So how much did you spend in the last 12 months gaming-wise?

Cyberpunkd

Cyberpunkd

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With all the Game Pass discussion being great value, shit talking Nintendo pricing, etc. I figured I would take a look at how much I actually spend in the last 12 months gaming-wise. You can do it only for yourself, or you can estimate, but the rules are:

1. Add every purchase on the platforms you own
2. Did the GamePass trick? Still probably costs 50€ / year, add that
3. Have PSN+ subscription? NSO? Add that

PC:
I got Steam Deck OLED late Feb 2024, and purchased first game outside the ones I own on April 17th. Total spent on Steam YoY: 186.35€ (59.99€ was BG3, worth it)

PS5:
Sold my PS5 in Jan 2025. Before that I bought Bee Simulator and CP2077, both in May 2024. I probably also did like 3 months total of PSN+. Total spend on PS5 YoY: 73.98€

Nintendo Switch:
Sold my Switch in Jan 2025. Before that I bought 2 games in the first half of 2024. Total spend on Switch YoY: 23.11€

Grand total: 283.44€
 
Trepang2, celeste 5€, game pass 3x12€, dusk 10€, severed steel 3€. Elden ring dlc 30€. Cyberpunk 2077 35€.

130€ I guess in total. It's fair to guess i havent been raging about late stage capitalism or something in nintendo threads.
 
Software: 30 bucks for Satisfactory. My backlog will most likely keep me from buying any new games for at least another 12 months.

Hardware: new pc , a bit over 2k. I also have a Switch 2 bundle pre-ordered, but that's not for me.
 
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Around €700 so far this year (only game software).

As for 2024, here's the full breakdown:
  • 82 PlayStation Games - €2680
    • 21 PS4 Games
    • 61 PS5 Games
  • 53 Switch Games - €1750
  • 38 Xbox Games - €450
    • 8 Xbox 360 Games
    • 15 Xbox One Games
    • 15 Xbox Series X Games
  • Accessories - €460
    • Playstation Portal - €220
    • PS5 Disc Drive - €130
    • Dualsense 30th Anniversary - €80
    • PS5 Vertical Stand - €30
  • PS5 Pro - €800
  • Gaming Subscriptions - €130
    • PS+ Extra 1 Year - €100
    • Xbox Game Pass 1 Month - €10
    • Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 1 Month - €20
  • mTX in Games - €70
    • Zenless Zone Zero - €50
    • Wuthering Waves - €15
    • Genshin Impact - €5
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Total amount spent on gaming in 2024 - €6340
 
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200€ for my Portal in September
100€ for PS+ Premium Subscription
45€ for Final Fantasy XVI
55€ for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
8,99€ for Robocop
5,99€ for Jedi Fallen Order
79,99€ for Assassin's Creed Shadows
49,99€ for Split Fiction
29,99€ for As Dusk Falls
39,99€ for Gran Turismo 7
69,99€ for Astrobot
70€ for a new Dualsense controller
375€ for my PSVR2 (but I gave it back after heavy motion sickness)

So yeah 755€ in like 7 months

Gosh I spent to much money on this thing.
 
Gamepass (kind of free since I got a year with EE broadband).

Spent about £50 on Metaquest games and golf packs.

Sold my PS4 Pro for £200.

Nothing on my Switch.

Daughter bought a few PC games (steam) but with her money.

So -£150
 
Got whole new rig with 9800x3d, didnt buy gpu tho, still using my old trusty 3080ti but even w/o that i spent over 2k usd last month, lets not even go beyond that to whole last year/all the gaming purchases etc lol :)
Gaming is still cheaper than dating in 2025 tho, even in relatively poor country like mine- poland :)
 
PeteBull said:
Got whole new rig with 9800x3d, didnt buy gpu tho, still using my old trusty 3080ti but even w/o that i spent over 2k usd last month, lets not even go beyond that to whole last year/all the gaming purchases etc lol :)
Gaming is still cheaper than dating in 2025 tho, even in relatively poor country like mine- poland :)
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Didn't Poland became gamer's heaven recently ?
 
