Parents should be responsible enough to supervise their children’s use of gaming console – the parental controls make it much easier for them to do that. Their kids would have as much chance of guessing the PIN on their parents’ ATM card.

Surely by the standards you’ve described, all games available to buy online should be suitable for children then, right? Possibly the PG classification would even be out of the question – after all, we can’t be sure that parents are supervising their children whilst they’re playing the games…

that means that they can buy it without any consent so in theory a 5 year old kid could buy it.

I think that games that are purchased online would probably have even stricter ratings as its easily accessable by anyone.

Retailers have been cracking down more on who buys which games. But that doesn’t stop the ignorance of adults who just buy children any game because it’s a game.
Really I think an R rating should be introduced and a proper campaign to show the ratings for games properly and why they are rated that way like they do with movies because people just aren’t getting the message and then people like myself who would like to play such games and am over 18 heck over 21 if they want to get as picky as the US miss out on such titles because they are censored because people worry about children playing them.

If movies can get away with it why not videogames? It’s a big industry and I think it’s about time such things stopped being ignored.

Heck look at the stats Kotaku showed over that rapesim dispute in Japan.
Japan has a much lower sexual assault rate than Australia does and they are known to be one of those perverted countries when it comes to videogames. Maybe other countries should consider if the low sexual crime rate is related to the fact that people can indulge there fantasies in a game rather than in real life. I don’t know if it is. But it very well could be.

Maybe it’s time we thought about being a little more perverted in some areas, to distract people from real life perversions. You get what I mean.

I maintain that people who play games are less violent than people who don’t.

Go live in haiti for a couple of weeks, might give a moron like you some perspective.

I’m really starting to hate the country in which i was born and bred…

Dont get me wrong, i want an R18 classification but a game like this needs to be in a higher rating, esp when a 10 year old kid could go into big w and purchase this, the people there dont care.

I agree with this one.