Feedback -- Kinect Edition

HeatherC19

Every time G4 does a spot on any specific company's peripheral there are people crying about how G4 is biased to one company or another and honestly its BS. They aren't biased, they talk about what has the most buzz at the time, PS Move honestly did not have much buzz. I didn't even know it was out until someone mentioned it to me, and I have not seen it shown off in stores nor have I seen commercials, it was just there one day- no buzz or word of mouth at all, even with my sony freak buddies hanging around.

Kinect, whether its real word of mouth or just great marketing, has a lot of buzz surrounding it. G4 is of course going to spotlight the thing which has the most attention on it so that they can capitalize on that as a company. Why talk about something that nobody else cares about? As far as them saying there are tons of flaws with the Move, I think they were fair about noting the Kinect's flaws too, like how it reads another person and wont sync back to one person and thus is bad for areas like living rooms if you have a lot of people living in your house, or common areas if you're in college. That is a pretty big flaw if you ask me, and I am sure as time goes on and they use Kinect more (just like they have had more time to use the Move) they will find more and more flaws and tell us all about them.

Anyways, the thing that I'm really aiming to talk about is the supreme court case. I have watched all the provided material on this and I am finding it ridiculous. I am 20 and I get carded for M rated games at any major game retailer or supermarket that carries games. How are these games getting to kids? Because in my experience retailers honestly are not selling them to anyone who looks remotely young. If the law doesn't prevent parents from buying the games for their kids -which seems to be how the kids are getting them anyways- and if kids are already not allowed to buy the games, then what does this law change if it is enacted? I mean, I understand the bad implications it has, but if we just look at the "positive" bits, the part that they are trying to use to "sell" the law, what would it change?

Kids already can't buy them, and parents continue to shovel their kids full of god of war, halo, etc so it would change absolutely nothing. Game stores wont get in trouble because in most cases having a parent present, seeing the kid get the game and purchase it, is "consent". Besides the addition of a sticker that says "18" and the raising of the limit from 17 to 18 for M rated games, this doesn't seem like it would do any good to me. It can only cause harm, honestly. The only things that could come out of it are bad things, like over-regulation and overzealousness on the whole issue. it's a slippery slope, and one that there is literally no benefit to walking on.