Parental controls on Xbox 360

[Nato King]

To all those parents out there not to worry The Xbox 360 will feature a parental locking system that can be used to prevent children from accessing games unsuitable for their age range, according to Japanese website Mainichi. Parents will be able to set-up the console so it will only play games with appropriate age ratings. When users attempt to load a game, the machine will read data from the disk to determine whether it falls into the correct category. In addition, parents will be able to programme the 360 to restrict children's access to online chatrooms. The Mainichi article states that the new features, which have never been included in a games console before, will be built-in to US and European machines as well as Japanese units. There has recently been a storm of controversy in Japan surrounding Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto, before even the Hot Coffee scandal emerged.

[Variation-XBA]

Nice feature, but parents won't make much use of it. Xbox already has this to an extent as well.

[Nato King]

Nice feature, but parents won't make much use of it. Xbox already has this to an extent as well.

Ya I know what you mean because I have some parents who can't even turn on an xbox don't know what a halo case looks like. lol

[m4oH]

yeah the xbox has a parental lock however it doesn't really matter because my dad can only figure out how to open/close the disc tray and turn on/off the power.