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Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests
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Also competition, and I'm not actually talking about indie games, although that's helping. Competition with older games. Why in the world would someone pay $80 for a mediocre new game when they could replay a classic hit that they haven't played in few years? When was the last time you played the witcher 3, or the mass effect trilogy? Would you rather replay one of those, or pay $80 for the new assassin's creed?
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Also competition, and I'm not actually talking about indie games, although that's helping. Competition with older games. Why in the world would someone pay $80 for a mediocre new game when they could replay a classic hit that they haven't played in few years? When was the last time you played the witcher 3, or the mass effect trilogy? Would you rather replay one of those, or pay $80 for the new assassin's creed?Especially when most games that've come out this year run like shit, and a new graphics card is nearly a rent payment
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I'm just done with Capitalism in general. I got 1000 games, 200 of which are GOG offline installers. Those are burned onto M-Disc storage for the apocalypse. Cancelled all TV streaming, no buying games or books even. Nothing but food and bills now as I wait for it all to collapse.>M-Disc woah woah woah, Mr. Namedrop. What is this, now? 100GB RW Blu-rays? $57 for a pack of 6? $57 for 600GB $100 for a 4TB WD Red >the hard drive won't last as long That implies it's powered. Would it last as long as cold storage? ...this is so offtopic, but I must know.
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*Looks at:* *1. AAA games costing 100€+ between base game and season pass. 2. Online services on consoles constantly raising prices 3. Consoles that, over the time cost more instead of less. 4. Wages frozen in time for years 5. Rest of unrelated to videogames stuff but that drain people's wages.* I WONDER WHY YOUNG PEOPLE SPEND LESS IN VIDEOGAMES...Free games like fortnite
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>M-Disc woah woah woah, Mr. Namedrop. What is this, now? 100GB RW Blu-rays? $57 for a pack of 6? $57 for 600GB $100 for a 4TB WD Red >the hard drive won't last as long That implies it's powered. Would it last as long as cold storage? ...this is so offtopic, but I must know.
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I'm sure it has nothing to do with shitty half baked $70 gamesAs a rule, I never buy games on release. From everything I hear, you pay twice the price to get an unfinished game in most cases. I put them on my wishlist, keep an eye on the reviews and depending on those I decide how much of a discount it will require for me to actually buy the game. Usually I end up getting them at least a year later and/or at least at 50% off.
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Make a timeline comparing the rising cost of games, rising unemployment, addition of tariffs on exports from Japan and this. Notice a pattern?Tariffs would likely have very tiny influence on this statistic since most video game spending nowadays is digital, and digital products are protected from tariffs since tariffs are only attached to physical goods.
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As a rule, I never buy games on release. From everything I hear, you pay twice the price to get an unfinished game in most cases. I put them on my wishlist, keep an eye on the reviews and depending on those I decide how much of a discount it will require for me to actually buy the game. Usually I end up getting them at least a year later and/or at least at 50% off.
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>M-Disc woah woah woah, Mr. Namedrop. What is this, now? 100GB RW Blu-rays? $57 for a pack of 6? $57 for 600GB $100 for a 4TB WD Red >the hard drive won't last as long That implies it's powered. Would it last as long as cold storage? ...this is so offtopic, but I must know.
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*Looks at:* *1. AAA games costing 100€+ between base game and season pass. 2. Online services on consoles constantly raising prices 3. Consoles that, over the time cost more instead of less. 4. Wages frozen in time for years 5. Rest of unrelated to videogames stuff but that drain people's wages.* I WONDER WHY YOUNG PEOPLE SPEND LESS IN VIDEOGAMES...
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This post did not contain any content.Games are getting more expensive. Console prices are going nuts; the Playstation 2 launched at $299 USD. Wages have been stagnant longer than I've been alive. More and more people are struggling to make ends meet let alone buy luxuries like video games, particularly the young because of our kleptogeriocracy. Younger folks often use video games as a hangout spot, because young folks hanging out together in public is a felony now. So they play the same few games for tens of thousands of hours. Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, I think the crowd that spend their adolescences in Garrysmod are in the attrition phase. You've already got a copy of these games, why buy another? A lot of studios are being closed because business major's gonna business. Fuck brand recognition or loyalty, fuck development talent, fuck community building, fuck long-term strategy, we can realize a gain right now by sowing half the planet with salt, so that's what we're going to do. So what is there for people to buy? That noise you heard last week was Xbox's death rattle. One out of the three mainstream home console platforms is an outright stupid idea to buy now.
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>M-Disc woah woah woah, Mr. Namedrop. What is this, now? 100GB RW Blu-rays? $57 for a pack of 6? $57 for 600GB $100 for a 4TB WD Red >the hard drive won't last as long That implies it's powered. Would it last as long as cold storage? ...this is so offtopic, but I must know.Hard drives are affected by [bit rot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation) even when not in use. A disk check every six months would help, but is not a guarantee against data corruption or loss. M-DISC physically etches the data into the disc, and should last around a lifetime to a thousand years, depending on who you believe. The catch would be being able to read it in the distant future (in other words, if you're using M-DISC as a backup solution, you should also have a backup disc drive).
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Ugh first millennials aren't buying homes fast enough now it's this darn gen Z and not buying video games and 12 different streaming platforms. Such spoiled generations
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Games are getting more expensive. Console prices are going nuts; the Playstation 2 launched at $299 USD. Wages have been stagnant longer than I've been alive. More and more people are struggling to make ends meet let alone buy luxuries like video games, particularly the young because of our kleptogeriocracy. Younger folks often use video games as a hangout spot, because young folks hanging out together in public is a felony now. So they play the same few games for tens of thousands of hours. Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, I think the crowd that spend their adolescences in Garrysmod are in the attrition phase. You've already got a copy of these games, why buy another? A lot of studios are being closed because business major's gonna business. Fuck brand recognition or loyalty, fuck development talent, fuck community building, fuck long-term strategy, we can realize a gain right now by sowing half the planet with salt, so that's what we're going to do. So what is there for people to buy? That noise you heard last week was Xbox's death rattle. One out of the three mainstream home console platforms is an outright stupid idea to buy now.
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I’m pushing 40 so I’m not young but I’ve actually been buying more games lately thanks to being patient and not rushing out to buy AAA games along with switching from console to PC, gotta love Steam sales. I just bought two games I’ve been wanting to play for $30.I'm a bit younger, though not a lot. I all but stopped buying games because Epic and Amazon give so many away for free. I've got like 500 free games that I haven't even installed once. The only time I'd actually pay for a game is if it's a special one I want, and they've gotten few and far between.
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> the Playstation 2 launched at $299 USD. Not disagreeing with you, but with inflation that's about $558 as of this comment.Inflation, yeah. The thing that has absolutely never been applied to wages?
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Inflation, yeah. The thing that has absolutely never been applied to wages?
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I hear about these cases of inflation, like the fact a pack of gum cost 15 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, or immediately after WWII the German...reichmarke or whatever they called it, was so worthless it took a wheelbarrow full to buy a loaf of bread. Where do I get a wheelbarrow full of uselessly inflated USD? *It's not actually inflation, is it?*
