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The Washington Post has an interview with Todd Howard now that the launch day of Fallout 3 is getting very close.
Q: Some analysts have put it out that they think video games are recession proof or recession resistant? Any thoughts?
Howard: I don't have inside information or anything like that about it.
If someone's going to Best Buy last Christmas they might be
splurging for an HDTV, where this year ... maybe their big present will
be a video game, so they'll trade down to the $50-$60 things as opposed
to the thousand dollar things
I think there's some truth to that. I was reading an article about
the Great Depression how well movies did, people were going to theaters
as a relatively cheap way of having some fun. And I think, particularly
with the games we do, there's so much value, so much time you can get
out of your money there.
And we have a lot of hype as a top-tier game. I think the top ten
games will get their percentage of the money pretty well, I don't know
about the games below that. I don't know if people will be buying
multiple games this year.
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