I hear you. It’s only worse now. Even with everything is connected, if you haven’t played recently, there’s an hour of console/game updates to download before you can play. Or worse, you spend an hour f’ing with accounts trying to get logged in, accept new terms, confirm to 2FA updates, link game dev account to console platform account, etc.

The few times I actually found motivation and time to play, it just added layer of frustration on top of whatever I was feeling. Fwiw, the Nintendo Switch mitigated a some of these issues (not all) and I eventually found the Zelda game to be helpful.