I've no idea what the unemployment rate is
In Wales, it's about double what it was at the start of the year.
120,000 "claimants" or so, vs 60,000 back in January.
A couple of months ago there were about 250,000 people furloughed on top of that, which represents a whole of bunch of soon-to-be-claimants.
Yeah, there's a balance here, but if video games help stave off the learned helplessness that job hunting will surely engender, they don't seem completely frivolous even from a very narrow perspective of utility.
(And I don't even disagree with the views about money management, and I'm not convinced that any £250 console purchase is an ... efficient one for gaining future access to good video games. But that's another conversation.)