| Wii and PS3 launch games to be banned in Germany? |
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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Monday, 11 December 2006 | |
  
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In 2003 German rules were amended to reduce violence depicted in games, such as blood spurts and similar. This has resulted in some titles sporting a German and "everybody else" version system. The proposed amendment to this legislation is to expand this ban to all violence depicting human or human looking protagonists. Doing a quick mental catalogue in my head, this would reduce the stock of video game outlets by a large percentage. The report goes on to state "A poll taken after last month's shooting at a secondary school in Emsdetten showed 72 per cent of respondents blaming such incidents on violent games and 59 per cent supporting a ban". At this point I am yet to see scientific proof to provide the link, but as we all know, politics is by in large, not a scientific pursuit. It is more about being on the right side (read Popular side) of polls like the one quoted above. {moscomment} |
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