Last Thursday, President Barack Obama spoke about the importance of encouraging children to ‘put away the Xbox’ in a speech celebrating the 1ooth anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).
To enforce some context, here is how he said it:
“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…”
Microsoft have responded to this and took the opportunity to boast about the parental support that is offered by their console. This is what they had to say:
“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.”
It seems that all parties are happy and with Obama recognising gaming and taking a sensible approach (highlighting the parents responsibility and not just blaming Rockstar) will only help the industry in the long run.
Source: Game Politics
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