Court findings last month, held by various video games associations, whose members include Electronic Arts, Sony and Microsoft, indicated that their costs involved in winning a case against a California law which tried to ban violence video games, was $1,1 million. In other words, that is a realistic guide as to what it costs to bring a successful appeal in the US Supreme Court. It certainly illustrates, if nothing else, that legal fees in South Africa are substantially cheaper – and of course, this result that the video games companies wanted, was essentially extremely cheap to them in an industry where sales are $25 billion a year.