Poll: How Much Money Do You Spend On Video Games Per Year? (help me with my work)

[Lucifer dern]

Yes is one of those times again escapist where you get to help me with my college work.
I just need to know on average how much money you spend on are beloved video games. Just the games, not the things you play them on.
If you feel in the mood to comment however please answer these questions for me
How often do you buy games that are pre-owned?
and how often do you play free games? (games designed and intended to be free e.g. flash games)

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Around £346-433 (converted from Euros, as is every other amount in this post). I tend to go on a buying spree every three months or so, each time for about £108, on average.

In total, I get around 10 new releases a year at prices between £17 to £60, depending on what system they're for and whether I get a particular game at release or wait around for a price drop.

I also buy a number of pre-owned older releases, mostly from older generations. How many I buy and how much I spend on them is hard to guess. It depends on me coming across something I like, which tends to happen at random intervals. Though I try to spend as little as possible on them. Let's just put a £50 on there for conveniences sake.

I rarely ever play free games, with the exception of roguelikes like Dungeon Crawl, which I get into 2 or 3 times a year for a couple of days.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Not much, maybe $200-300 Aus a year, which is about 2-3 games, or more for the same price recently since the combination of Steam and a net cap greater than 10gig has entered the picture.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

not more than 50pounts. I buy maybe 2 or 3 games a year since i havent upgraded my PC in Years i get them pretty cheap.

 

[Etherlad]

As soon as i had a regular income i'd say i bought overall a game per month so that's somewhere between 400-600 Pounds dpending on the platform (because Console Games are more expensive).

Everybody who plays MMORPGs and only has a few hours per day like me will probably agree with me that you spend much less money for games suddenly because MMOs use up so much time.
So since i started playing MMOs and i include the monthly fee i'd say i'm down to 200 Pounds max. (yes there i said it, MMOs actually save money for regular gamers)

 

[Danceofmasks]

Well, I've been buying games since 1981 (when I got my first job at the age of 6) ... and I own about 1,200 games.
So, on average, that's over 500 pounds a year.

This is not counting hardware, such as a tournament edition arcade stick.

Add to that the silly amount of games I've played in the video arcades, and I've probably spent over AU$100,000 on gaming over the years.

Still, that's much much less than the amount I've invested in artificial intelligence research, so I think it's a sensible amount proportional to my income.

 

[Lucifer dern]

thanks alot to all the people dealing with the fact I'm using a diffrent currency then theres!

 

[GonzoGamer]

Did you want us to include rental service fees or just game purchases?
I did and it's the bulk of what I spend: 3/5ths.
My used purchases are about 50/50 with the new. Usually they're just games from the rental service I decide to keep.

 

[HasimirFenring]

I guess about 250 pounds. I buy a lot of games, but most of them as soon as the price drops.

 

[Haz88]

It varies wildly from month to month, but I think I spent around £280, converted from DKK. I usually only buy 1 or 2 titles around launch and the rest are discounted, digital downloads, second hand and bargain bin stuffers.
As a student I try to stretch the contents of my wallet as far as I can, and Assassin's Creed 2 isn't worse because of me being a bit behind the curve.

 

[Lucifer dern]

kinda interesting, the reason I asked is because when you buy a preowned game, none of the money goes to the developer of the game.

 

[CheckD3]

A lot of the games I buy are used, with usually at least only 1-2 new games in there. I'll spend $120 US on new games, then buy about another $60 in "big" used games, or more recent titles that are used. Then I'll probably buy about 15 games at about $7 a piece, so to round up, another $100 US

So in total it comes to about 175 pounds I guess. This year will be more since I've already boughten Bulletstorm new, and I'm soon to preorder Duke Nukem Forever and Infamous 2, both of them the special edition, so that's 160 pounds there and I've still got plenty of smaller games to buy to beef up my PS2 collection while also getting cheaper classics for PS3/X360

I rent a lot of my games from work for free so I'm able to get away with not buying a lot of the big new titles, and only buy older games I've wanted to play for a while, or a game I liked when I rented that's usually less than 10 pounds roughly

But it's about 175 pounds converted

 

[veloper]

Including or excluding the hardware required?

 

[TehCookie]

I spend around 150 euros/$200 a year, and normally refuse to buy a game over $40 (unless I know it's going to be really good like Portal 2). The majority of what I buy are used PS2 games and new DS games. I rarely play free games, I have a ton of them on my phone but I also keep my DS in my purse so I always have it on me. I have an extremely short attention span.

 

[Lucifer dern]

Including or excluding the hardware required?

Nope just the games.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I probably spend alot of money on games, more than I think :S I really love computer games and I have every platform. I have a thing where I can happily play somthing for ages and then I will totally go off it and then go onto somthing else then I will go back to the other thing again. I think its that aspect of my personality that means I spend alot more than is sane.

 

[zidine100]

really depends on what i find, id say somewhat between £30- 50

buts thats due in fact i can get games for a pound/ 2 pounds at cash converters, and i havent had a decent gaming rig untill this year.

oh and btw dont try and guilt trip me into oh noes the developers arent getting any moneys, yes i know get over it, im buying my games legally you want to fight about it.

 

[MrGalactus]

Just new games, or pre owned too? Because Pre owned is basically all I get.