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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
In what entitled world does a 11 year old ask their parent for a $500 console and then want a brand new game every month. My parents would and did laugh at me for asking for such an outrageous demand. Either I am giving parents too much credit for being good parents, or parents are becoming extremely easy to push around at all their kids wants and desires.
This is a silly argument, you can't with a straight face think that parents are going to buy their kid a $500 console, $60/yr Live subscription and then $60/game. It's ludicrous. A $500 price tag does not target a casual gamer.
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rofl. You can't possibly think with a straight face that this DOESN'T happen. Hell, this has been happening since I was a kid.
Growing up in a relatively middle-class community in Winnipeg, most of my friends had a console from every generation (taking into account our ages). One friend of mine had the NES, then Super NES, then Playstation, then the PS2. This was not uncommon in the slightest.
I was not one of those kids, however, because my parents didn't want to spoil me. I had two video game consoles. One was an 8-bit NES when I turned 4 (my dad wanted one), and one was a 16-bit Sega Genesis that I bought by trading in my NES console and all the games, plus ponying up some cash from my allowance. I didn't own another console until I was 21, when I bought the Xbox 360. But I was the exception, not the rule, and so were you.
Fast-forward to today, every kid is walking around with a $200 iPod or a $650 iPhone (subsidized or not, it's still a healthy chunk of change plus a monthly contract). Most of them have their own computer / laptop or both, and at least one of the Wii, X360 or PS3. You are sorely mistaken if you think that parents won't buy it, because they already do.