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EpicMickeyDrew
11/04/2025
05:49 PM
#1
How much do you usually plan to spend on games? $100/month? $200? How much do you spend on gaming every year? Do you budget for this at all?
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YellowSUV
11/04/2025
05:52 PM
#2
I honestly don't budget for games at all. I have a huge ass backlog and rarely buy any new games besides a few each year. I probably only buy like 5 new full priced games max a year.
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MagiMarthKoopa
11/04/2025
05:57 PM
#3
No more than one game per month, and only my top few series for full price
pokedude900
11/04/2025
05:58 PM
#4
These days I buy new games infrequently enough that I don't need a budget. Also most games I buy I play for my Youtube channel. Which doesn't earn much, but it's enough to at least break even.
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Aristoph
11/04/2025
05:59 PM
#5
Less than $60 a month. But I don't budget. I just get that number because I can't remember the last time I bought more than 2 games in a month. And Battlefield 6 is the first time in ages that I've paid full price for one ( not pre-ordered , though, I still have some self respect).

Gaming is still a surprisingly cheap hobby, all things considered.
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random_man9119
11/04/2025
05:59 PM
#6
None... I just buy a bunch of games all the time... I don't really plan it out
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rick_alverado
11/04/2025
06:00 PM
#7
That's not the way my budget works. When I have spending money, I divide it up between my current Future Purchase lists. When I have enough assigned to a list to purchase the top item on the list, I purchase it. Currently two of my lists have something video game related at the top, Batman Forever for Super Nintendo, and a Switch 2. Three lists if you count a new phone as video game related.
ReturnOfDevsman
11/04/2025
06:31 PM
#8
It's decreased pretty steadily over time. In high school, it was pretty much all of my spending money, but with the proliferation of the second hand market and digital distribution, and the immense explosion of average playtimes, and the freebies phenomenon, it just started making less and less sense to spend a lot of money. I haven't spent anything on gaming since the Steam summer sale of '23.
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MJOLNRVII
11/04/2025
06:32 PM
#9
random_man9119 posted...
None... I just buy a bunch of games all the time... I don't really plan it out
This. Though I feel like I spend less thanks to my backlog growing faster than I can get through it.
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dummy420
11/04/2025
06:34 PM
#10
I dont really budget in general. I've always had an internal wait and see limit for myself. Normally if I still want something after a while ill buy it. If I dont, which is far more common, I dont buy it.
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Al--Mualim
11/04/2025
06:40 PM
#11
On average it's 1 game every 3-5 months if that but no actual budget
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archizzy
11/04/2025
06:40 PM
#12
I dont have a set budget. If there is something I want I can buy whatever it is. Gaming wise I buy whatever I want. Its such a small fraction of my disposable income.

That said I tend to get games cheap anyway because with big large games I wait for all DLC/expansions and all the bugs to be mostly worked out so while Im incredibly excited for many games I am also very patient and dont play them until years later and they are heavily discounted by then. Ive played some amazing games this year from 3 to 5 years ago that have all been heavily discounted.

I buy some stuff at launch though but I play 1 game at a time and it would be incredibly rare for more than 2 games to come out in a single month Id be interested in.
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Homeless_Waifu
11/04/2025
06:44 PM
#13
~$50 a month.

Either a couple of games that are on sale or I limit myself to one new game.

I still wanna get a new ps5 controller since mine has the stick drift
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StormSignal
11/04/2025
06:45 PM
#14
i don't buy games regularly enough for that. i probably get <1 brand new game a year and mostly wait for sales and even then it's sporadic. like i might buy a couple then go several months before anything else. or if i'm having a gaming era i might spend $15-20 each week? lol
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FL81
11/04/2025
06:46 PM
#15
me, waiting for a game to hit $5 on a sale, and then never actually play it after buying
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kingdrake2
11/04/2025
06:47 PM
#16
120$ average gaming budget.

30$ a week.
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Freddie_Mercury
11/04/2025
06:48 PM
#17
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AuthenticZac
11/04/2025
06:49 PM
#18
I'll allow myself to spend up to $100 in July & December, but the rest of the year is closer to $0/month. Maybe if there's a special sale on PSN/Steam, I'll drop up to $20 for a game, but it's incredibly rare (Case in point: Silksong is the only game I've bought in the last 4 months).
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UnholyMudcrab
11/04/2025
06:49 PM
#19
I make gaming purchases infrequently enough that there's no point in having one
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BlueAnnihilator
11/04/2025
06:50 PM
#20
I don't buy games often enough to have one
Kim_Seong-a
11/04/2025
06:53 PM
#21
I buy games pretty infrequently. Like I bought Silent Hill f and Digimon Time Stranger together, and together those were close to 200 dollars.

