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    US Gamers Aren’t Buying Video Games Anymore, New Study Reveals

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    1. floatingostrichs on

      Tell that to the 800,000 people playing battlefield 6 and paid $70-$110 for it

      Also, more people would buy your games if they weren’t so shit because your chasing profit rather than actually making a good game

    2. piratecheese13 on

      This year I played a lot of death stranding, I got that for free on the epic game store and it came out a good number of years ago

      The first game I bought this year was Spider-Man 2, another game that has been out for quite some time

      The game that I’m currently playing is Hades 2, a game that I bought about a year and a half ago that is finally coming out of early access for release about 2 weeks ago.

      Next up, I’m going to play a game I bought for $.99 on the steam autumn sale from circa 2017

      If I find time in my busy busy schedule, I might look at buying Doom Dark Age for the next spring sale, a year after it’s been out.

      We gamers are spoiled for choice while simultaneously being strong armed by Xbox to pay more for less on game pass, as well as sting armed by EA and 2k for their sports monopolies while also trying to push $100 as the new normal for AAA games.

      That being said, battlefield 6 is on track to break records.

    4. Bubba_Gump_Corp on

      It’s almost like the economy sucks and gamers are leaning into existing libraries. Also did they poll mobile “gamers” for this?

    5. ceNco21 on

      I assume it’s because people are putting hundreds of hours into the major titles which are only released every 2-3 years.

      I have PlayStation Plus, but usually default to replaying old favorites (The Last of Us, God of War, GTA V, RDR2) than play a lesser new game.

    7. glitterandnails on

      Games now are made to hook gamers for hundreds of hours. Alas…

      Maybe they know little about Steam sale or those other super cheap sales on console game stores where you can get many titles for less than $10 or $20?

      Consumers lack enough disposable income to be buying $60+ titles. Also, this era is nothing like the 2010s for gaming so far, to me at least.

    8. DaddyGrendel on

      Do they count licensing of the game? Steam games aren’t technically bought/owned. You’re just renting the game indefinitely, until one day for some reason, it’s no longer yours.

      Even on consoles most games, unless you actually can play the game in a solo mode without connecting to a server, then you don’t own those either.

      Going a bit off topic, but unfortunately whatever we buy isn’t owned anymore and it stings.

    10. baltimore-aureole on

      this is unexpected, considering the boom in legalized marijuana sales. next someone will be telling us that oreo and doritos sales have tanked too.

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