Around 800€ last year. And around 350€ only last month... I made a mistake by getting a debit card >.<

Nobody "needs" to cut back on anything. If you have the money, why not spend it on your favorite hobby?

I've already spent $150 this year. Chrono Trigger, Deadly Creatures, House of the Dead

Then there's Little King's Story, Wii Sports resort, Punch OUt, Mad World, The Conduit, Fatal Frame 5

That's about 450 without taxes. Those are the games I know I will buy, and there are surely others that will catch my interest, as well as Nintendo's unannounced games. I don't see how you can spend so much cash on games X]
But good for you. If you can afford all that, have fun!

What? :o Jesus Christ that's insane.
That's why I never buy games in stores but on the internet, why pay full price when you can get it for half or even less. :p

I bought Advanced Wars and Fire Emblem for the GBA last year at 10 bucks a piece. Big spender, I know.

I spend roughly $2000 a year, i'll be spending alot more this year, as alot of good exclusives are released through 09/10.

Hmm i've bought one system (The DS) plus quite a lot of games this year between Wii and DS (betwenn 15-20 i suppose) I think about 500 pounds? Which is too much , im gonna have to restrain myself this year.

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....

It's called Gamefly, rent 95% and buy the ones you know you will play for a while.

wow that is a lot. BUT! Let's see I spent

XBOX360 - $250
Wii games ... about 16 of them.. almost all $20 each (I'll estimate $300 total -for 14-)
$20 Nintendo Points
$40 Microsoft Points
$57 XBOX Live Subscription
Bioshock $40
Guitar Hero III and Wii Fit (so minus two Wii games aforementioned) 90 bones each
..... no subscription fees for MMOs thats good...
PC Games about $25 Total
a DS game for $15
Sudeki, PGR2, DoA3, PD0, Prey, PGR3, DOAXtreme2,XIII, Halo $4 each
Timeshift (2-disc), Tenchu Z $30
Blue Dragon $20
Fable II Limited Edition; MKvsDC Kollector's Edition $70
RED Controller $57
..oh man I hope my wife doesn't see this ..
Assassin's Creed, battery pack $10
....and so aprox$1,260 ... at least it isnt 6,000 LOL, thats just a little more than 100 a month, not too bad, not great either. hmmm.
add $65 nephew christmas + 6.99 EGM + $20 GameCrazy/EBGames renewal

yeah somewhere around $1,350 would probably be best estimate... wow