What ever happened to accountability?
Posted On Thursday, April 24th, 2008 By Jay
EU orders gaming industry to better protect youth.
ELSPA Ratings Website
FTC Entertainment ratings guide.
What’s interesting to me is that with minimal searching, I was able to educate myself on the ratings and they’re meaning. Is it the responsibility of the video game industry to educate the populace at large of the ratings system?
Looking up video game ratings in goggle links me to this site, the ESRB website. This information is easy to come by and very easy to digest. According to my rough estimations, there are roughly 100 extremely violent video games released each year. This includes horror games, which are generally overlooked, just like B rated horror movies. Now given that last year 1415 games were released, we can assume less then 10% of video games are violent and released each year.
What’s more interesting, is that on many occasions the violent video games sell and rate very high. Ironically, I think this points more to the video game audience and less the video game industry. If there is a market, industry will create a product. The video game industry is full of business after all. And in order to stay afloat, Continue Reading