Baemono said:
Didn't Poland became gamer's heaven recently ?
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Absolutely not, i recently checked AC:S digital standard edition price on polish playstation store- over 89usd :P
First few months after ps5pr0 launch we had big online stores scalping blu-ray drives for over 200usd/piece :P
Even now when u wanna buy ps5pr0+discdrive bundle u gotta spend 1050usd total for it, yup i checked few days ago :D
And dont lemme mention pc parts prices. At launch even worst cooling base 5090 models here were over 4k usd, and top models with liquid cooling were well over 5k usd
Hell even now prices are otherworldy, if u count out "temporarily unavaiable" models of 5090, cheapest is this one:
https://www.x-kom.pl/p/1309814-kart...orce-rtx-5090-gaming-oc-32gb-gddr7-dlss4.html aka 3862 usd

Now if u got top premium watercooled model like this one:
https://www.x-kom.pl/p/1309810-kart...aorus-xtreme-waterforce-32gb-gddr7-dlss4.html aka 4765 usd
Here whole spreadsheet:
And all of this with avg polish salaries 4-5x lower vs US salaries ;D
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New high-end PC, two Switch 2 pre orders, PS5 pro, new chair, a few games, and new keyboard.
Probably around 9800 dollars in total.
The next year will definitely not be similar!
 
I don't believe I made a single video game purchase in the last 12 months.
I did however upgrade my PC and buy a full custom water cooling loop, only to play Resident Evil 2 on Duckstation.
 
No idea, I bought at least:

PS5 Pro
PS5 vertical stand
PS Portal Midnight Black
AC Shadows
POE2 early access
Arma Reforger early access
Monster Hunter Wilds
COD Blops 6
Concord (refunded)

From the top of my head. Microtransactions on top of that probably.

Can't be bothered to look up prices.
 
Thick Thighs Save Lives said:
Around €700 so far this year (only game software).

As for 2024, here's the full breakdown:
  • 82 PlayStation Games - €2680
    • 21 PS4 Games
    • 61 PS5 Games
  • 53 Switch Games - €1750
  • 38 Xbox Games - €450
    • 8 Xbox 360 Games
    • 15 Xbox One Games
    • 15 Xbox Series X Games
  • Accessories - €460
    • Playstation Portal - €220
    • PS5 Disc Drive - €130
    • Dualsense 30th Anniversary - €80
    • PS5 Vertical Stand - €30
  • PS5 Pro - €800
  • Gaming Subscriptions - €130
    • PS+ Extra 1 Year - €100
    • Xbox Game Pass 1 Month - €10
    • Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 1 Month - €20
  • mTX in Games - €70
    • Zenless Zone Zero - €50
    • Wuthering Waves - €15
    • Genshin Impact - €5
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Total amount spent on gaming in 2024 - €6340
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What a hero.
 
Killjoy-NL said:
No idea, I bought at least:

PS5 Pro
PS5 vertical stand
PS Portal Midnight Black
AC Shadows
POE2 early access
Arma Reforger early access
Monster Hunter Wilds
COD Blops 6
Concord (refunded)

From the top of my head. Microtransactions on top of that probably.

Can't be bothered to look up prices.
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How playable is POE2 on the Portal?
 
Probably under 100 bucks...I've been coasting on my 3 year old 3070 PC, Series S and a modded Switch with Retroarch. I think the last game I bought for full price was TotK. I never buy MTX either. My gaming spend went way down. I still haven't tapped everything worth playing in the Epic library.

Just feels like my hardware is good enough and software isn't scarce so I'm content to wait for discounts on new titles. I'll make up for all this not-spending with Switch 2 later.
 
clarky said:
How playable is POE2 on the Portal?
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Perfectly fine, imo. Apart from the connection issues with the itself. It helped that Sony updated it to fix the micro-stutter.

Tbh, 75% of my gametime is spent on Portal, so I play pretty much everything on Portal and I have no issues.

Just need to keep in mind that it's screen is only 1080p, but my tv is a 120hz OLED so I do get all the graphical benefits.

Even the difference between Blops 60fps and 120fps is noticeable, despite Portal's screen being limited to 60hz.
 
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News Tower £12
FF7 Rebirth £45
The Roottrees are Dead £15
SteamWorld Bundle £19

FF13 £4
FF8 £6
Two Point Museum £20
Empires of the Undergrowth £8
Cities Skylines 2 £14

=£143 (~$180)

Total spend directly on Steam is ~£3,000 over 20 years.
 
