{"id":6985,"date":"2018-01-10T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2018-01-08T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T22:06:08","slug":"2017-video-games-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6985","title":{"rendered":"2017 Video Games Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep a big Excel spreadsheet of all the video games I buy (it’s much easier to keep updated than The Backloggery<\/a>), and I thought that it would be fun to break down all that info into numbers. Because I’m a big old nerd and I love\u00a0organizing\u00a0data and determining statistics. There’s really not much else to say about it, so let’s jump right in!<\/p>\n

Acquisition Stats<\/u><\/strong>
\nVideo games “purchased” in 2017 : 148<\/strong>
\nThat’s a lot! Like, too many! But let’s look at some numbers that might make it seem less crazy. (Please note that neither this figure nor any below take into account the SNES Classic Mini.) Things seemed to be going well (aside from “Switch mania”), but then I bought two Halloween bundles, and the year-end sales really got to me, and the number just got really inflated.<\/p>\n

Games that were free : 26<\/b>\u00a0(18%)
\nGames that came in bundles : 51<\/b>\u00a0(34%)
\nThe term “free” covers several cases. Mostly free-to-play games and monthly PS+ downloads. But there’s also at least one cross-buy counted,\u00a0and games gifted to me are included there.
\n“Bundles” don’t only mean Humble Bundles and the like. I also included any instances where multiple games were purchased for one price, such as Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Double-dips : 18<\/strong>\u00a0(12%)
\nPaid DLC \/ microtransactions : 7<\/b>\u00a0(5%)
\nOn the opposite side of the spectrum, there are a lot of\u00a0games purchased that I already own on another machine. Simple ports and HD\u00a0remasters\u00a0are counted, but full-on remakes are not.
\nThankfully, I didn’t spend very much money on additional content or premium currencies in freemium games. A lot of games supplied free DLC this year, which is awesome!<\/p>\n

Physical games : 19<\/strong>\u00a0(13%)
\nDigital games : 129<\/b>\u00a0(87%)
\nI can still remember a time where I was a staunch supporter of buying physical as often as possible. And now… there are so many advantages to buying digital that I can’t help myself. There’s only one tax, you can usually get a really good sale, they don’t take up room on the shelf, I don’t have to go to the store… I often wonder how much money I’d save if digital distribution’s ease to impulse buy wasn’t a thing.<\/p>\n

Completion Stats<\/strong><\/u>
\n2017 games played : 82<\/b>\u00a0(55%)
\n2017 games beaten : 45<\/b>\u00a0(30%)
\n2017 games done : 40<\/b>\u00a0(27%)
\nKeep in mind that these stats are only relative to games acquired in 2017. Does not include any games purchased in a previous year. There’s also an important distinction between Beaten and Done. Beaten signifies that I have “rolled the credits” or whatever the equivalent might be. Done is a little looser, as it means that I am completely done with a game. This could mean that I played it to 100% completion, or that I gave up after 20 minutes and never intend to return, or that I lost access to it because I cancelled my PS+ subscription. Or something else along those lines.<\/p>\n

I did give my figures a somewhat questionable boost with a few games that can’t be beaten or completed in any measurable factor, like Namco Museum<\/strong>, and immediately filed them under both Beaten and Done. Still, I think the fact that I didn’t even get around to\u00a0trying 46% of the games I bought last year is rock-solid evidence that I bought far too many games.<\/p>\n

System Stats<\/u><\/strong>
\n3DS games purchased : 15<\/strong>\u00a0(10%)
\nDS games purchased : 1<\/b> (1%)
\nWii U games purchased :\u00a012<\/strong>\u00a0(8%)
\nSwitch games purchased : 36<\/b>\u00a0(24%)
\nPS3 games purchased : 3<\/strong> (2%)
\nPS4 games purchased : 33<\/b>\u00a0(22%)
\nSteam games purchased : 40<\/b>\u00a0(27%)
\niOS games purchased : 8<\/b>\u00a0(5%)
\nThere are a lot of little notes that come out of this data…
\nFor one, I didn’t think I had bought that many PS4 games, but then I remembered that a third of those games were free with PS+ and I likely never would have bothered with them otherwise.
\nI\u00a0also went a little nutty in March-August, buying up any Switch game that even vaguely piqued my interest. Such is life with a new console in a world where game rentals no longer exist.
\nIf I hadn’t bought any IndieGala bundles,\u00a0I would have paid for exactly 4 Steam games last year.
\nI considered breaking down all these numbers\u00a0by played\/beat\/done, but there’s just no way to display that nicely in WordPress without a significant amount of effort. So the totals will just have to suffice.<\/p>\n

Finally, because I love to compare statistics…<\/p>\n

2016 Comparison!<\/u><\/strong>
\nVideo games purchased in 2016 : 184<\/strong> (19.5% decrease in 2017)
\n2016 games played : 82<\/b>\u00a0(44%)
\n2016 games beaten : 47<\/strong>\u00a0(25%)
\n2016 games done : 49<\/strong>\u00a0(26%)
\nHoly crow! No wonder I couldn’t afford to keep my house! I bought way too many games in 2016! And I didn’t even boot up half of them! It gets even worse when you consider that all of these numbers continued to increase in 2017. Perhaps my goal for 2018 should be to stop impulse-buying video games. Also to unsubscribe from the Humble Bundle and Indie Gala newsletters.<\/p>\n

(If you really wanna know, I’ve only bought one game in 2018 so far.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep a big Excel spreadsheet of all the video games I buy (it’s much easier to keep updated than The Backloggery), and I thought that it would be fun to break down all that info into numbers. Because I’m a big old nerd and I love\u00a0organizing\u00a0data and determining statistics. There’s really not much else … Continue reading 2017 Video Games Stats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7327,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions\/7327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}