North American gamers spend an average of $325 annually, Western Europeans spend $170 and prioritise deals and offer

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Ummmm no fucking shit. Now do fast food and car payments. Tell me something else I already know.

We are the most rabid consumers in the history of humankind. Kneel before your gluttonous overlords.
 
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HeisenbergFX4 said:
And?

I 100% buy MTX when I see something I want

In World of Tanks they are bad about releasing over powered expensive premium tanks and do I own most of them?

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I can't lie, I'd buy an over powered tank in any game. Even better if it transforms into megatron . How much did you say you paid for one of these tanks? I got no problem with having an unfair advantage aslong as the advantage is mine! 😅😅🤷🏾‍♂️
 
EruditeHobo said:
Ummmm no fucking shit. Now do fast food and car payments. Tell me something else I already know.

We are the most rabid consumers in the history of humankind. Kneel before your gluttonous overlords.
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Yeah I can't lie I spend crazy money in car mods/ performance upgrades. It's better tha. Forza or GT in real life. My TOMs exhaust on my ISF sounds godly!
 
ecosse_011172 said:
Any European who visits a large American city will have their mind blown by the scale of the poverty. It's pretty heartbreaking.
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Any Australian that visits the south in most European countries will have their mind blown by the poverty, see how easy that is?

I've personally seen more poverty in EU states than I have in the US.

The US is huge a victim to drug addictions and mental illness above all else magnifying the issue moving it onto the streets in plain view.
 
To every1 here admitting they spend way more- its not a surprise, we are hc gaming forum, many of us spend 1-2k usd/euro yearly on gaming, some much more even, thats natural, and its not coz we are rich ppl(most of us arent, its good enough we arent poor) we simply like gaming that much.
If we were users of hc angler forum and were all angler hobbyst that would still warrant 5x+ yearly spending on that activity vs avg super amatour casual angler.

By us being here on GAF(which pretty sure has sizeable %age of middleaged and older ppl) we are not the norm, our yearly gaming spending will be far above the norm too :)
 
TerribleAtThisGame said:
I'm more baffled that people know what they spend on games. I don't even have a ballpark figure I could conjure up. I just know I'm cheap as fuck and buy most things on sales.
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Have my "purchases" in an excel sheet, all the way back from NES and forward. Date, location and price/cost, and if I still own the game.
 
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R$350 is one "normal" game here in Brazil
R$400 is a more consolidated tittle, like CoD or whatever
R$500 was Mario Kart World - but you can find easily for 400ish with discounts or gift cards

...but more are getting into piracy again
 
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I'll probably hit around that $325. I'm trying to cut back on buying games since I tend to buy and never play but there are like 5 more games that are like a must for me to buy this year(and not play most likely). You know what I think I will change that. As soon as I buy the game I'll stick it in the ps5 and start the game at least.
 
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Fuck me.... I haven't updated the video game spending thread in a minute but I'm way over that amount. Spent $300 odd dollars at gamestop getting used Switch games like a month ago and then bought dk banaza.

With the ns2 included i must be at least $1200 for the year.

I'm not a one pump Madden chump
 
Rivet said:
Poverty rate is actually a lot higher in the US, but I agree that it doesn't matter much for video games spending.

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Poverty rates in OECD countries 2022| Statista

Costa Rica had the highest poverty rate of OECD member countries.
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The difference is that in most of these European countries there's a good public system for health care, hospitals, education, mental institutions, government grants/help etc. that covers pretty well the poor people. Plus have a more healty food and lifestyle than let's say the USA (less car and more walking, more fresh real food than ultra-processed one).

So you see way less homeless, zombie drug addicts, mentally ill people in the streets in most of these European countries, and a huge portion of these ones are illegal inmigrants that in recent years massively came mostly from Africa.

cinnamonandgravy said:
man, always some europoors insecure about their disposable income

compared to much of the world, US and EU citizens are both extremely wealthy (have some perspective, people)
but adjusted for PPP, US has higher median household income than EU--meaning US households have more disposable income
average US household also has a larger house, more cars, etc. if you care about that sort of thing.
US boys just have more money, not a big deal.
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The average household in USA is severy distorted by the few billionaires from US big tech, big farma, oil companies, military industry complex, banking system, etc. and doesn't reflect the huge disparity between rich and poor people, while other countries have a lower average but there's lower disparity. It's also distorned by not counting them that in EU countries there's many things included as taxes removed directly from the salary, while in the US are paid separatedly and at a more expensive price (health care, education...).

To look at the percentage of poor people in the country gives you a more accurate picture of poorness. And by doing so, there's a bigger percentage of poor people in the US than in the EU.
 
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Dafuq are these numbers? I'm a poor Eastern European and I spend more than 170 Euros a year on single-player games. The only accurate thing is the sale aspect, as I do in fact only buy on sale or on cheap third parties.
 
Europeans generally mature faster than thier NA counterparts and 'grow out' of gaming earlier to pursue other interests.(average age 31 in EU/ 37 in US)
Americans also have a higher rate of consumption and advertising.
 
Mithos said:
Have my "purchases" in an excel sheet, all the way back from NES and forward. Date, location and price/cost, and if I still own the game.
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It's weird because I keep lists for other shit, specifically movies as I'm a massive cinema nerd. But somehow I never did for gaming. This sounds like a cool historical document honestly.
 
There's so many deal for free games all the time (or games dropped to $1-2), you could create a huge backlog of games without even needing to spend $10/year.

Doesn't stop people from dropping $1000s on hardware and games a year though!
 
TerribleAtThisGame said:
It's weird because I keep lists for other shit, specifically movies as I'm a massive cinema nerd. But somehow I never did for gaming. This sounds like a cool historical document honestly.
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Until you can look up and see you spent 11,000 us$ (~105,000sek) on everything so far (Nintendo + Sony)... excluding PC hardware and games...
 
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Multiple things make sense with this.

- we have a much much bigger problem with coach potatoes and obesity.
- explains why the gaming industry caters to north America
 
I looked at what I spent on just Steam over the last year. Wow, nearly twice the American average. I tend to wait to buy and normally buy on steep sales. This past year I did pre-order a few games, more than usual. Stellar Blade and Yumia. Games really have gone up in price and I spent over $200 just for those two damn games. Even when a game is on sale, they tend to be over $20 and when you buy several games on sale, it adds up quick. So it seems my gaming costs have been going up. Perhaps I need to make a new rule to never buy a game until it is at least 50% off. But when games are now going for $80, even 50% off seems like a lot.
 
Mithos said:
Until you can look up and see you spent 11,000 us$ (~105,000sek) on everything so far (Nintendo + Sony)... excluding PC hardware and games...
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That honestly sounds like a steal from NES to current. I know I'm way over that just in the last 25 years. I still have 90% of it and the majority retained or appreciated, though. Or at least enough important items.
 
DownLikeBCPowder said:
That honestly sounds like a steal from NES to current. I know I'm way over that just in the last 25 years. I still have 90% of it and the majority retained or appreciated, though. Or at least enough important items.
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Well on most platforms I only owned 15 games or less, except for NES, GameCube and PS3 where I had 20-25 games on NES + PS3 and 40~ish on Gamecube.
I also bought most games on sales, only a select few on full price.
 
owandeseis said:
With house rental taking like 80% of our monthly wage at least in Spain nowadays and the price of everything skyrocketing, it's hardly a surprise.

But at least we're the good ones, allowing all kind of immigration and contaminating much less than the fatties in USA right? 😇😇😇
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how much is the wage there and how much does an average person pay for rent?
 
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