What Will Going PEGI-Only Mean for Games Sales?

My boss's wife had made the same excuse. "it isn't worth the bother to stop him playing CoD, all he would do is go and play it at a friends house" he is 11! I thought about showing her some cut scenes from Dead space 2 to make her more aware of what could be in a game!

@gingineer Exactly. The fact you can't outright stop something doesn't mean you should make it easy!

I prefer the BBFC ratings because it seems clearer to me, and having one rating system across the entertainment board definitely helps. Having said that, I have actually seen a few PEGI 18-rated games in some places like GAME.

Surely Hollywood is worried about 12 ratings because film tickets are sold for at most a quarter of the price of games so they have to sell four times the tickets to take the same amount of money as a game?

It's only in takings that games are outperforming film, not in numbers sold.

@DrkStr They do have to sell more to make the same money - at least if you're only looking at box office. But Blu-ray prices are around the same as many lower-tier and budget releases (which, while they don't make a lot of headlines, are very important for publishers) and Hollywood has a longer tail on its products than a lot of games publishers thanks to not having the same pre-owned problem. That said, I don't know how streaming is affecting that.

None of which matters that much, since regardless of how much a publisher makes per unit, they'd all still like to make more. If younger teens were actually sat there as an untapped market for your Skyrims and your CoDs, don't doubt for a second that publishers would clean up their content.