It's the lack of time and bigger responsibilities for sure. But I also think when you're a kid. These games are brand new. You're playing a sandbox game for the first times in your life. But after you play a series for so long, it becomes too repetitious. Even if it has a lot of content. I think our brains just get bored of it. So your time ends going to something else. You lose the kid wonder.

Not everyone's gonna be like this. But its a factor too. I use to love catching every pokemon. I bought all the games for that. I EV trained pokemon all the time. Each game probably had 200 hrs in it. But when D/P came out. I stopped caring. I didn't buy all the games. Skipped remakes. And only played the story modes. And that was it. I didn't even bother buying B/W2 I felt splitting up the story was lame. I still have time for long games. But I just don't want to bother doing all that work. And catching more and more pointless Pokemon. When I never use them.

5 reasons gta5 is subpar and R* are overrated devs

they striped the game vigilante, firefighter, paramedic, home evasion, exports, drug delivery, ect are gone, less interiors to enter, less house properties garages to buy (6-8 car per character lol) also no casino in a SA based GTA lol

story missions is the shortest list of any console GTA game and in some cases by a large margin

story itself i didnt feel as connected the back and forth between the 3 characters ruined the flow and character development, story missions didt take advantage of the full map many areas were left unexplored after story was beat

controls suck laggy sluggish and plain stupid

online dlc and general dlc delays are lol worthy still no heist and tons of potential dlc like zombies and story dlc havent arrived in over a yr of release

Time is not so much an issue for me, it's how I spend the time given. And I hate GTA V, worst GTA ever made.

The only thing worth playing on it is the online.

If Rockstar decides to put out some DLC with some amazing cheats that I can really have fun with, then I will spend countless hours on GTA again. Until then, the game is meh.