75% of parents surveyed in the UK, France, Italy, and Germany are concerned about the content of video games played by their children.

Also discovered was that 64% of children play games alone, 12% play with friends, but less then 1 in 10 play with family members.

Parents judged themselves as the key decision makers when it came to purchasing a game, not retailers, or the industry itself. You must question, then, why parents are so concerned about the content of their children’s game when they are the ones deciding what they play.

Staggeringly, 43% of parents covered by the research were unaware that games even had age ratings to suggest suitability. Aside from the fact that the controversial banning of Manhunt 2 by the BBFC, those responsible for these ratings, has been in the headlines regularly over the past months, these ratings are on the box of every game purchased.

It makes you question just how “concerned” these parents are when they can’t be bothered to read two (or less) numbers off a box’s cover before handing it to their children.

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