Supreme Court to decide hte future of Video Games

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Originally Posted by Clickme

Yes but YOU miss the point that Walmart is less likely to stock a game when there's a $1,000 fine on the line. They don't get fined for selling an M-game to a minor, but with this law, they WILL get fined if they are accused of sellign a V-game to a minor. IT becomes a liability at that point. Good and Logical business sense is to simply not stock said game type and therefore AVOID the issue altogether.

That's where the snowball effect starts. Less places selling that game means less money, less money means making different games to keep making money.

If that's true, why do grocery stores (in jurisdictions where that's legal) stock beer? Why do convenience stores sell cigarettes? Because the profit outweighs the potential cost in fines and loss of license. This would be no different. Offending games would under this legislation require a special package sticker. With the sticker in place, I don't see why Wal-Mart would have a problem selling the games.

The funnier part of this argument is that most large retailers have already instituted policies mimicking just this sort of trade-off where they trade the profits of game sales to people under 17 with good PR with parents.

If you want to attack the legislation, attack it due to its vagueness, poor wording and lack of any labeling authority. It really is badly written and deserves all the criticism it gets.