I think part of the issue is the price of games has gone down, drastically, since the 1980s and 1990s. In the early 1990s, I spent over 100 USD (about 200 USD today) on a single game - granted, it was an import (Final Fantasy 4 wasn’t available in my country until much later). But games were regularly priced highly in the 1990s. Nowadays, I’m rarely spending over 30 USD - much lower than what I (or my parents) spent on games in the 1980s and 1990s, even before factoring inflation.
But I think people buy a lot more games now. Back in the 1980s or 1990s, it was exceedingly rare to own more than 12 games for an active generation (unless you had siblings), people would trade them around. nowadays, people seem to own dozens of games (I buy about a 1-2 dozen a year, most of them on sale and indie titles).
Well, except this guy:
He had 97 of them.
Last edited by Jumpin - on 02 March 2024I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
