Morano wants to improve the display on violent video games
Posted by admin | Under business, resources, special, technology, world Friday Nov 27, 2009The signs shown on video games is too little known and not visible enough by the Secretary of State for Family, Nadine Morano. Such written statements and pictograms should enable parents to identify the particular minimum age recommended for each game and its degree of violence. "We see too many young people have easy access to shelves of video games most violent, most dangerous and which are not of age and pass without any difficulty to cash" deplored Nadine Morano Thursday on RMC / BFM .
Logos PEGI (Pan European Game Information, http: / / www.pegi.info/fr/) are not mandatory but all three major console manufacturers (Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft) do not play these unstamped European symbols in their catalog.They lay one hand a minimum recommended age (3, 7, 12, 16 and 18) and may also include potentially offensive content (violence, coarse language, sex …). So far only 4% of the games listed are recommended for over 18 years, against 12% for over 16 years and 24% for over 12 years. But this classification is only for information purposes only, with no binding and it is still very poorly understood by parents. While virtually all of 6-17 years practicing video games, only 21% of parents know the signs PEGI according to an Ipsos.
In this context, the secretary of state for family wants better information for parents as well as in-store packaging or on the internet for online sales.Furthermore, she asked that the information referring to the risk of epilepsy for players who stay too long behind their screens are visible on the packaging. In turn, in a statement, the union of the publishers of entertainment software (SELL) "surprised at the positions of the minister who go against the European trend. Considering about Nadine Morano as "a repudiation of the work carried out over the years by professionals in the game, the SELL stresses that" the development of new signage could upset consumers who are accustomed to standards PEGI " .Believing he had been hitherto neither listened nor heard by the Minister's Delegate General SELL Jean-Claude Larue complains: "Nadine Morano stigmatizes these digital entertainment with high potential without apparently having studied the matter seriously."
As for the National Union of Family Associations (UNAF), she believes it is important to build on the PEGI logos and raise awareness. "The signage could probably be improved, says Olivier Gerard support new technologies to UNAF, but it is essential to help parents to decide and justify whether their decision to buy a game" for go further in the discussion and discuss the game in all its aspects the association has launched with eight other partners a section dedicated to him on his sitewww.pedagojeux.fr.