Killjoy-NL said:
Perfectly fine, imo. Apart from the connection issues with the itself.

Tbh, 75% of my gametime is spent on Portal, so I play pretty much everything on Portal and I have no issues.

Just need to keep in mind that it's screen is only 1080p, but my tv is a 120hz OLED so I do get all the graphical benefits.

Even the difference between Blops 60fps and 120fps is noticeable, despite Portal's screen being limited to 60hz.
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Cheers. I was thinking about the UI and such being difficult to read.

Might pick one up.
 
Cyberpunkd said:
With all the Game Pass discussion being great value, shit talking Nintendo pricing, etc. I figured I would take a look at how much I actually spend in the last 12 months gaming-wise. You can do it only for yourself, or you can estimate, but the rules are:

1. Add every purchase on the platforms you own
2. Did the GamePass trick? Still probably costs 50€ / year, add that
3. Have PSN+ subscription? NSO? Add that

PC:
I got Steam Deck OLED late Feb 2024, and purchased first game outside the ones I own on April 17th. Total spent on Steam YoY: 186.35€ (59.99€ was BG3, worth it)

PS5:
Sold my PS5 in Jan 2025. Before that I bought Bee Simulator and CP2077, both in May 2024. I probably also did like 3 months total of PSN+. Total spend on PS5 YoY: 73.98€

Nintendo Switch:
Sold my Switch in Jan 2025. Before that I bought 2 games in the first half of 2024. Total spend on Switch YoY: 23.11€

Grand total: 283.44€
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Honestly, I don't even want to think about it or I will be self aware of my stupid spending.
 
Probably a couple of thousand easily as I have a hobby budget of several hundred a month. Sometimes I spend more sometimes a lot less but don't keep an exact running total. Once all bills and outgoings are paid for the month any left over is hobby funds.
 
Hard to quantify with precision.
These are my Steam purchases directly from the store, plus I got a bunch of extra stuff from third party resellers (Humble Bundle, which amounts to roughly 130€ for a full year, plus individual titles like Space Marine 2, Dragon Dogma 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Mutant Year Zero, Final Fantasy VII remake, etc).
Overall I'd estimate I must be roughly in the 500€ ballpark.



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Several full priced games and quite a few on sale. Plus a large portion going towards PC peripherals like mice and keyboards and things to mod the latter. And an OLED monitor. Probably close to 2K.
 
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I didnt buy any games at all for 2024, just played my backlog on PS and Gamepass on Xbox - I did the GP conversion trick which cost maybe £40 for 9 months. Also bought a Portal for £200.

This year though I have bought a fair amount - last I worked it out was roughly £130 for games on PS. Have bought a few more since so maybe another £50 - £100 but also sold a load of games for £94 as well so made something back too.

Not seeing anything else I want to buy this year so far though.
 
I haven't included PC gamepass here

Games (£231.94)
- Black Myth Wukong £39.99
- Space Marine II £39.99
- Helldivers 2 £26.99
- Mass Effect Master Collection £4.99
- Doom The Dark Ages Premium Edition £71.49
- Metal Gear Solid Delta Digital Deluxe £48.49

Hardware (£1798)
- 9800X3D £470
- X870E Motherboard £440
- 64GB DDR4 RAM £181
- Fractal Torrent £180
- RTX 4080 £783

Total: £2029.94
 
About 80€ on Steam, about 120€ for PS Plus, and about 100€ for Final Fantasy 1-9 on PSN. Oh and I bought a Vita for 120€. So all together it was probably my cheapest year in gaming, I almost never buy new games, I only play PS Plus games or try to clean up my backlog.

Edit: forgot, I also bought a few physical games, mainly for PS3 but also RDR and FFXII Zodiac Age, so that'd add another 70€ I guess.
 
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The usual Steam Keys/Bundle addiction.

- Cool, 10 games for 15 €, so cheap let's go
- Oh another one, 20 for 25 €, what am i waiting for ?
- Woah, first time seeing this edition for 5 €, i HAVE to buy it.

1 month later :
Total spent : 400 €
Total new games : 150
Total launched : 1
 
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