So another year has passed. How much have you spent on gaming this year (for games and/or gaming hardware)?

Here are the similar theads of the last 2 years:

• http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=175377&page=1
• http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=189862&page=1
• http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=195915&page=1

Up to €150 game expenses per month are okay to me, this year I managed to keep it at €100 per month on average:

Even with adding the XBO (and therefore completing my 8th gen collection of handhelds and home consoles), my PC share grew to almost 50% of my game expenses, last year Wii U and PS Vita had bigger pieces of the pie:

• 3DS (4%) = Bravely Default + Majora's Mask 3D
• Android (1%) = Shadowrun Returns, The Inner World, Detective Grimoire, Costume Quest, The Last Express, 80 Days...
• iPad (5%) = Lost Horizon, Civilization Revolution 2, Gold Rush! Anniversary, Her Story, The Peril's of Man, Fire: Ugh's Quest, BioShock, Shadowrun: Dragonfall D.C., Til Morning's Light, Bertram Fiddle, Blackwell 2 + 3, Flockers, Lara Croft GO, Lost Echo, Space Age, The Trace,...
• PS3 (2%) = Ratchet & Clank: Enter the Nexus + Deadlocked, Back to the Future, Sam & Max: Beyond Time & Space, Tales of Monkey Island and 24 PS+ games
• PS4 (13%) = Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, LittleBigPlanet 3, God of War Remastered, Until Dawn, Tearaway Unfolded, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Peggle 2, Costume Quest 2 and 24 PS+ games
• PS Vita (10%; PSP + PS1 classics included) = Steins;Gate, Grim Fandango Remastered, Broken Sword 5, Munch's Oddyssee HD, Sly 2, Scram Kitty DX, Trails in the Sky, Persona 2, Lunar: Silver Star Harmony, Valkyria Chronicles, Daxter, Jak & Daxter: The Last Frontier, MotorStorm: Arctic Edge, Patapon, Y's Seven, Capcom Classic Collection Reloaded, Final Fantasy 8, Suikoden 1 + 2 and 24 PS+ Vita games
• Wii U (8%; Wii + VC included) = Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Bayonetta 2, Xenoblade Chronicles, Donkey Kong Returns, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Mighty Switch Force 1 + 2, Super Mario World, A Link to the Past
• Xbox One (9%) = Halo MCC + ODST, Sunset Overdrive, RARE Replay (including my favorites Banjo Kazooie + Tooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Kameo)
• PC (48%, only 1 retail game) = Grand Theft Auto 5, Far Cry 4: Complete Edition, Life is Strange, Game of Thrones, Tales From the Borderlands, Assassin's Creed Unity, Alien: Isolation + DLCs, The Evil Within + DLCs, Shadow of Mordor, Ori and the Blind Forest, The Talos Principle, Technobabylon, Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 + 2, Watch Dogs, Randal's Monday, Lost Horizon 2, Wasteland 2, Anna's Quest, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Ryse: Son of Rome, Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition, Risen 3, Trine 3, Valkyria Chronicles 1, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Metro 2033 + Last Light Redux, Flockers, Shantae: Risky's Revenge, GTA Trilogy, Undertale...
• Kickstarted (all PC): Shenmue 3, The Mystery of Oak Island, Yooka-Laylee, The Bard's Tale 4, The Journey Down: Chapter 3

*order of each platform by price, so I payed the most on PC for GTA5, followed by Far Cry 4: Complete Edition and so on...

Hardware spendings in 2014: around €1200 (€1400 - profits of a sold-through PS4 and a sold Wii + GTX580)

• €266 for a Wii U Premium + high capacity battery + Wii U Pro controller
• €370 for a PS4 
• €25 for a SteelSeries gaming mouse
• €290 for a GTX 970 graphic card... I sold my 3 year old GTX 580 for €94; remaining costs are €196 
• €199 for a Windows tablet: Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 8, 64 GB, now upgraded to Windows 10 (x86)
• €189 for a Kindle Fire HDX 64GB tablet
• €49 for a Kindle FireTV

Hardware spendings in 2015: €922

• €86 for a PSVita Slim (111 €, but I sold the included 8GB card + Mega Pack 1 for 25 €)   
• €85 for a PSVita 64GB memory card
• €66 for a bigger PS4-HDD (Spinpoint M9T 1.75TB)
• €256 for a Xbox One (€249 + €7 shipping from Austria)
• €429 for a Xperia Z5 Compact

planned Hardware spendings for 2016:

