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Technology Lifestyle Obama says: Put away the Xbox, Microsoft responds | Obama says: Put away the Xbox, Microsoft responds |
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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Monday, 20 July 2009 | |
  
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Obama said “To parents, we can’t tell our kids to do well in school and fail to support them when they get home. For our kids to excel, we must accept our own responsibilities. That means putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour. It means attending those parent-teacher conferences, reading to our kids, and helping them with their homework.” Which, in context seems fair enough, but high in the dark bat-swirled towers of castle Microsoft, certain spokespeople plotted a response. Via GamePolitics.com the Microsoft response was: “We agree with President Obama that it’s a time for families to work together so that kids use media in ways that are safe, healthy and balanced. Xbox 360 is the only console gaming system that has a timer feature allowing parents to set time limits for their kids, as well as parent controls to enable parents to set limits on what their kids are playing and watching.” At the same time, Microsoft is probably very happy that the Xbox 360 got a mention, five years ago, the default ‘game console’ noun would have been ‘PlayStation’. |
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