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Scott Duwe

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

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.

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