Anyone else halting/slowing down their purchases this year?

[PriestTroit]

Just buy the same one you had. If it worked before, I'll work just as good again.

[Doomie]

Yes.

...until the Lunar New Year sale, then there goes my wallet up in flames.

[ethansito]

My buying of games has halted because the Steam sale ended.

I guess I won't be buying anything new if it's all re-releases this year. I don't buy anything new anyway, so it doesn't really affect me.

[Aerrae]

I really don't buy all that much big stuff anymore. Hell I've practically skipped this console gens games entirely. Will probs buy Red Dead 2 sometime. KH3 I've pre-ordered. I think Persona 5 has a complete edition coming and I never bought or played the original.

I respect the last of us story but I don't really wanna play the tps bit for it. I can kinda sorta enjoy games like it but I never feel like they're worth full price, just my opinion.

The rest of my purchases will probably be obscure JRPG's on steam.

Oh yeah and Devil May Cry 5.

[OzzieArcane]

I'm not expecting too much that I actually care about to release this year. So chances are yeah I'm slowing down just cause nothing I really want is going to release.

[xadu]

My Geforce died days ago. It only works in zombie mode, as a generic VGA.

I have to buy a new GPU, but this is the worst possible moment.

Nvidia has just released the RTX series, but
-They aren't good enough for ray tracing, so I said "well, I'm going to wait for the next generation, when they will be powerful enough and affordable", and now have to eat my words.
-They didn't replaced the older generation on their price zone. The new ones are more expensive, and not much more powerful.
-Today AMD is the best bang for the buck, but I need CUDA, so I can't make a best buy, and I hate to help nVidia.
-AMD is about to release new cards, so in some months GPU new GPUs should be much better.
-GPU mining crashed, so prices should fall on next months.
-Nvidia still has a large unsold stock of old cards, so it doesn't want to sell the new ones, and doesn't want to reduce prices.

At this point, I can use a browser, but cannot even watch youtube at acceptable framerates.

So, I NEED a new GPU, and also should wait.

[PriestTroit]

I think it's been officially a full year since I've bought a new game, except for Doom when it was on sale. I can wait another year if new gen is coming out in 2020

I've got enough backlog as it is

[Nella_Bolt]

Yeah The Switch definitely has a lackluster store. New releases and ports aside, it has the same selection you'd find crossing over Steam and the PS4, with the addition of old ass NeoGeo games. The only port i was genuinely happy about was Hyper Light Drifter because it has content that's special to the switch as far as I know, and it's pretty good content.

[Nella_Bolt]

I actually had an increase of purchases this year because I've just become aware of the climbing prices of old Pokemon games. Black and White 2 are on Amazon ranging from $30-100, the old GBA games are sitting around 30, I fully expect Soul Silver and Heart Gold to get even more expensive, and don't even try to look at the Gamecube games. If I could find a copy of Pokemon Box for under $100 I'd be golden.

[Ryan]

I'm going to struggle if Tsushima comes out this year. I have a 'personal' connection with that game haha (Japanese heritage) and I like the developer. I really hope it's a PS5 launch title. I'm selfish like that, and hell, it would look really good for Sony to launch with some top-tier games.

[Ryan]

Honest question, not trying to sound like a troll -- what is keeping you so hooked on the Switch? Aren't most of the games right now just ports and re-releases?

[Ryan]

I don't think companies will hold back anything to release it later because of the new platform, I think that's a higher risk for them. That would assume enough people have purchased the platform to make with holding that content worth it (along with the sacrifice of good will to the community). But, it's a valid concern -- they do stupid shit these days.

[FlyersFan94]

I plan on only getting 5 or 6 "big" games this year; Tales of Vesperia (my favorite game of all time), Ace Combat 7, Metro Exodus, Seikiro: Shadows Die Twice, Code Vein and Ghost of Tsushima (if it releases this year)

[DeathBySNUSNUU]

I am trying to, but Nintendo Switch has my full attention atm. I haven't played a nintedo console this much since N64.
I am mainly waiting for Division 2, Cyber punk 2077, Death Stranding, and The Last of Us 2. Waiting and watching, not buying... waiting to see if it good.

[Midnight_Mogwai]

I'll be sticking to a few major releases and niche games until the November game sales. I regret nearly every game I purchased this fall because they devalued almost immediately. There will be a few games I buy each month because I am taking game reviewing seriously, and I want to push myself to stay relevant. I probably will not buy anything outside of what I will be reviewing unless I anticipate the game becoming difficult to find in the case of switch physical games.