Other groups have created barter economies. thredUP specialises in exchanging children's clothes, but also has exchanges for everything from make-up to video games.
At a US games developers' conference last week, some suggested that new start-up studios should make games for mobile phones and handheld consoles, like the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS, instead.
The government's inability to make itself work better is a more basic failing richly evident in the games' foul-up for which Congress, in charge of the Delhi state government, is especially guilty.