I agree OP, its been tough lately. The only regular current year releases I get are from music, books and manga/artbooks. But the bulk of my purchases have gone to restored and rescanned older films spanning decades, then older games. Most of the gaming content I watch is from channels covering classic retro stuff that has either been unreleased in the west or is fairly obscure and little known. Same thing with films, most of what I've purchased has been completely new to me and my girlfriend and we've had a blast watching nearly all of them.
There is an absolute sea of media out there ripe for discovery that is, depending on one's own tastes, experience and expectations very rewarding and enjoyable. I'd love to get into modern emulation on a powerful PC but haven't gone that route yet. Sadly the game industry loves to either neglect their past or nickel and dime the consumer any chance they get, meanwhile I have old movies getting an actual quality "remaster" from the camera negatives with incredible chunky boxes filled with booklets, posters, stickers, promo materials etc for far cheaper than any game(physical that is).
Its a funny situation, the tech now is impressive, but the content is severely lacking though granted quality is in the eye of the beholder. Its just funny to see people so easy to fork over their cash or digital dosh for the same trite year after year. I used to bemoan older folks growing up who'd compare then new things to prior works but I wish people would be more scrutinizing and guard their wallets more.
