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According to a frankly massive new report, video games are struggling to retain people's attention in an age that's becoming more and more obsessed with quickfire, increasingly easy to access entertainment.

This has been a topic of debate for years now, but said report, which was put together by a gaming industry advisory company called Epyllion, goes into some serious detail.

Basically, the report claims that mobile apps — not to be confused with mobile gaming, in the traditional sense — are on the rise when it comes to active users and overall money-making.

Social media, online betting, online gambling, and pornography are what so many people are deciding to spend their limited free time on. The study finds that there's also been a startling increase in the use of AI-based apps.

"Video Gaming's post-pandemic problem isn't that players choose to watch TikTok instead of buying a AAA game, or subscribe to Onlyfans instead of buying a PlayStation; it's that on a Friday evening, players are placing a growing share of their time and spend elsewhere," the report summarises, in rather brutal fashion.

It's probably not the kind of thing that companies like Sony will want to hear — although they'll obviously have their own departments keeping track of such trends for the sake of financial forecasts and the like.

Still, these companies will be wondering what more can be done to bring people into their ecosystems. If turning on a console and sitting down to play a game is deemed too much of an effort, then the industry's got a bit of a problem on its hands.

What's your take on all of this? Do you ever sit staring at your phone instead of booting up a game? Is this just an inevitable lifestyle trend? Keep scrolling to the comments section below.

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[source issuu.com, via eurogamer.net]