I'd guess it comes down to games being entertainment. People also easily pay for a streaming service or two. Personally I don't play that many games, touching

I'd guess it comes down to games being entertainment. People also easily pay for a streaming service or two. Personally I don't play that many games, touching a new one every couple month, and usually only get them when they're on sale on steam or gog, never paying more than about 25€, usually getting older titles for maybe 10. So that might still make it more money per year than for software, but the individual purchase isn't that much and thus easier done. I don't know if you're counting apps here too, but I collected a couple over the years that were only 1 to maybe 5 bucks, again since this isn't a huge amount of money the decision is easily made. As for professional software, I don't do photo editing often and professionally enough to justify anything more than gimp, for example. Same would go for video. I write maybe two or three letters a year, so libre office is more than enough.