The Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) comes with some heavy surveys for 2010. A huge packet of information about gaming public in Europe. Interested in a avalanche of data for market size, motivations, family, gamers activities, habits and more? Check this out!
Link to complete pdf:
http://lnk.nu/isfe.eu/1ier....
Link to image:
http://lnk.nu/isfe.eu/1ies....
PEGI is currently investigating the issue.
to be honest, the whole age rating system needs a big overhaul. people are not as sensitive as some of these make us out to be ha.
Most of the ratings boards these days allow self examination and primarily work on a honour system.
Since the rise of streaming there's way to much content for governing bodies to shift through themselves so it's become standard practice in many places to rate it yourself on where you feel it fits into the scale so this is not the only thing that extorts the system but just one that got caught.
However back in my day you'd be selling a game on its rating being super high like doom but guess times have changed
The Video Standards Council, which administrates the PEGI age rating for video games, has rebranded to the Games Rating Authority (GRA).
The name change was attributed to further clarifying the ratings board's position to parents and the games industry.
The chances of XCOM: Chimera Squad making its way to PlayStation 4 in the near future appear to be very high as the PEGI ratings board has just finalised an appropriate age grading for a console port. - PushSquare
16 year olds aren't adults!!
PEGI is the stupidest thing ever!
Racing games can be 12+ because crashing is "violent".
Soooooo stupid!
See what the world's largest market thinks.
quite interesting that only 14% buy more than half of all the games sold, the rest are bought for them.