Xbox 360 to feature parental control system...

[Zim Hosein]

Microsoft's next-gen console to check software for age rating restrictions

The Xbox 360 will feature a parental locking system that can be used to prevent children from accessing games unsuitable for their age range, according to Japanese website Mainichi.

Parents will be able to set-up the console so it will only play games with appropriate age ratings. When users attempt to load a game, the machine will read data from the disk to determine whether it falls into the correct category.

In addition, parents will be able to programme the 360 to restrict children's access to online chatrooms.

The Mainichi article states that the new features, which have never been included in a games console before, will be built-in to US and European machines as well as Japanese units. There has recently been a storm of controversy in Japan surrounding Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto, before even the Hot Coffee scandal emerged.

Xbox 360 to feature parental control system

WTF is the point of the ESRB again?

 

[dguy6789]

Um, Xbox already has a parental control system and nobody complained about it.

 

[Kevin1211]

meh, i could care less.. im over 18...

 

[deftron]

Pretty much everything that plays visual media has parental control thesedays.

(TVs, DVD players, Cable Boxes, Playstaion, Xbox)


nothing new

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Um, Xbox already has a parental control system and nobody complained about it.

I'm not complaining about PC's, I'm as to why the ESRB exists?

 

[inveterate]

it doesn't,, whens the last time u looked at the lower corners of produc boxes