Video Games are becoming increasingly more sexual in nature and more and more violent each year. This has prompted Ratings on video games and many groups to decry the Industry. We have many lobby groups now gaining power in Washington DC and around the nation to put a stop to violence and sex in video games. When we see Hilary Clinton call for a sanctioning of Video Games and asks the FTC Federal Trade Commission to investigate makers of the Xboxs latest games, I understand the reasoning and the knee jerk reaction to the issue and how politicians follow the polls and how she might get some brownie points from the Christian Right side of things, looking like the Good Gal and that makes sense for her politically. Yet, it would seem better for the free market to make better and more moral games and defeat the negative by selling more games or in another venue like the Television. But to do so the gamming companies need to be sure that the political groups who decry sex and violence will buy their products. Will they or have these groups worked so hard to attack the video gamming industry that the Industry itself is now closing its door to these groups? Is the Industry dividing between good games and sexy violent ones? Will each sector continue under different platforms, such as Xbox, TV, Eyebud iPod or Sony PS? In the end if the money is pouring in for the action genre then the consumer has voted against these Mothers Against Sexy Violence in Video Games and if the consumer wants the nicer venue, then they will vote for a more politically correct or Christian Right Home Schooling Venue. This is an issue in 2006. |
