I had to stop buying 40-million-dollar houses because my milk went up a dollar and a half.

No, I dont need a car because I work 5 minutes walking from home.

Also I barely need to buy food, as my job provides it, I also do not pay bills such as gas and electricity as my work pays. I do not see anything different, besides more expensive games this gen, which means I wait longer for sales and second hand market.

I generally double dip when I lost access for a game, either because the physical media degraded or because the hardware is no longer able to play them but this take a while to happen, something like once in 10 years or even more. I've bought many PS/PS2 titles on Switch/PS4 because of that

Other than that I can double dip when definitive editions came out. Something like Pokemon Platinum vs Pokemon D/P.


With that in in mind prices are scaling up fast in Brazil. Food is costing around 40% more a month than 3 years ago. Gas is up over 60%, paid services are all increasing as well, electricity, water. Eletronic prices went crazy, laptops that used to be 3000 BRL are now costing over 5000. Seems like we've regressed to the 90s levels of purchasing power in just 4 years. Taxes still crazy high, next year people who have 1.5x times minimum wages will start to have their paychecks taxed

I've been more conscious with my gaming purchases because I'm feeling every month I'm having less and less money left to spend

I don't buy multiple copies of the same game. But I often buy games that I will never take time to play.
Interesting concepts and series that I have liked in the past. I like games and wish for the gaming industry to thrive. My sad truth is rather that I enjoy playing older games that I already finished a couple of times more than the new ones.
i could stop spending money on games tomorrow and still have enough to play for a lifetime.

What's the point in buying the exact same game for multiple consoles?

I played ESO with my Xbox peeps on Xbox.

I played ESO with my Playstation peeps on Playstation.

I've also done the same for many other games, Minecraft, Diablo, COD's, mostly multi-players. But there have been instances where I purchased a game at launch on one system and played it through, then have purchased the same game on another console that is the GOTY edition years later with all the extras, and I play it again and also get to re-earn all the trophies or achievements.

I double dipped huge on the WiiU with Virtual console games but have really tapered off on game spending this gen even before the economic downturn. Since the PS3 era I have bought many games that I have never played. I still have a bunch of unopened games for the WiiU that I will likely never get around to playing. So I have stopped double dipping but not really because of the economy.

Why would you buy more than one copy of a game you already have?

I'm from Portugal, things are also tough there, but gaming will always be affordable, no one needs to buy the next gen consoles or even current games, people could buy a wii and a ps4 and have more than plenty great games are very cheap prices, especially if you wait for sales. I have ps4 games that cost me like 5 euros or less. In my case I can easily afford games, doesn't mean I will pay 80-90 euros per game, that's just not very smart money management. No one needs to play the games right now, there's always older cheaper games that people haven't played, there is no way of playing all games ever released especially as games have become much bigger in length and content. Also we don't need many games at all, a game like assassins creed will last me a month to finish, and the last ones cost from 5-20euros only. And even after I finish such game I'll take a break and focus on movies and series.

In fact gaming is way more affordable and much better value than going out to party, you might spend way more just to go out to dinner and it lasts you like a couple hours of fun.