Games as adult content sends shock waves through the gaming industry
Industry leaders are now sweating over the prospect of having to deal with something like this and are assessing the possible implications.
In April, the US Supreme Court had agreed to review a motion prohibiting the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The law if passed is set to allow states to impose sales restrictions on violent titles — effectively declaring them to be on the same level as pornography and therefore able to legally limit their sale to adults.
The Supreme Court is reviewing a federal court's ruling, which had declared the law unconstitutional. Industry leaders are now sweating over the prospect of having to deal with something like this and are assessing the possible implications.
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take Two Interactive said,
It's very, very surprising that the Supreme Court is hearing the case," Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent Take Two told CNBC. I'm worried about it, and I think everybody in our business should be really worried about it.
The main concern is the fact that each state would push through their own version of the bill and developers might have to sell different versions of the game in separate states.
John Riccitiello, CEO of EA,
One of America's great exports is entertainment. The implication of Schwarzenegger v. ESA (the case before the Court) is we could end up with state level bureaucracies that define what's marketable in 50 different jurisdictions across the U.S. I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way."
they can always sell them threw the web with now problem but it should be the parents sole responsibility to make sure there kids are not getting the games if there kids buy it behind there back they should not be-able to make a lawsuit over the store failing to do the parents job and I can say that I am a parent of two kids and I feel it is my job not there's I would not take wall mart to court I would punish my kids for going behind my back and buying a game they are to young to play
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The main repercussion of this law -- many retailers would stop carrying M-rated games altogether. To protect themselves against lawsuits should their employees mistakenly sell to minors, they just won't sell games that put them at risk.
And if retailers won't sell games for grown-ups, developers won't make them.
The main repercussion of this law -- many retailers would stop carrying M-rated games altogether. To protect themselves against lawsuits should their employees mistakenly sell to minors, they just won't sell games that put them at risk.
And if retailers won't sell games for grown-ups, developers won't make them.
Wow you'll almost be as bad as that backwater they like to call Australia..
Games are age rated here and supposedly not sold to minors in the same way as movies but their parents just buy/rent them anyway. Kids can get annoying sometimes, imagine a 12 year old screeching and swearing through an 18 rated movie at the cinema that you just paid £10 to see. Society has no manners anymore and kids have no fear
My advice to the studio's...
Take you're games elsewhere. If they expect you to rehash 50 different cuts of your games, then move to a different market. Believe me, if the flow of games were cut off to the American people, they would go apeshit, and thus overturn this ridiculous law.
and all this just to get rid of all the 13 year old shit-talkers on xbox live...
We've already got that shit here, and it FUCKING SUCKS
they'll find another way to distribute the games and avoid the nonsense law.