But before that the last big game I bought was Stellar Blade when it released on Steam. And before that...fuck...mightve been Metaphor? Idk. And I don't see any new games that interest me on the horizon.

Outside of those rare big purchases, I might drop 20-30 dollars a month if there's a good sale.
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Alucard188
11/04/2025
06:55 PM
#22
Don't have a budget. I look at money and money out in what I spend my disposable income on. There are a couple of games coming out that I want to spend full price money on, but other than that, everything gets to the discount pile before I buy it.
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Cocytus
11/04/2025
06:57 PM
#23
Couple hundred a year
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Joelypoely
11/04/2025
06:59 PM
#24
I don't have a budget for it. Mostly I'm just buying cheap roguelites on Steam
creativerealms
11/04/2025
07:02 PM
#25
To check the digital sales when I want a new game and see if a JRPG is on sale.
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HeroFlyChao
11/04/2025
07:06 PM
#26
MagiMarthKoopa posted...
No more than one game per month, and only my top few series for full price

Generally this.

Kirby Air Riders is going to be my November game, and Absolum was my October game.
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PMarth2002
11/04/2025
08:44 PM
#27
I don't budget, but I basically only buy a game here and there when its discounted, or a few games when steam has one of its major seasonal sales.
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Cuticrusader09
11/04/2025
08:46 PM
#28
I dont budget. If I want something I buy it.
Trumpo
11/04/2025
08:47 PM
#29
There's physical games I bought 8 years ago that I still have not played.
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Demigod_Elessar
11/04/2025
08:49 PM
#30
Not necessarily a strict budget, but I only buy maybe two or three full price games per year. The rest that I buy are cheap, discounted games on rather Xbox, steam, or Switch stores.

If I had to warrant a guess, maybe $400-600 total per year?
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EpicMickeyDrew
11/04/2025
09:20 PM
#31
Trumpo posted...
There's physical games I bought 8 years ago that I still have not played.
What games?
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kingdrake2
11/04/2025
09:24 PM
#32
EpicMickeyDrew posted...
What games?


i'll go first.

adventure time explore the dungeon because i don't know (this is the actual game title for ps3).

haven't stopped ps3 gaming. ps4 and up are more common.
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BearlyWilling
11/04/2025
09:28 PM
#33
Not really in a position where I need to budget for a game purchase but I also dont buy anything at release unless I really want it (or its a silent hill game ).
Hmm...
Evening_Dragon
11/04/2025
09:42 PM
#34
Is it on my wishlist?
Is it massively discounted?
Will I actually play it within the year?

That's my budget.
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KainWind
11/04/2025
09:43 PM
#35
I buy whatever I want, which really isn't that much.
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Glob
11/04/2025
09:45 PM
#36
I dont budget for games at all, largely because there arent that many that interest me these days.

If I want a game, Ill buy it. The price really isnt a factor. But I also dont buy many games.

It means that I end up buying probably less than 5 in a year and its really not a significant amount of money.
Sephirothe
11/04/2025
09:46 PM
#37
I dont budget for games. Its also unusual for me to buy more than 2 games per year
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ReturnOfDevsman
11/04/2025
09:47 PM
#38
Trumpo posted...
There's physical games I bought 8 years ago that I still have not played.
Rookie numbers tbh.

My oldest physical unplayed game I purchased in 2010.

That was Final Fantasy X. I'm thinking about playing it after Death Stranding, though, which would make my oldest physical unplayed game Final Fantasy X-2, also purchased in 2010.
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buddah86
11/04/2025
09:48 PM
#39
Freddie_Mercury posted...
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LightHawKnight
11/04/2025
09:49 PM
#40
I dont drink, I dont smoke, I eat out occasionally with friends, but not every week, so I got the money to dump on videogames.
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Trumpo
11/04/2025
10:09 PM
#41
Nier Automata
Spider-Man
Battlefield 1
Detroit: Become Human
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vycebrand2
11/04/2025
10:10 PM
#42
New games yearly $240

increase in prices have cut that in half.

So the 4 I use to get once a season is now
twice a year.

I skipped FFT and the DQR 1 and 2.

It looks like MP4 will be my last buy this year
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