Wow, those soaring gas prices and the horrid mortgage industry [and the great international food shortage] must really be hitting big time. I'm speechless.NEW YORK: Take-Two Interactive Software Inc scored over $500 million in global sales of criminal action game "Grand Theft Auto 4" in its first week, marking what it called one of the most lucrative entertainment events in history. [...]
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/New … 019494.cms
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That's not what I said.IRONCHEF wrote:
So there's NO economic crisis in our country based on GTA selling well?
Your sarcasm certainly suggests that complaining of the economic situation is unneeded because people can buy a fifty dollar video game.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
That's not what I said.IRONCHEF wrote:
So there's NO economic crisis in our country based on GTA selling well?
I'm sick of hearing about all the dry well moaning about the economy when people are still buying $50+ video games and paying to have their parking lots repainted. But if you're one of those people who had to gamble on a cruise ship because you couldn't afford another flight to Las Vegas, you may have my overwhelming sympathy.
Or spend $30,000 on a business maintenance project. As to your second point, I'm sure that with the maturing video game audience, plenty of people with jobs, a mortgage and a family to support have spent $50 on a game, not even counting the cost of all the gear required to play it as well as whatever library of movies and games they have in addition. I'm not saying that there isn't any trouble or that a single aspect of the market is a good benchmark for the whole economy (which should have been obvious to begin with), but that there is far less of it than the gloomy miasma emitted from the flatulent orifice of the media would have people believe.IRONCHEF wrote:
Your sarcasm certainly suggests that complaining of the economic situation is unneeded because people can buy a fifty dollar video game.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
That's not what I said.IRONCHEF wrote:
So there's NO economic crisis in our country based on GTA selling well?
I'm sick of hearing about all the dry well moaning about the economy when people are still buying $50+ video games and paying to have their parking lots repainted. But if you're one of those people who had to gamble on a cruise ship because you couldn't afford another flight to Las Vegas, you may have my overwhelming sympathy.
I think a better gauge of the economic condition on people are what they plan to do with their stimulus checks, how they react to seeing the prices in supermarkets, the gas pump, and in their foreign investments. Yes, things will have to get bad before kids/adults won't pay $50 for a game..but then, how many kids even have a clue about the economy when they don't even have jobs, or a mortgage, a family to support, etc.
Which is why you see so many conservatives bitching and moaning about it now...Turquoise wrote:
Just wait... We'll see conservatives bellyaching about the economy if Obama gets the presidency.
It's politics. Bitch and moan when the other party has the power.
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You still have the presidency. Like I said, just wait.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Which is why you see so many conservatives bitching and moaning about it now...
Uh.... what? LOLunnamednewbie13 wrote:
I suppose people expected sit down to a nice, cozy two-page diatribe about something else going down the tubes when they clicked on 'Economic Disaster,' and have been left with an empty feeling of unfulfillment.
It was a good post.Spearhead wrote:
Uh.... what? LOLunnamednewbie13 wrote:
I suppose people expected sit down to a nice, cozy two-page diatribe about something else going down the tubes when they clicked on 'Economic Disaster,' and have been left with an empty feeling of unfulfillment.
I stopped reading after that tbh... dude, wtf are you talking about?
Even though your article clearly states 'global sales,' we'll assume that it was only bought in America, just for kicks.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Wow, those soaring gas prices and the horrid mortgage industry [and the great international food shortage] must really be hitting big time. I'm speechless.NEW YORK: Take-Two Interactive Software Inc scored over $500 million in global sales of criminal action game "Grand Theft Auto 4" in its first week, marking what it called one of the most lucrative entertainment events in history. [...]
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/New … 019494.cms
*melodramatic sigh* Not the only game product out there, nor is it by any means through its sales life-cycle. Nor, for that matter, are video games the only cash sink (that is not in much danger of being abandoned) that Americans and the rest of the world has at our disposal. And, for the sake of your math, let's assume that 2.78% of Americans bought this game: you refer to percentiles over 1/100 when dealing with millions as not being particularly noteworthy.CommieChipmunk wrote:
Even though your article clearly states 'global sales,' we'll assume that it was only bought in America, just for kicks.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Wow, those soaring gas prices and the horrid mortgage industry [and the great international food shortage] must really be hitting big time. I'm speechless.NEW YORK: Take-Two Interactive Software Inc scored over $500 million in global sales of criminal action game "Grand Theft Auto 4" in its first week, marking what it called one of the most lucrative entertainment events in history. [...]
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/New … 019494.cms
$500,000,000 / $60 dollars per game = 8,333,333.33 people bought the game.
8,333,333.33 people who bought the game / ~300,000,000 People in America x 100 = ~ 2.78% of Americans bought the game.
So.. even though we all know it's a much lower percent, assuming that Americans accounted for all of the sales, that's not even 3% of the population.
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and a $100m Iron Man opening. We have plenty of disposable income, we just don't wanna spend it on something as disposable as gasoline.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Wow, those soaring gas prices and the horrid mortgage industry [and the great international food shortage] must really be hitting big time. I'm speechless.NEW YORK: Take-Two Interactive Software Inc scored over $500 million in global sales of criminal action game "Grand Theft Auto 4" in its first week, marking what it called one of the most lucrative entertainment events in history. [...]
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/New … 019494.cms
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true, but most of it is self-induced. The mortgage crisis, for example. I mean, no one forced the banks to hand out mortgage credits like they were becoming unpopular. That is simply bad decision-making on part of the banks.ATG wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I hope your right.
but, there is some real pain going right now.
come on. we have had that before. Gas prices in the US are laughably low compared to most of the western world.Kmarion wrote:
GTA is a bargain.. at least we can pretend like we can afford to drive.
lol a ps3 and the game cost about the same as 10 fillings of my gas tank. It is a bargain!Kmarion wrote:
GTA is a bargain.. at least we can pretend like we can afford to drive.
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The US economy is dependent on high levels of personal spending.Also, I have the impression that a lot of americans are really, really bad at managing their own finances. You know, buying lots of stuff they really don't need, with money they really don't have. And then they wonder why they owe so much money to the credit card companies.
