Videogames: Recession Proof?

[Comrade Tovya]

kuraobi said:
Videogames are entertainment, and crisis is good for those industries, it's well known. For example here in France, there's never been as many people in the theaters than during World War 2, and all kinds of entertainment saw big increases in sales during the war.

 

While I agree that a bad economy is good for the entertainment industry, WWII is kind of a bad example because theatres were also the only widely used form of visual news too.  Theatres all across the world played war footage on the big screen before television became the visual medium... so theatres stayed pretty packed.  Not to say that people didn't use it as a diversion as well, it just wasn't the primary reason.