How many M rated games are there for Wii, 360, & PS3?
My friend is in need of some help, So i'm gonna ask all my fellow buddies on here. Now my friend is writing a paper for college{which isnt due to the end of the summer} which it talks about video games. And he's at the point to mentioning the violent side of video games. However one problem is he doesnt know how many M rated video games there are for the Wii, 360, and PS3. So how many M rated video games are out there for these three consoles? Some info would be nice and upcoming games can be mentioned as well.
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I doubt anyone knows the exact number.... A metric shit ton is all I can say. It should also be noted that not all M rated games are violent.
I'm sure the ESRB website might be a good place to start.
Sony Playstation 2 + Playstation 3
The total of games for Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 is 2,434. There is one Early Childhood game for Playstation 2. This is also the only pair where both consoles are still receiving and selling new games.
Percent of Everyone rated games: 938/2434 * 100 = 38.54%
Percent of Everyone 10+ rated games: 214/2434 * 100 = 8.79%
Percent of Teen rated games: 867/2434 * 100 = 35.62%
Percent of Mature rated games: 359/2434 * 100 = 14.75%
Microsoft Xbox + Xbox 360
The total of games for Xbox and Xbox 360 is 1,818.
Percent of Everyone rated games: 645/1818 * 100 = 35.48%
Percent of Everyone 10+ rated games: 157/1818 * 100 = 8.64%
Percent of Teen rated games: 605/1818 * 100 = 33.28%
Percent of Mature rated games: 320/1818 * 100 = 17.6%
Nintendo GameCube + Wii
The total of games for GameCube and Wii is 1,707. The GameCube has one Early Childhood game and the Wii has one also. These ratings do not take into account the downloadable N64, NES, and SNES games.
Percent of Everyone rated games: 1010/1707 * 100 = 59.17%
Percent of Everyone 10+ rated games: 229/1707 * 100 = 13.41%
Percent of Teen rated games: 368/1707 * 100 = 21.56%
Percent of Mature rated games: 73/1707 * 100 = 4.28%
Here's the link it's from:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Gamers/Consoles/A_1077-Choosing-the-best-console.html
EDIT:
It's about a year old though, so take that into consideration.
Looking at his sources, he basically only uses the official ESRB site, located here:
http://www.esrb.org/index-js.jsp
Then just choose a platform and a rating and search, it'll say how many results it returned, which should be the number of games for that platform with that rating.
foul language: the only way for a game to get an M rating for foul language is through an extreme amount foul language or the usage of the F-bomb... in the case of a game where there is enough foul language to justify an M rating it is almost always coming from the mouth of a violent person... the other option is the usage of the F-bomb which is in itself an EXTREMELY violent word for a certain act... so I guess what i'm saying is that anything rated M for foul language could also be considered violent because of the nature of foul language
sex: there are simply very few games that are released outside japan that involve enough sex to make a game M rated, but little enough to keep it from an AO rating... if you have a game thats rated M for sexual situations then there is also generally foul language or violence
example: the GTA hot coffee mod, the mod wasn't even present in the main finished game, a person had to mod the disk to even access the content but the second it was found to exist it was changed from an M rating to an AO rating
so your friend can easily use the numbers of M rated games in existence to back up his paper purely because the inherent nature of the M rating is to include some sort of violence, even if it's not obvious