So you would think that with all the hub-bub about mature video games that they would have to be the largest percentage or rated games. Or at least a high percentage. Cause it would be strange if all this noise was for a minority of rated games…

Yeah, well not exactly. Kotaku brings us a note about the games that were rated in 07. Guess what percentage OF ALL GAMES did mature titles encompass? 7%. Wow.

Kotaku puts it thusly:

“For as violent a reputation as has been bestowed upon the video game industry, ‘M’ rated games only make a small percentage of their total numbers and, according to the ESRB, this small percentage is actually down 50% since 2005. Back then, 12% of titles were rated M. And in 2006, that figure was already down to 8%. In 2007, a year in which the ESRB rated 1,563 games, ‘M’ rated games only accounted for 6% of the titles.”

So the number of mature games has decreased in the last 2 years. Yet the number of goobers who keep making a big deal of mature rated titles are neglecting to mention the content of the other 94% of ESRB rated games. This includes T rated games, which sometimes can contain rather mature content….Hmm…

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