Sony made a strange announcement about their new generation console, teasing us with a BMW i3 inspired controller, with a slick dual tone design. This, combined with the news of the release of Modern Warfare Season 3 in tandem has led me to the realisation of a simple fact: I couldn’t care less about video games any more. It’s a weird feeling, because there may still be a day when I want to pick up a controller (what will controllers look like in the future? What cars would their design be based on?) and play a first person shooter, idling in my living room, or training myself to get better in the hopes of being a Twitch streamer (if Twitch is still around…), but right now, I know that there are more productive ways to spend my time. Mine is a lost generation of gamers who spent a lot of our time playing first person shooters without the opportunity to get rich the way gamers today could. There were still wealthy gamers, but there wasn’t the same amount of money in the game, much like modern footballers, earning an order of magnitude more money than footballers in the past. There were millionaire footballers back then, but now even the worst premier league clubs pay their players seven figures. Simply put, video games did not provide me and other gamers a legitimate career back then and now I’m properly past it. There are better hobbies, and better ways to waste your time. Even making stupid TikTok videos would probably stand me in better stead for the future. So be it, then, it’s time to put away childish things, permanently, for now.