ESRB ratings are familiar to all gamers and most parents, as well. However, despite high awareness and use of the ESRB ratings, it’s still critically important that we as an industry sustain our efforts to educate parents about the rating system and the tools we provide that help them manage the games their children play.
To that end, SCEA is doing its part with the ESRB Video Game Ratings Guide that comes pre-loaded right on the new PSPgo device itself. I got a peek at the Guide as it was being developed and it was great to see its straight-forward and thorough overview of the ESRB rating system as well as a step-by-step walkthrough of the device’s parental control features and settings. Definitions of the ESRB age rating categories and content descriptors give parents a good understanding of how the ratings work, examples of titles that carry each of the ratings provide a useful point of reference, and the tutorial on setting up parental controls makes putting those ratings to work on the system a quick and easy process.
It’s a great tool that I highly recommend parents check out to familiarize themselves with ESRB ratings so they are well-prepared to manage the games their kids play on their new PSPgo.
Interesting…
Thats kinda cool I guess.
Keep up the good work Ms. Vance and know that whatever crap congress wants to give ya, we Canadians support the ESRB 100%
PSPgo = Epic Fail
ERSB Have no use for U I Have no kids :)
There was something bothering me in the body of the post… Is that REALLY how you spell “thorough.” I checked, and apparently it is. Orthographically, it seemed fine but just seeing it there, it LOOKED wrong. Ever happen to you? Like with particular fonts maybe?
Oh, right there was a subject here, huh? XD Being one of the hardest of core gamers (Jeff can testify to this XP), I wouldn’t really have any questions about the system, and I get the feeling most people stopping by this blog wouldn’t either. That is indeed one of the big questions, isn’t it? How do you get an uninterested parent interested? How do you get them that information when they don’t have this channel of information open?
I think the best way is to invade one of THEIR channels. >=)
Seriously, advertise it on the Home and Gardening channel, E! and whatever channel has that stupid cooking reality-TV-show-thing. (Kitchen of Hell? Apparently one of the guys is really angry at the other guys. Shocker!)
This is great software for those that need it!
That’s not a bad idea, but I find it probably won’t really have any impact. The parents that completely ignore age ratings on video games at this point probably aren’t ever going to ever end up touching the pspgo they buy for their kid.
Why is ‘Go’ capitalized in the title? I thought it was the PSPgo <— lower case
Good feature for parents. Good job.
Most kids I know that have game systems the parents have no clue as to how to turn the thing on much less to read this stuff. Most kids save up their allowance or whatever and go to the store and buy it. Whenever I go to a game store like EB or walmart I see kids buying games with no parents anywhere to be seen. I have 5 little cousins and they all bought GTA without my aunts even knowing they had it or what the game was about until i said something.
zombie9= Epic Fail
Since clearly he has no plans to have kids, or is not genetically fit enough, nor any friends, let alone ones that have kids, and so is ready to write off an entire toolset because it is only useful to others besides himself. He also apparently has no use for spelling and grammar.
PSPGo= Good piece of equipment, but with an asterisk on the price-point. Definitely not an A, but not an F, either.
This is the worst store update evar!!!!!!!!! Oops… sorry, getting ahead of myself here.
Parental locks on systems and portables fail because kids are too smart and they go look up the override password. =\
Can’t wait until we have biometrics parental controls, then they’ll have to steal my thumb or retina to play M-Rated games
Because this is not worth my time I’ll take this oportunity to talk about how stoked I am for uncharted 2 and lost planet 2 …….can’t wait wooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!add me if you wanna play fat princess (using mic)
is it an application (paid) or a free standart delivered application?
It\’s on the PSPgo when you get it. No charge, and if you don\’t need it, you can delete it. It\’s a surprisingly neat app for parents, though, and definitely worth a look.