Console Market not contracting, becoming more focused

[SvennoJ]

Intrinsic said:

SvennoJ said:

I'm curious to see where this goes. For now the only effect it has had on me is that I spend a lot less on games. The HDD is full anyway, I'm kinda done with buying unfinished games at launch and my backlog is looking just as good if not better than new games coming out. NMS, GT Sport, Zelda and perhaps Horizon are the only purchases I have in mind for the next 6 months. Not woth buying a Neo or NX for. A big difference to spending well over $1000 on games yearly until a couple years ago. Perhaps I've finally fallen out of the target age demographic.

I too don't buy nearly as much games as I used to buy. But I feel that's just cause I have fsr less time on my hands than I sued to have so when I do game it has to be something that's extremely worth my time. In any given year not more than 6-8 games seem to make that cut. 

Just when I thought nothing interesting was coming anymore for me I happened on Abzu and Bound in the PS store, Play 2016 promotion. Pre-ordered them, Abzu is out tomorrow, Bound on the 16th. They look like games I can complete and pretty unique and relaxing. Although I expect there will be the usual crowd arguing they're not games lol.

Bound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE37l6RvF-c


Abzu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2G54w8H4oM


Modern gaming isn't all that bad after all, something for everyone.
At $16 (CAD) I give in to digital downloads. If it's good I'll buy the physical release later if it comes out. KSP at $40 can stay in the ps store though. Funny, Steam hiked the price up to $44 CAD (was on sale for $27 for a long time) I still don't think it's worth more than $20 after playing the demo.