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A recent report* indicates that North American gamers spend an average
of $325 / year on the hobby. Western Europeans spend about $125 USD
per year. Eastern gamers are a third of that, at about $51.60 per
year. Latin America is half of that again.

Other interesting factoids: on PCs (in North America), game sales
account for ~49% of revenue. MTX is ~38% and DLC is ~12%. On consoles,
it's 52% for games, 24% for MTX, 4% on DLC, and 21% on subscriptions.
(Mobile is 1% spent on buying games, 99% on MTX. Mobile sucks).


Also, Australia / New Zealand has the highest usage of crypto for
buying stuff. What's up with that?

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My spending levels are closer to North American standards. I mean, my HumbleChoice addiction alone bumps me past European levels, and I
probably at least double that amount with various side-purchases on
Steam. So, surprising nobody, I've busted the curve again. But I'm
also older, and older folk are spending more than younger on games
these days. (Of course, that's because older folk have more money than youngsters... but we used to spend it on other stuff. Video games are
no longer the domain of the youth. ;-). But spending levels are
declining worldwide due to economic pressures.


So, are you an average spender for your area?





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On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:29:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

A recent report* indicates that North American gamers spend an average
of $325 / year on the hobby. Western Europeans spend about $125 USD
per year. Eastern gamers are a third of that, at about $51.60 per
year. Latin America is half of that again.

Other interesting factoids: on PCs (in North America), game sales
account for ~49% of revenue. MTX is ~38% and DLC is ~12%. On consoles,
it's 52% for games, 24% for MTX, 4% on DLC, and 21% on subscriptions.
(Mobile is 1% spent on buying games, 99% on MTX. Mobile sucks).

Also, Australia / New Zealand has the highest usage of crypto for
buying stuff. What's up with that?

-

My spending levels are closer to North American standards. I mean, my >HumbleChoice addiction alone bumps me past European levels, and I
probably at least double that amount with various side-purchases on
Steam. So, surprising nobody, I've busted the curve again. But I'm
also older, and older folk are spending more than younger on games
these days. (Of course, that's because older folk have more money than >youngsters... but we used to spend it on other stuff. Video games are
no longer the domain of the youth. ;-). But spending levels are
declining worldwide due to economic pressures.

So, are you an average spender for your area?

Pretty much. I think they might have included graphics card expenses
though, given that you can drop as much as $2.5k on one now.
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On 8/12/2025 8:29 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

A recent report* indicates that North American gamers spend an average
of $325 / year on the hobby. Western Europeans spend about $125 USD
per year. Eastern gamers are a third of that, at about $51.60 per
year. Latin America is half of that again.

Other interesting factoids: on PCs (in North America), game sales
account for ~49% of revenue. MTX is ~38% and DLC is ~12%. On consoles,
it's 52% for games, 24% for MTX, 4% on DLC, and 21% on subscriptions.
(Mobile is 1% spent on buying games, 99% on MTX. Mobile sucks).

Also, Australia / New Zealand has the highest usage of crypto for
buying stuff. What's up with that?

-

My spending levels are closer to North American standards. I mean, my HumbleChoice addiction alone bumps me past European levels, and I
probably at least double that amount with various side-purchases on
Steam. So, surprising nobody, I've busted the curve again. But I'm
also older, and older folk are spending more than younger on games
these days. (Of course, that's because older folk have more money than youngsters... but we used to spend it on other stuff. Video games are
no longer the domain of the youth. ;-). But spending levels are
declining worldwide due to economic pressures.

So, are you an average spender for your area?

$325 a year? Well more than that if you count the last computer upgrade
over the time I've had it. I tend to buy toward middle of the pack price/performance maximization as long as it can play the games I want
to play, and usually only upgrade for games I really want to play (ER
was the last. so overall it probably dips closer to or even below that.
I'm not sure how much I actually spend on games, but it might be around $150-$200, so counting that I might be higher than the yearly average.
I don't remember buying an awful lot this year, but I did buy
Nightreign, that's only $40. I spent a little bit on the summer sales.
All the free games help too.

My son's way over that though over the last year. Bought a PS5, and a
new computer (I did help out a little on that for christmas/birthday,
but the most of the money came from grandparents.) He's never really
bought anything before besides a handful of games and a probably $20-50
in Robux.
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:47:58 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

So, are you an average spender for your area?

$325 a year? Well more than that if you count the last computer upgrade >over the time I've had it. I tend to buy toward middle of the pack >price/performance maximization as long as it can play the games I want
to play, and usually only upgrade for games I really want to play (ER
was the last. so overall it probably dips closer to or even below that.
I'm not sure how much I actually spend on games, but it might be around >$150-$200, so counting that I might be higher than the yearly average.
I don't remember buying an awful lot this year, but I did buy
Nightreign, that's only $40. I spent a little bit on the summer sales.
All the free games help too.

My son's way over that though over the last year. Bought a PS5, and a
new computer (I did help out a little on that for christmas/birthday,
but the most of the money came from grandparents.) He's never really
bought anything before besides a handful of games and a probably $20-50
in Robux.

The report seems to only be counting purchases made on software, not
hardware. Especially on PC, it's hard to differentiate hardware costs.
Sure, for things like a joystick it's obviously game-related, but GPU
or hard-drives (or whole PCs)? Those aren't solely gaming related, in
most cases.

So the $325 US is most likely for the games (or associated
DLC/MTX/virtual currencies/etc.) only, and not for the hardware on
which its played.




Anyway, if you're spending so much on hardware, you're not dumpster
diving enough ;-) ;-)



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$0. :P


Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

A recent report* indicates that North American gamers spend an average
of $325 / year on the hobby. Western Europeans spend about $125 USD
per year. Eastern gamers are a third of that, at about $51.60 per
year. Latin America is half of that again.

Other interesting factoids: on PCs (in North America), game sales
account for ~49% of revenue. MTX is ~38% and DLC is ~12%. On consoles,
it's 52% for games, 24% for MTX, 4% on DLC, and 21% on subscriptions.
(Mobile is 1% spent on buying games, 99% on MTX. Mobile sucks).

Also, Australia / New Zealand has the highest usage of crypto for
buying stuff. What's up with that?

-

My spending levels are closer to North American standards. I mean, my HumbleChoice addiction alone bumps me past European levels, and I
probably at least double that amount with various side-purchases on
Steam. So, surprising nobody, I've busted the curve again. But I'm
also older, and older folk are spending more than younger on games
these days. (Of course, that's because older folk have more money than youngsters... but we used to spend it on other stuff. Video games are
no longer the domain of the youth. ;-). But spending levels are
declining worldwide due to economic pressures.

So, are you an average spender for your area?

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A recent report* indicates that North American gamers spend an average
of $325 / year

Discounted Gamepass sub, one or two steam sale icons per month, a gpu purchase every few years, maybe two higher price games per year, yeah its at least $200/yr

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