Tuesday, March 22, 2011

2010: 5% of games given M rating, including 29% of big sellers

The Electronic Software Ratings Board has announced the number of games given each of the organization's ratings, and Mature-rated games are well in the minority when it comes to the titles on store shelves. In fact, only five percent of the games released in 2010 were rated Mature; out of 1,638 games rated, only 81 were given the Mature rating.

This is good news for people who think that games are becoming too violent, but the truth is that the biggest games of the year are often rated Mature, and those titles are over-represented in the year-end best-seller lists. How many of the games that sold over a million copies were rated Mature? An impressive 29 percent.

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