Hey that's not bad. I thought it would be 100%. Well done retailers.

Reminds me of http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Nympho&btnG=Search

The retailers are an idiots. They have no rights and I hope the law is getting stricter and do something about it.

M for Mature means it's meant for people 17+. You're still a minor until you're 18 (in most situations, at any rate, for the basic definition of the term "minor"). So, theoretically, it's possible, though not likely, that the lion's share of that 46% figure is made up of 17 years olds that, technically, are still minors, but meet the requirements for the game's rating.



This statistic is meaningless without more detail and without any kind of confidence band. Anyone could say that 90% of retailers are selling to 5 year olds, but if the confidence in that figure is 0%, it's completely meaningless.

I was going to say the exact same thing, Vipre77. This statistic is completely worthless without it breaking down what age groups they sold M rated games to since 17 years olds are old enough to buy the game, yet are still a minor. I'd like to give a big F U to the company behind this statistic. All they're doing is playing around with numbers to try and make retailers look bad.

but the ESRB ratings arent law. its actually legal to sell an m rated game to a 5 year old. its 100% voluntary. im not saying m rated games should be sold to five year olds. im just saying its legal.