I've never fallen out of love with video games, however I went through a period between about 2004-2008 where I barely played any games, and my overall interest in them was fairly low. With that said, I did buy a Wii and a 360 during this time and played games like Mario Galaxy, Halo 2, Mass Effect, and Smash Bros Brawl. But the console that made me jump head first back into gaming and not only reignited my love of gaming, but also got me into collecting was the Sega Saturn.
I never had a Saturn as a kid, but two of my close friends growing up did. Probably because it was a novelty for me to play it at their houses when I'd hang out with them, that console had a massive amount of nostalgia around it. Around 2007/2008 I began to become very sentimental for the 90s and the things I enjoyed as a kid. I went to a local independent game shop one day and bought a Saturn along with Virtua Fighter 2, Daytona USA, and Nights, and I was pretty much in heaven! Unfortunately I did have to sell off my initial Saturn collecting, and it actually wouldn't be until the late 2010s that I got back into US Saturn collecting, but it was that purchase that kickstarted over a decade of becoming obsessed with retro games, newer games, collecting, and all sorts of other things that led me to where I am today.