Seriously, besides Gears 3, Skyrim, and maybe Zelda, I'm going on a year long gaming purchase hiatus.. And as far as the 3DS, I'm in no rush to get that.

For one, I have little money to even spend, and even if I did, there are few games coming out this year that I even would want. Plus, I have a HUGE backlog of games I still gotta tackle; Epic Mickey, DQXI, Red Steel 2, Sin and Punishment, Assassin's Creed 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Monster Hunter Tri.. the list goes on. More than enough to keep me occupied for quite awhile. I dunno, I just feel like I gotta tone down the reckless spending on games, which is not cheap.. I usually end up selling many of them back anyway.

Anyone else gonna stop buying games or at least tone down the purchases for awhlie for whatever reason, either because of a lackluster year of gaming/lack of funds, or both?

2011 seems to me as the most dynamic gaming year compared to last couple of years. So the content is not a problem at all. There are lot of games i want to play which are coming this year but i am going to wait for price drop and grab them on sale. My backlog is getting ever so massive too. This summer i starting to feel like it was school homework :P. So i went a bit hardcore and beat some of the games and traded them. Now i just grab an odd game on sale. There are two games i think i am getting for sure this year. Uncharted 3, Journey and i guess Red Dead Redemption GOTY or just the regular one on sale :)

Yeah dude I'm definitely taking it easy on purchases as of late, and into the future. There's only 3 games I'll buy for sure this year (Resistance 3, Skyrim and Uncharted 3). Besides those 3 games I'm going to keep a tight seal on my wallet. 

I'm on the same boat. Skyrim, portal 2, dota 2, and if it comes out, diablo 3, will be my only must buys. I don't even have the time to beat all the games i got during the holidays and its not like I got too many. Although I have preordered a 3ds, it will either be sold on ebay or become a gift to my cousin depending on ebay cost.

I think I'm going to be doing the exact opposite, normally I wait for games to come down to atleast 35 before I buy them sometimes even more but with so many games coming out this year, (dark souls, Infamous 2, Last guardian, Batman Arkum city, portal 2, twisted metal, malicious ect.) I think I might be buying more games at full price then ever before

Man your not actually stopping purchasing games your just purchasing the three best ones you know of. I bet after E3 2011 your going to purchase another 2 or 3 currently unnannounced games. Your title is misleading as you are still going to buy games just not as many as you have in the past.

As for me, I have Duke Nukem , Pokemon Black and White and Zelda which I will be purchasing for sure. But I know come E3 their will be 4 or 5 new games I will want to buy. Am I going to buy as many as I have in the past like you aren't, possibly. But just like you I will still be buying several titles.

Is anyone actuall going to forgo buying any games this year? I doubt it!

Maybeee, if they didn't release soo many games all at once, we might have a chance of actually living without the stress of playing another game. But that's just me. I guess they're anticipating 2012 or something by launching everything they got all at once. 

Without The Last Guardian that is gaming suicide.

I have money issues. Yet, this might be the year in which I spend morey money on games (excluding systems). There are so many games I truly desire coming out that there's no other way!!

And let us hope E3 doesn't surprises us with more.

i am the opposite and rampting up the buying to have 2011 my biggest year i can because i need to play more games