Who cares if the economy is declining - we've got video games!
So the economy seems to be crumbling all around us, and everywhere we turn, some expert or politician is throwing the word "recession" in our faces.
Do we panic? No, we keep buying video games.
Analyst Colin Sebastian of the investment bank Lazard Capital Markets is predicting that U.S. software sales will exceed $10 billion in 2008 despite the country's wobbly economic state. The gaming industry, he explains, is driven by products:
"Video game industry sales historically are driven by product cycles - in which sales of hardware and software follow a fairly predictable pattern - rather than by consumer spending and GDP growth."
Sebastian has even suggested that the declining economy could strengthen the industry because playing video games is a more "attractive per-hour entertainment value in comparison with other leisure activities, such as movies and vacations." Hell, who needs sunny beaches when you've got places like Southshore; mind the murlocs.
Here's to hoping the flourishing video game industry will help us out in the end.
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Then the drug companies would flourish coming out with new "diet" pills.
Video-gaming is helping our economy!one!111!
As my idol, Yugi Mutou, would say, "Get your game on!"
"Wanna lose weight but too busy or LAZY to actually DO it? Eat these pills!"
Short of plastic surgery, a young person may as well indulge in the considerably cheaper diet pill of the day.
If people are desperate enough during the recession, then I suppose they could digest a tape worm egg. I think my next business will involve selling tape worm eggs as the new, miracle diet pill.