> Video games are like the cheapest way to keep a kid busy for low income working parents
Source on that? Video games (console or pc) is very expensive and not something low income folks can generally afford for their kids.
Source on that? Video games (console or pc) is very expensive and not something low income folks can generally afford for their kids.
Of course, without video games either, kids will find a way to have fun regardless. My grim apartment complex still had kids kicking around a soccer ball or riding bikes in the parking lot.
Video games are the cheapest form of paid entertainment for the amount of time that a single purchase occupies.
Despite their audience being extremely price sensitive (which has nothing to do with socioeconomics, just consumer expectations), all stakeholders recognize this and extract value in other ways.
Just some anec-data. I did not have any consoles growing up simply because we could not afford them. Eventually we got a single very old very slow machine that was shared among the family. I know a few other people in the same situation (usually 1st/2nd generation immigrants). Thus in my mind, video games are luxury products, which are not affordable to low income households.