Well after doing my taxes I was looking at what pegged at my wallet the most. The stealer was games...my god $6,000 ?!! X.X

I kept trying to calculate and remember what I bought.

A big contributer was my PC hardware which cost about $2,000 and still isn't finished. Psn pegged on about 300 bucks, special edition games ranging from 70 - 100 bucks, and even regular games costing $60 and my uncontrolable urge to buy a used ps2 game from gamestop every time I enter it. (just today i picked up indigo prophecy, last week the onimusha trilogy, and the week before eve of extinction)

I'm just amazed how much i spent on the stuff.....anyone else close to the same boat? or how much did you rouphly spend.

EDIT:

Well some of you have been asking for a list of how I came up with 6,000. When i first did it I was looking at my Debit card transactions with a fat list of gamestop, blockbuster, and amazon. those could only mean video games. Well to be sure I put together a list of all the games and gaming accesories I bought this year. some I looked up receipts others were pretty easy to remember, and some still had the price tag on them :PI know im missing some of my ps2 games i bough last year though.

At the end we add an 8% California sales tax.

40 - Socom
23 - Burnout Paradise
40 - Warhawk
10 - Broken Mirror
10- Fallen Star
10 - Omega Dawn
90 - Soul Calibur 4 Special Edition
10.50 - SC4 DLC
120 - Ps3 500 gig hard drive
60 - Dual Shock 3
90 - GTA IV Special edition
25 - GTA IV Strategy Guide
10 - Pixel Junk Eden
30 - Shivering Isles
60 - Silent Hill: Homecoming
15 - True Crime 1 & 2
22 - ZOE 1 & 2
75 - PS Eye + Eye of Judgement
30 - Eye of judgement Pack 2 & 3
30 - Eye of Judgement booster card packs
10 - Pain
20 - Pain DLC
60 - Valkyria Chronicles
80 - Resitance 2 Special Edition
60 - Dynasty Warriors 6
40 - Orochi Warriors
15 - .Hack//Mutation
90 - Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition
15 - Gene Expansion +
10 - Meme Expansion
300 - Motherboard
80 - Heat Sync
400 - Monitor
330 - CPU
350 - GPU
350 - PSU
120 - Blu-Ray Drive
100 - Vista OEM
10 - Silver Compound
120 - Case
60 - RAM
30 - Persona 3: FES
10 - Shadow of the Collusus
15 - God of War 2
60 - Little Big Planet
9 - LBP DLC
190 - Rockband 2
72 - Rockband DLC
20 - Xenosaga 3
25 - Trapt
20 - Guild Wars: Eye of the North
20 - Valhalla Knights
20 - Brave Story
10 - Raiden 3
12 - Arc the Lad: End of Darkness
15 - Darkstalkers Chronicles
6 - Death by Degrees
40 - Disgea: Afternoon of Darkness
20 - Dreamfall: the longest journey
30 - FFXI: Wings of the Goddess
168 - FFXI year subscription
20 - Phantasy Star Universe
20 - PSU: Ambition of the Illumines
60 - PSU 6 month subscription
2 - Hidden Invasion
30 - Hitman Trilogy
40 - Jeanne De’Arc
15 - Just Cause
15 - Resident Evil: Outbreak 2
30 - Rogue Galaxy
40 - Spore
20 - Valkyrie Profile 2: Slimeria
25 - Qore Annual Subscription
30 - Game Informer subscription
18 - 3 Edge magazines (could be more)
12 - 2 Playstation Magazines (could be more)
40 - Blu-tooth Headset (for ps3 online)
40 - FFXII Galbranth Figure
60 - KOF/Fatal Fury Mai Figure
60 - FFVII Shadow Lurker Figure
20 - Fallout 3 Strategy Guide
10 - Extended Usb ps3 Wire
20 - MGS: Portable Ops
25 - MGS: Portable Ops +
30 - GOW: Chains of Olympus
40 - FFVII: Crises Core
25 - Killzone Liberation
36 - Skype PSP 1 Year
30 - Full Metal Alchemist 2 (game)
170 - 1 TB hard drive (almost forgot that)

5190.50 - Total
X .08
415.24 - Sales Tax

5190.50
+ 415.24
5605.74 - Grand Total

I spent rouphly $5600 USD on games....

Last year I spent over 2000 $ on gaming alone... and take into consideration that I havent bought a single game since the beginning of October... this year it will probably be far less, depending what console I will choose :|

Yeah im trying to cut back, but....Killzone 2....Resident Evil 5....Mag, and build the rest of my computer.

That makes all of us casuals in comparison i guess

Under 500$ for me, aussie money

I wouldn't say casuals i would just say I went to far and wasn't holding myself back...

that's too much , that's insane
I spent less than that on living lol

I spent under $400.

This year might be closer to $600. maybe.

I wish my family had money. :-/ I am the only one in my house that has a job! ugh!

The thing with me is I'm a college student living with my parents and outside of school and work it's all I do, so i pretty much blew all my money on games. Not the brightest of ideas, but i could technically do it without too much harm done.

You guys should do what we do on the forum I mod at. Have a thread with how much you have spent during the year. Update it every time you buy something. I get really up there

Honestly, that's getting into addiction territory. Even allowing for a $2000 PC purchase (and even that's not a great buy, since you can put together a really good PC for under $1000), that's still $4000 on gaming. That works out to something like 65+ games at $60 each! Seriously, how many hours a week are you spending on gaming?

Why not buy some games used? Or try Gamefly? There are tons of ways to acquire games without spending an arm and a leg.