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New study confirms what your backlog already knew about $70 games

Destructoid·Gamers Group·27 days ago
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A new study about gamers and their hobby habits shows quite a divide between Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z, but there’s one big common denominator. In an IGN Entertainment poll of “thousands of highly-committed content consumers in the US, UK and Australia,” 62 percent said that they no longer buy full-price games. Whether this means purchasing games at lower prices or waiting for “premium” games to go on sale is unclear, but it reflects a big change in the industry. Screenshot by Destructoid “Working with Kantar and at UC Berkeley, we identified people to ask the questions to,” said Karl Stewart, SVP of IGNE Global Marketing, according to GamesIndustry.biz . “They were highly qualified entertainment cinephiles, gamers consuming a lot of stuff weekly… we’re not talking about casual here.…

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