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Your thinking's inefficient, son. The consumer loses out in just about every way short of a Steam-style sale. Oh, and kids use cash...

apart from the e biggest demographic in games are in the plus 20 age group

I think that is wrong. People can add bigger drives quite easily. The Apple App Store model is actually quite good in that it is very flexible for purchases. The fact that it seems to be doing quite well shows that that the broadband excuse might not be valid either.

Games are a luxury discretionary item so when people are finding things are tough games might be cut from the budget. Though they might decide that they will get a game as a treat so that might add sales.

I know (I'd heard that since PS1), but there's no sense in shortening your reach, ethical or not.

There must be a significant number of older people who are happy to play computer games. Computers have been in the home since the very early 1980's so anyone born after 1970 would be young enough to have had a home computer at home during their childhood. Many will have become gamers then and many will still enjoy playing computer games. So it would explain why older gamers are prevalent.