My son has a considerable amount of XBox games that he inherited when his older brother moved out to set up house with his beloved in Germany. Some of them go back four years and he dosen’t even play them anymore – I wonder if any other parents notice that. When a new game comes out they jump up and down and swear blind they will be months playing it so it will be well worth the £49 the game costs – and then they get it and play it through in a matter of days or weeks.

That is why my son is still waiting for the latest game that has come out – and I am not one of those parents who will stand in a queue from 5am so that my little darling wont suffer the social stigma of not being one of the first to own the game! I am trying to get him to trade in his console for a Wii as I have fond memories of ole Super Mario and you cannot get him on anything else. Maybe on Xmas morning Santa will have taken care of that for me…