Young Americans Are Spending A Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year

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• psvrh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Young Americans Are Spending A Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year

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• oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah no shit AAA games are $80 going forward, games from the past few years are $70 if AAA. $60 was the sweet spot for AAA games but then the greedy companies began littering paid games with macro transactions.

  Indie is the way forward for gaming, the prices are actually fair and the devs are willing to support them far past when AAA companies will. That and modding for games has only been getting better and better. Last year we basically got a brand new Fallout game from modders, meanwhile Bugthesda can barely wipe their own ass.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  Interesting, would be nice if they showed what the average increase in prices was on this graph too, I bet there could be a correlation…

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  • megopie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Almost like there’s some kind of deeper generational economic divide, almost like all the people who own all the stock are retiring and starting to live off investments, and thus companies are pressured to payout ether in buy backs or dividends, so prices are rising while quality and pay falls, and only those benefiting from the record profitability can afford the new prices.

    Sort of like the allocation of resources and labor are being redistributed to a retiring and wealthy leisure class and the burden to support that is falling on the younger generation.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Presumably the spending is adjusted dollar amount.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Totally have nothing to do with game started selling for $70. Must be their own fault for not spending on game.

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  • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tomb Raider on PS3 was $70. It’s more people don’t have money for entertainment.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      More and more AAA game started to charge $70 today than in PS3 era, and $80 is coming.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  expensive, 60-80$ per game+dlc. and Games are coming out half-assed for the most part.

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• Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean everything is expensive and the price of games are insane

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’re too expensive.

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• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Food and housing is actually more important and, you know, shit is expensive.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are there even any good games coming out this year?

  Further, didn’t the Switch 2 already break sales records? 5.4 million consoles? 1.8 million of them in the US?

  Also, looking at the roster of games that have come out so far this year, it looks pretty barren for genuinely quality games. Maybe people just haven’t bought a lot of the kind of forgettable titles? The only games that seem popular that aren’t remakes or re-releases of previous games are Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince, Split Fiction, Death Stranding 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Elden Ring Nightreign. Of those, only the first four listed score above 90 on Metacritic. Even stuff like Monster Hunter Wilds has been deeply panned.

  I think it’s probably a mixture of high prices, lack of money, Switch 2 sales and waiting on better Switch 2 titles other than just Mario Kart World, as well as a lackluster roster of other quality games.

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Games suck now. Movies too. Culture in decline. We (millennials and gen x) got to see the art form (gaming and at least short form video on youtube and vimeo and stuff) evolve from studios owned by people who were passionate about the craft to the current state of big business making “safe” investments. It’s not that only bad games will ever come out from now on, indie studios exist and some big studios take chances, but there will always be a sea of remakes, remasters, endless sequels, generic safe garbage, etc

    Also data is about 18-24 year old spending. I bet a lot of switch 2 purchases were by people 30+ for their kids

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• Legendsofanus@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  On PC atleast, I hardly find it compelling to spend any money on games since you get a lot of stuff for free from promotions. I have a rule to spend only 1$~ on video games and it has served me pretty well

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