| bugrimmar said: Hundreds of thousands of consoles sell every week.. and that leads me to think of a big picture of those hundreds of thousands of people coming out of shops like ants carrying a console outta there. i dunno, it seems implausible to me that that many people actually purchase game consoles every week. first of all, they're not exactly cheap. second, the economy is supposed to be struggling. i mean, if you think about it... every 7 days, 500,000 people walk home with a console in their bags? it doesn't seem realistic... i looked at a picture of a hundred thousand people watching woodstock. i can't get over thinking 5x that picture go buy consoles every week...
am i just being paranoid, delusional, and out of touch with the world? |
It might help if you consider that over 60,000 times as many people that were at woodstock live in this world, and the people can own more than one console. Human grasp of ridiculously large numbers is shaky at best, the number of consoles sold each week is among some of the easier of those ridiculously large numbers to grasp. Consider the distance between the earth and the sun (~93,000,000 miles) or the distance to the nearest (non-Sol) star (271k Astronomical Units, or in other words 271,000 times farther than the sun). Then the width of the Galaxy we live in is still ~23,300 times wider than that 271k AU distance and the nearest non-dwarf galaxy beyond our own (Andromeda) is about 25 times the width of our galaxy (and we are set to "collide" here in a about 2.5 Billion years or so).
Scope is often hard to grasp when you are, relatively speaking, so insignificantly small compared to what you are trying to grasp. So its not surprising that the number of console sales each week should seem so absurd when we have nothing in our daily lives to compare it to.
That's kind of a roundabout response, but hopefully it helps=P
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