Recession

I was wondering today, as I stared at my roommates PS3 what it might cost to own such a thing. I looked up some figures, and any one of the newest fully loaded gaming systems; xbox 360, PS#, and wii will run someone, if they go all out and get the fully loaded packages between 630 and 670 dollars. No gamers argue that because of the versatility of the consoles doubling as internet machines, DVD, or blueray players significantly increase the monetary value, it is hard to believe that in an economic crisis that people will shell out this kind of cash for a system. Not to mention that these are store prices,and people were willing to pay well over 200% of the sticker price when they first came out just to get their hands on it faster.
The truth is, though as i poke around the internet I find article after article about how for one reason or another the different authors may attribute to the solidity of the gaming market that the video gaming console industry has been all but unaffected by the ecenomic situation. I fint it interesting, that such a pupular culture sect sits pretty while something like the automobile industry cries for help. Maybe not having a car makes people sit at home and play video games who knows. My point is, that even the struggle for survival in an economy where people all over America are running through four lanes of traffic to pick up a dime they dropped will spend enough to support the entire video game industry as though the market was ont he up and up. Its like america is addicted to it's pop culture, we need it, we crave it, and we will spend whatever it takes to support our own habit.