ESRB officially comments on PSP Manhunt 2 hack

[Phalanx]

Sqrl said:

Phalanx said:
I love how Jack is already claiming that this proves R* and the ESRB conspired to put this content into the game and that the ESRB will soon be destroyed.

Hey at leastJack and I have common ground, we both think they should be destroyed =)

Here's the problem with that:  Who would take over?

One of the users over at GP put it best:

 Dave Says:
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:55 pm

Has anybody ever thought what would happen if the ESRB shut down? First would be that there would be NO new games on the market till an alternative is accepted by the masses. Stores (like walmart) won’t stock games listed AO, they can’t sell any game if there is NO rating system for risk of selling a mature game to 10yrs olds. Then somebody would have to form a new group. The game industry will NOT stand by to one run by a watchdog group so it would have to be run by the govt. That would take AGES to set up and get running. In the mean time, no new games on the market as there would be no ratings since the esrb will be disbanded. You really think MS, Sony and Nintendo would put up with that? No force in the world would stop the lawyers combined by those three.

 

That's not something I want to see happen.