The US Supreme Court rules against California, gamers rejoice!

[theRepublic]

Onyxmeth said:
From what I gather from these proceedings, the government was trying to basically stop children from buying M rated games, which they're not supposed to be buying anyways, and was going to fine places that sold them to children? What have we really gained from that, and what would we have lost? If anything this decision takes the parents out of the equation, because they no longer get to be the facilitator to purchase a game for their teenager or preteen. The kids can now buy it themselves.

All that this ruling did was get the government out of performing censorship.  (They never really did, since this law never went into effect.)  This ruling does not prevent private entities from enforcing ratings.  The ESRB will still rate games, and its retail members will still enforce the policies.  This means that minors will still not be able to purchase M rated games from Best Buy, Gamestop, Kmart, Target, or Walmart.