack of fresh innovation and most games feeling "samey").

Late 6th gen/early 7th gen. I had fallen out of love with JRPGs for the most part, and everyone seemed intent on making ugly brown military FPS. I turned my interests and focus away to tabletop RPGs, returning back to video games upon watching my roommate play Persona 3. I tried getting back in, writing reviews of games for a little website, but that turned the hobby into work, so I just stopped entirely again. I didn't really get back into video games until my then-fiance started playing Skyrim, and that pulled me back in.

Everybody has to go to through it.

I recall buying Rayman Origins and Xenoblade. Both looked amazing and had fantastic reviews.
They severely burned me out and I stopped gaming for a few months.

End of Wii U era was forgettable and awful for everyone. nx rumors weren't better, but around the time the Switch got announced, both Sony and Nintendo have introduced amazing games.

My low point was early 2005- holiday 2006, the waning days of the GC / PS2. The last GC game I purchased was RE4 in early 2005. From there I think I can count on one had the number of video games I bought in the following 2 year span, and this includes both the PS2 and the DS which I got as a Christmas gift that same year.

I stopped playing games regularly during this time. The initial launch of the 360 failed to capture my interest with no real compelling software, and I had no intentions of dropping 599 U-S DOLLARZ! on the PS3 the following year. Then during the 06 holidays I played the Wii at a relative's for the first time, and that sparked my interest in the gaming industry once again.

I didn't acquire a Wii until August 2007, but once I did I had games like Prime 3 and Galaxy to pull me right back into what I loved about gaming so much, and at the end of the year I also picked up a 360 with COD4 (c'mon, you all know you played this one when it came out!), and I haven't had another lapse in gaming since.