Sony helping parents with Safe Gaming - Nice Start, What's Next?

Sony has launched a web site - http://www.ps-playsafeonline.com/ - to encourage safe gaming for kids in many countries. The site is targeted as parents about appropriate gaming as well as helping with reporting problems if they occur. The site supports many countries and I didn't see a section for the US.

This is great and, hopefully, Sony will follow up with an extended campaign to increase awareness of the site and its tools.

What would be even better would be if game industry leaders would cooperate to create a sustained campaign to educate parents and kids about safe gaming and providing tools to deal with problems. Pretty much every company has launched one of these campaigns over the years. What has happened previously as that companies launch these programs and don't support them.

Do you remember Microsoft's PlaySmart or NCSoft's PlaySmart programs?

I devote a chapter to Protecting Kids in my book Protecting Games.



L. Plunkett (2009), "Sony Promoting Safe Online Play With Handy Website", http://kotaku.com/5433385/sony-promoting-safe-online-play-with-handy-website