I don’t know about the main point that you are making, meaning that it’s the economy’s fault.

I only have a few data points to compare, but anecdotally me and my friends have plenty of budget to buy games, but not enough time to play them as the poster above says. I have such a huge backlog of nice games that I don’t care to buy a game at release time, I can wait for a discount. If it is something exceptionally good that I want to play now, i will do it, but mostly on the ~20 euro range

So I will agree with the poster above. Make something exceptionally good, otherwise it compares with my backlog.