No, definitely not. Everything is so accessible now and instant. Even the media with consoles is a dying trend - "you mean I actually have to plug a cartridge/DVD/Blu-Ray in? Eeewwww." More so with the likes of faster and faster broadband - at the apartment block we're in, you can pre-order 1GB fibre internet for £60 per month. We're getting to the stage that the bottleneck is the storage device within the PC/console - the interface of mainstream hard drives simply cannot cope.
It's the same with music. Hundreds of albums and thousands of songs, stored on your phone. Or more likely these days, the world library of tunes simply streamed to your device. There's none of the chart listening/recording going on to the same level as there was in the 1980s. None of the look and feel of new albums that you saved up your cash for and handed over to a bloke in a shop on a Saturday afternoon.
It's all now-quickly-bored-done, these days - and not for the benefit of anyone, imo. There's almost an obsession to chase and demand the 'new thing' that you hardly have any chance to appreciate what's right in front of you.
Death by choice. And it shows no sign of slowing down.
I might add a slight addition here to my own post.
Had a chat recently with a Steam fwend in the US who asked me about the backlog of non-started games that bloat the majority of gamer's libraries. He was saying that he didn't have the time, nor the patience to actually to make any headway in a lot of them, before ultimately saying that it made him feel a little anxious.
My first impression was to 'get a grip' - we're hardly talking First World problems here. However, I can kind of see some logic in what he's saying. Many games these days are so complex and require so much commitment, that they can be too daunting for a majority of players. Most of us lead busy lives and being able to mentally set aside 50, 100, or more hours into a game is not only unrealistic, but in a way a bit 'intimidating'.
The likes of ARMA III for myself - I'd really like to get into. But I know for the first 20 hours or so, I will be totally useless and more of a burden to the team that I'll be a part of online. Plus, if the learning curve is that steep with plenty of keyboard commands and inputs to remember, its likely that after a busy day at work, a more simple FPS will suffice. A bit like starting that 1,000 page novel you've been interested in and seen sat on the shelf for years, but have never got around to it.
Games in the 1990s never seemed to suffer from this level of detail, commitment and requirement from the player, to begin with.
