Anyone else halting/slowing down their purchases this year?

[Irritablesquid]

It hasn't added anything to me.
Online was a horrible experience to me and I never enjoyed it.
You might think differently but micro transactions and online updates are of no interest to me.
Some people will enjoy it and thats their right, for me however it was an obvious money grab.
They might do it with RDR2 but they might not.

[DeathBySNUSNUU]

Lol its cool. to be fair I have enjoy PS4 playing Red Dead 2, God of War, and Spider-man but once I was done with those titles ... not much else that interest me.
Honestly its just going back to Nintendo titles that I enjoy. I have been playing D3 some on there, which is cool.
But mainly the RPGs (OCTOPATH TRAVELERS)
I haven't played many nintendo games since Wii either. With that being said, I guess its new, exciting and nostalgic at the same time.
So far I've enjoy BotW, Mario Odyssey, I will be playing the nintendo Bros U duo pack, I have enjoyed Bayonetta and I do plan on buying Dead Cells as well.
There are other RPGs on the nintendo store that look good too. Since Bethesda and Bioware ... ugh have no idea what they doing *face palm* it breaks my heart but... I need my RPG fix somewhere.

[PriestTroit]

How much do those things go for anyway?

[PriestTroit]

Nah. GTA5 has added tons of new content since release at no extra cost. Huge amounts.

[Valkenr]

Nothing's changing, if I want a game, I buy it.

The number of games I want may be decreasing, but that's a matter of personal interest, not some fear of my amazingly cheap entertainment investment getting cheaper or upgrades in the future.

[Matias]

i wouldn't care to plan for next gen. Just buy the games you wanna play

[Musou Tensei]

Well I will certainly buy much less PS4 games as I will only buy PS4 games now if they are exclusive, else I will get either the Swich or PC release, but if I buy less in general really depends on what is coming out, So far JRPG wise there isn't much announced for 2019 so I might buy less games this year. I have no interest the PS5 nor whatever stupid name MS gives their next Xbox.

[MadMummy76]

My purchases purely depend on how many interesting games are released. So It's not up to me to slow them down.

[Animusisters]

I buy when I buy.

[Farmerdave]

I've gotten into the habit of waiting for the "Game of the year" editions. All the dlc and less bugs. Yeah, I'm cheap and don't need to be first.

[xadu]

@PriestTroit
No. You never buy old performance. Game demands are always rising. Always buy on the point of diminishing returns, which is the point where price starts rising not in proportion to the performance, which today is around the Vega 64 (or RX 570, for really low budget)

[Pikachu da Montanha]

Not really... I usualy don't buy games right after release anyway.

[Irritablesquid]

I've become very sceptical of companies over the past few years.
I hope it's not true but I look at GTA5 and am very suspicous, all I can see they did was add first person view which could have been done on last gen consoles. They also added some more animals.

Companies have shown me they can't be trusted.

[PriestTroit]

I was one of the people who appreciated the remasters because I changed over from Xbox. The main ones I got were a bunch of Final Fantasy games, Last of Us, Heavy Rain, Uncharted series. Could be forgetting some. It was great for me. Hope they keep doing that.

[RepentantSky]

It's actually possible we won't see as many remasters in this next generation depending on where sales go. The main reason so many happened this generation is because a lot of people bought say, PS4 who didn't have any game console in the previous generation so game developers and Sony were banking on those people hearing from friends or other means why these remasters were must buys. Seems to have worked as well because it's been going on all generation.

If anyone would ask the question "will we still see some of the better games from the PS4/Xbox One etc. release on the next generation?" I'd would say yes, but unless or until we see stories that talk about a bunch of people buying consoles who didn't have them this generation, I would think that they would slow down going into it. That said, there might be more at the start so the new systems have more options and don't feel as barren as previous generations, but it could easily still slow down at some point.

With that said though, I may end up buying less games just because my money is tighter for at a while to the point where I had to buy all the games I'm playing this month and next with pre-orders well in advance of their release.