Best Buy’s New Ratings Threaten ESRB

In a follow up to the news posted last week about Best Buy and Common Sense Media, GamePolitics has an article detailing how Best Buy’s deal with Common Sense Media could be damaging to the current ESRB rating system. Best Buy intends to list CSM rating along with the ESRB ratings already in use. This is just another example of retailer’s fading confidence in the established system. ESRB has come under scrutiny in Sen. Sam Brownback’s Truth in Video Game Ratings Act and Rep. Fred Upton’s Video Game Decency Act .

It seems that the ESBR is finally getting the attention it deserves. One can always hope we will see some changes in the often ineffectual ratings system.