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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:

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