• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    People have been buying Madden and Call Of Duty reliably for decades now. Doesn’t matter if they’re good or cheap, there are people who identify as “a person who buys Madden and Call Of Duty.”

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      2 days ago

      Those are individual games though, console games are just much more expensive on average. There isn’t as much available on the cheaper end of the market.

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          2 days ago

          Probably very few among the people who carefully weighed which system gives them the better bang for their buck.

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            1 day ago

            Nah, a lot of people just buy whatever their friends have, and only own a handful of games (Madden, FIFA, etc) and just don’t think about it.

            Look at how many people can’t afford the cars they own and roll negative equity into the next one, or look at how much credit card debt people have on average. People just buy without thinking too much.

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              1 day ago

              Yeah, to rephrase my post the other way around, buying a console and just a few games is only really possible because it is carried by people who don’t carefully weigh if that is a financially sound decision.