Xbox educating parents?
I still think it is a bit disturbing…. oh yes – I do agree with Mr. Neil Thompson (Director of Xbox UK)….; â€Kids’ guardians still don’t realize that Xbox 360 and other consoles aren’t toysâ€.
But every time I see this topic showing up – I am missing a big part of the whole problem; guardians and parents should NEVER forgot that THEY should raise the kids.
And it is not (and it will never be) the job of the school. And the parent should know what toys their kids are playing with. And the parents should know what a game system is capable of…..; the bad side and the good side!
Probably the gaming industry has a role in this…. but to me it seems like we are making the role of the parents smaller and smaller….
And uh… the question “is a gaming console a toy?â€â€¦â€¦
Do you really think that items which costs a couple of hundreds of euros/dollars should be considered toys…??
On the chance of sounding old “as a kid I never had that kind of EXPENSIVE toysâ€â€¦..
(and yep; I do own a Xbox 360 – but I am not a kid AND I do not consider it to be “just a toyâ€â€¦.)
Source;
MSVUK.com (Microsoft: We must educate parents)
Joystiq.com (Microsoft exec feels parents need to recognize consoles aren’t ‘toys’)
I guess it would depend on your definition of toy. I play video games for entertainment purposes, and well, that is what a gaming console is for, is it not? It is different from a computer even, because a computer has multiple purposes, whereas a gaming console is just that, a gaming console. Granted, most now adays have dvd players as well, but that’s just a bonus added because they use those discs to play the games too.
I don’t know that I would consider it a “toy,” but I think it is certainly in relationship to one in some ways. As far as price, there are plenty of real, non-questionable toys that cost hundreds of dollars. Toy trains, for example, can be incredibly costly.
Interesting post. Keep it up!
Thank you for posting that.