The console market is undergoing a contraction, and the competition isn't like it used to be. Hard numbers for sales data is harder to come by, as opposed to 15+ years ago when NPD was basically giving out complete hardware data and a fair amount of software data (at least Top 10-20). Also, a lot of regulars have left, either because life got in the way and they just moved on, or they lost interest in gaming (or at least discussing it), or they got perma-banned for being habitual troublemakers, or they got run off by said habitual troublemakers. This was always a small community, and it's gotten smaller over the years. That's why I made that post a few weeks back telling the remaining people to be better users (and to be fair the number of mod reports coming in has slowed down as of late).

I think a lot of us are just a bit fed up with the industry at this point and not without reason. It's a bit frustrating to see but personally it hasn't been too bad for me since I have less time for gaming than I used to anyways. Might be a hot take but I'm frankly okay with it if there's only 1 or 2 new games a year I want to play at this point.