New Parental Controls Limit Xbox Time

by Jordan Yerman | November 8, 2007 at 05:41 am
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Not content with merely owning the Halo franchise, Xbox is inching into family-friendly territory

As part of a new marketing blitz to promote the Xbox 360 as a "family friendly" video game console, Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a new feature called Family Timer, which will show up in the Family Settings Screen.

The Timer will let parents limit the number of hours their kids can play the Xbox on a daily or weekly basis. When the time limit is reached, the console will automatically shut off, ostensibly after saving the game.

It's a usefull selling point, but a box cannot "encourage parents to talk with their kids about 'screen time'"; parents kinda have to do that themselves.

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Rob Walker
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at 06:03 on November 8th, 2007

Oh, I think it would encourage parents and kids to talk about screen time more. But it would probably go like this:

"Mooooooom, let me play more!" 

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