"You're Just As Violent As Video Games", Says EA CEO...

[Gikoku Harakami]

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Electronic Arts CEO

Originally Posted by MCV News

John Riccitiello defends interactive entertainment to Royal Television Society

Chief executive of Electronic Arts John Riccitiello has told some of the most powerful luminaries in television that games are no more violent a media than TV programmes, MCV reports

Speaking in a presentation to the Royal Television Society's Cambridge Convention, Riccitiello said video games were ‘unfairly demonised’ in the press for their violent content.

According to Broadcast magazine, he showed violent clips from TV programmes such as 24 and CSI and films including Kill Bill and 300, before comparing them with segments from such as Grand Theft Auto.

He protested that the games industry has acted responsibly to protect children from seeing adult material – citing measures such as parental blocking mechanisms on consoles.

Riccitiello said TV and games appealed to similar demographics, but that the two experiences were markedly different.

"With video games, I can be on the edge of my seat immersed in them, but TV is storytelling - I'm lying back and it comes to me," he said.

[Dark Drakan]

He has made an excellent point and one that we have all said and agreed with before. Good for him to finally get that thrown into the debate.

[Angel]

That is a good point - games hardware manufacturers have gone to lengths to ensure that parents have a decent amount of control over how a child uses their consoles. I don't see TV coming up with anything like that...

[§ephiroxa§]

well done, WELL done. Good for him.

[Dark Drakan]

Good thing is, his comments were straight at the TV bigshots so they didnt have to settle for a diluted statement by them.

[Albion Knight]

In a lot of ways video games are ahead of other media with the parental blocking as mentioned. But aslo you can lower the amount of gore in some games. It would be good if that aspect was worked into more games as far as I'm concerned.

[RuneMaster]

Im glad he said it. Finally a story Im happy to read.

[Dark Drakan]

Originally Posted by Albion Knight

In a lot of ways video games are ahead of other media with the parental blocking as mentioned. But aslo you can lower the amount of gore in some games. It would be good if that aspect was worked into more games as far as I'm concerned.

Exactly you have parental locks on consoles and can turn blood off in most games, thats more in two options than TV has ever done.

[Tsuyu]

It's gonna be a cold day in Hell before someone decides to shoot two sets of scenes for a movie, bloody and non-bloody!

I don't think that would be very... economical.

[Albion Knight]

The do edit content for television on occasion but then you lose part of the story sometimes and important part.... or the best part

[Tsuyu]

Something like this?

300 - The PG Remix*Video

[Albion Knight]

Exactly

[Gikoku Harakami]

Originally Posted by Dark Drakan

Exactly you have parental locks on consoles and can turn blood off in most games, thats more in two options than TV has ever done.

Actually, over here for cable service (and maybe Satellite service, i'm not sure) you can put parental locks on any channel you want, you can even set timer blocks for the channels, so say you want to have this certain channel like Comedy Central to be password protected after 8pm everynight, you have the option for that. So yeah, the world of TV is taking just as many steps as the world of video games towards Parental control, maybe not in every region of the world, but it's been like that for the cable service over here for over 5 years now.

However, TV still lacks in the function to turn off gore effects in my favorite shows.

[FableFreak]

He gets a ,

and a ,

and a ...

[Frostmourne]

This guy could be the master chief of our world, and Jack Thompson is the covenant