Total cost of gaming

I've been gaming since the late 70s, so I just couldn't even guess how much I have spent on games and hardware since then.

But my PC gaming did start In 1993 because of Doom. And I still have a lot of my old hardware plus games.

I have about 2500 games that I still own. On both consoles and for my PC.
 
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What kind of GPU have you got the 2500k paired with? Q6600 felt like a massive upgrade at the time!

GTX1080 which was an upgrade a few years back from a 970. I do think that I am now due a system upgrade (of course the advice is always to wait for the next big thing). I'm thinking that when I do upgrade the CPU etc. I might keep using the 1080 for a while until some sanity returns to the GPU market. Hopefully a 4080 or 5080 will then give another decent boost to performance!
 
A hell of a lot but it's for gaming and photo editing so it's all very much been worth every penny spent over the years.

Is say around 7k since 2005 on the pc and games.
 
Really hard to tell. Games I've bought perhaps 1500-2000 something like that. Average cost per game will be quite low though, there's probably only 100-200 games that I will have paid £20+ for.

Console hardware about £1.5k. Mostly a waste of money, for example I bought a PS4 six years ago but literally have not played any games on it yet I don't think, just used as a media player (which I could just as easily have used the Xbox One for). Should've not bought it at all and waited for PS5.

PC hardware (not exclusively for games, but predominantly so), maybe about £8-9k. Didn't think it would be that much but I guess if you consider I've bought perhaps 10 'core upgrades" costing maybe £350 each on average, £1500 worth of monitors, perhaps £2.5k of GPUs, then at least another grand on disk drives, peripherals etc. In fact those ancillary items probably add up to a lot more than I'd first think, what with SSDs, even stuff like CD Burner, DVD Burner, PSUs etc.

So in total it would be over £10k on PC/Console hardware. Not actually that bad considering it dates back the 90s, about £500/year average, some people will have spent more than that on holidays over the same time period.

Definitely got more value out of PC than consoles, I basically ignored all consoles between the SNES/Megadrive and the Wii, but then got suckered into buying 'bargain' offers on the PS3/Xbox360, which to be fair I did enjoy playing on, followed by the next generation of consoles for more money that I've not used much. At least with the Xbox One my son has played on it a fair bit.

edit: I reckon if I could actually add up ALL the costs, I'd probably find I've massively underestimated somewhere and I could well have hit over £10k just on PC hardware.
 
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