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I was doing some quick workings out earlier and in the last 4 or so years I have spent nearly £2700 on video gaming.
This includes;
My ps3
my PC
my psp
a screen for ps3 and PC to run off
and all the games for the above


I knew I had spent a lot, but geeez not this much.
so Dakka how much have you spent in the past few years on video games?

And where the hell did i get all this money from!

At least $400+, although that doesn't come near to you. This includes xbox, xbox games, computer games, etc.

Interesting question.
All in, that includes everything ranging from monthly subs, to new keyboards, to a new PC, I'd say around 3 grand.

Don't want to know, ever.

Around £400 in games, £700 in pc's and £300 in gaming cons probably.

Last four years.

I'm with Soladrin. Had three gaming PC's in that time, Aura and I subbed to WoW for that entire period, got Collectors editions, and such, brought vanity pets. Plus had Warhammer MMO Collectors editions.

Also my xbox collection went from about twelve games to nearly fifty, plus various accessories. Plus two Xbox 360's, (getting a third in March - not mad mind, had a RRoD about three years ago, got a cheap console 360 to tie me over, upgraded to a new 120GB Kinect Xbox, giving the console one to my boys. The third one will be the R2 D2 one, and the boys will get my 120Gb) a wii, various games for the Wii, DS and games for it. Oh and a 40" HD TV that was mainly purchased because the 360 games would look their best.

Its a lot.

Maybe $100 in games.

Thank you, Steam.

I may write out the list of stuff.
If I included my ps2 and games, well it would take me forever as I could probably stack the cases from floor to ceiling.

I buy my games off steam for 75% off atleast

Thank you steam that i can get my game for $2-$5 and my whole library costs less than 1 Land Raider!

Wow, yeah, upwards of 10k USD in the last 4 years.

I have a top of the line desktop with 3 monitors, one of which is a 42"TV, and the other 2 are 23" HD widescreens. (~4,000 USD)

A top of the line laptop with a secondary monitor that is my old 32" TV. (The TV is old, so ~2,000 USD)

A crappy laptop that I bought exclusively so I could confine intrusive clients to my other 2 CPUs. (~600 USD)

The 42" is also hooked to my PS3 and 360, both of which I bought new copies of a couple years ago. (~600 USD)

I have no idea how much I've spent on games in the same period.

At least 1,700 on my current PC [built in december]

Games, I don't know.

Warhammer? close to 6k by now.

Hm....
My PC get upgraded with everything except new motherboard. It cost me around 300 - 350 EUR.

As for games, DoW II with all expansions and Space Marine : 120 EUR. The rest 100 games I play over the year I download via torrent

Brother Coa wrote:Hm....
My PC get upgraded with everything except new motherboard. It cost me around 300 - 350 EUR.

As for games, DoW II with all expansions and Space Marine : 120 EUR. The rest 100 games I play over the year I download via torrent

Piracy is heresy, Space Marines you look up to so much will not condone such actions....

Maybe in the western world. Here it is a good thing for even our Government to save up some money

I'm not really sure and don't really want to know...

But at least my steam library is probably under $150.

The problem with including the cost of my PC is that I don't just game on it... I do work and homework on it as well.

More money then I care to figure out.

I think it's fair to average the costs across years. The most expensive hardware purchases are very occasional. I think I probably average around 600$ per year

Coolyo294 wrote:More money then I care to figure out.

SO TRUE!!!

Rented Tritium wrote:I think it's fair to average the costs across years. The most expensive hardware purchases are very occasional. I think I probably average around 600$ per year

I probably average a third of that barring console purchases. More since Steam came up with its cheap sales.

Probably around 5,000 USD. I've been at this for as long as I can remember, but I generally don't buy a game at full price unless I play on dumping a serious amount of hours into it. Everything else I wait for Steam sales.

Oh, and it also cost me the ability to socialize and the last vestiges of my sanity. So there's that.

Maybe $100-200 a year(if even that much). I rarely buy games and when I do, I tend to play them for months.

It's pretty easy to keep it cheap, since I don't care about what Modern Battlefield or whatever sequel comes out every month.

$3500 or so in 360 games
$300 for the 360
$450 or so on Wii + games
$3000ish on computer upgrades over time and another $1000 or so in games

I have no idea on Xbox, PS2, PS1, GameCube, SNES, etc. I would guess in the $2-3000 range.

So, total: probably about $10,000-12,000.

Joys of being a gamer for my entire life.

And Mel, you've gotta include the PC, or at least the difference from a bare-bones to whatever it is you have. Yeah, I could have spent $500 to get a computer that I could do homework on when I was in school, or I could (and did) spend more than that and game on it.

What has gaming cost me? Quite simply, gaming has cost me the love of my children. You see, I was too busy playing World of Warcraft to father any children, so...

A lot. My other hobby is video game collecting so I spend a lot on buying games, consoles and other video game related stuff.

PS3 bundle: $299
PS3 games inc trade ins and stuff, $200

Computer: $600 ish
Steam Games: $100 or less
World of Warcraft subscriptions for 1.5 years

Total: $1500 and less.


Warhammer:

Paint and accessories: $200 ( paints, medium, pigment, brushes, primer, varnish, flocks, glue , clamp )
Conversion accessories: $40 ( plasti card . tube. etc etc )

Warhammer Fantasy: 10 factions , average of $300 , $3000

Warhammer 40K: 13 armies, average of $300, $3900

Forge World: $ 600 atleast.

Total of $7470 thats on a lenient side, who on earth can come up with a $300 CANADIAN army.... so probably $10,000


So personally.... i find video games cheaper....

I'd say pushing on £300 + for games, and £1400 give or take a hundred for repairs and new parts in the past for the PC's sooo.... yeah quite a lot really.

Laptop - Birthday Present
Ds Lite - Christmas Presenet
360 - Brothers
Games:
blood bowl (DS) ~ £20
GH on tour (DS) £10
Pkmn White (DS) £30
Fifa 12 (360) £40
Skyrim (360) Christmas Present

So over about 3 years thats about £100; thanks GW.

My social life.

Few hundred last year. Saved quite a bit thanks to the coupons and credits from amazon and kmart. Selling DLC codes on ebay also fetches quite a bit of extra cash.