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sth88 on 03 September 2013
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pezus said:
sth88 said:

5 games a year at $60 each is $300 a year.  Maybe for you that's not a lot of money, but for me, working a couple low-end jobs and not making a whole lot of dough, that's plenty.  Most years I only spend about $300-$350 on gaming (including Xbox Live Gold).

In 2014, though, it's going to be more like $800.  'Cause, ya know, hardware costs money too.  I'm not really sure I'm going to be able to afford $300 worth of games when I'm spending so much on hardware.

So yes, bro, I do game.  I game on a budget.  It's just a smaller budget than yours.

#dealwithit

You know that you can buy games for less than $60, right? Buy a bundle with a game and then wait for the prices to drop on some older titles. Getting a gaming PC would be an even better investment, since you can literally buy thousands of games for a few dollars each every year


I'm typically satisfied with just a handful of games every year, a few retail-size and a few XBLA-size.  If there's an X1 bundle out sometime next year with a game that I want (like Witcher 3 or Destiny), I'll jump right on it, but I'm not likely to wait around for major games to drop in price.  There are always new games coming out that I am going to want, so I can't afford to have a backlog.

 

As for PC gaming, I'm just not interested.  I don't want to spend time or money figuring out how to build a suitable rig, especially when I know I want a console anyway.  PC doesn't have much in the way of exclusives I want, anyway.  If I'm going to get a second platform later in this coming generation, It'll most likely be a PS4.