• VR solution (PSVR or Oculus Rift, haven't decided yet)
• 14nm graphic card (Pascal or Greenland)
• Nintendo NX
  

New ps4 pad -£30
The Witcher 3 -£40
Metal gear solid 5 -£40
Danganronpa 2 -£12
Life Is Strange -£15
Disgaea 5 £50 (why was this so much)
Street fighter IV -£20

Total £207

I spent 200000000000000000000000000 Zimbabwean dollars 8)

Wii U: ($=Australian dollars)
Bayonetta 1+2 pack- $60
Captain Toad: $45
The Wonderful 101: $47.50
Super Smash Bros: $80
Earthbound: $13
Earthbound Beginnings: $10.50
SMB 3: $1
Paper Mario: $2.50
DK64: $13
Total: $263.50

3DS:
FE: Fates (All three): 10,000Y
Mario Kart 7: 2,750Y
Phoenix Wright collection: 1,450Y
Phoenix Wright 5: 1,450Y
Super Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: 5,120Y
FE: Awakening: 4,970Y
DLC: 1,150Y
Total: 26,890Y

PS4: -$190
Fallout 4: -$10

I actually made a profit on the PS4 and Fallout 4 as I bought them online for ~390 together, but returned them to the shop with my online docket and they refunded me the full instore ticket price for both, which gave me $200 more, didn't notice until I read the online docket a couple of days later...

So..

$263.50 and 26,980 yen, or ~$530.
Take away the profit on the PS4 and I spent ~$330 in total.

Difficult to say, but love the idea of tracking it.... only haven't done this because sometimes I get regret on how much Ive spent, especially when I need a new car...lol

About 1 600€

Too much :/

If it's your main hobby, you can never spend too much. ;)

I spent $200-300 in 2015. I got about $120-200 in games that were gifts. I try and wait for sales on Amazon for new copies months after release. Doesn't work for most Nintendo published games (considering they usually stay at 50-60) but most third party games are $10-25 new 6 months or so after release.

Physical

Xbox One + Forza Horizon 5 GOTY bundle - 290€
Killer Instinct Combo Breaker Pack - 8€
Alien Isolation - 12€
The Evil Within - gifted (~18€)
Minecraft Xbox One Edition - 8€
Assassin's Creed Unity - gifted (~15€ used)
Destiny - gifted (10€)
Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor GOTY - 18€
Sunset Overdrive - 13.50€
Halo MCC - 17.50€
Far Cry 4 - gifted (~15€ used)
CoD Advanced Warfare - 19€
Gears of War Ultimate (incl. Gears 1-3 and Judgement) - 30€
Dead Rising 3 - 13.50€
GTA V - 16.50€


Digital

Watch Dogs Complete - 13.50€
Wolfenstein New Order - 6€
Wolfenstein The Old Blood - 6€
4 months EA Access - 16€
Thomas Was Alone - 2.30€
QUBE Director's Cut - 2.30€
Shovel Knight - 4.60€
Bridge Constructor - 3€
olliolli - 2.30€
Stealth Inc. 2 - 2.50€
The Swapper - 3.75€
Ori and the Blind Forest - 4.75€
Spy Chameleon - 1.50€
Worms Battlegrounds - 2.25€
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes - 5.25€
Forza Horizon 2 Fast & Furious - 2.20€
King's Quest Episode 1 - 1.50€
Guacamelee STCE + DLC - 2.50€
LA Cops - 2.20€
Schrödinger's Cat - 1.45€
Beatbuddy - 2.90€
Guns, Gore and Cannoli - 2.90€
Halo 3 ODST - 2.30€
Peggle 2 DLC x2 - 1.65€
Three Fourth Home - 1.77€
Zombi - 6€
Slender The Arrival - 1.80€
Life is Strange Episode 1 - 1.20€
Max The Curse of Brotherhood - 0.80€

Total: 552€


There were some crazy deals this year so I'm quite happy.
Gears Ultimate was the most expensive with 30€ but I knew I had to get it this year to get the other Gears games for free. Still haven't received any codes though....