Games do not teach you to kill. Games do not teach you to be a merciless killing machine. There is a very real difference between shooting off of screen and reloading in real life. There is a very different feel between a gun that doesn’t move and a gun that has recoil due to gunpowder. On screens when people die you hear a scream and see their body fall. In a game when someone dies you see their face in fear, their blood spill on the ground, people panic, you can smell the gun powder, you can even see their face after you leave the area.

It takes a normal person to play a game where you kill someone. People used to do it 80+ years ago. It was called Cowboys and Indians where kids used guns with bottle caps that had smoke and a loud bang. They would take BB guns and shoot stuff in order to improve their aim. While a normal person can pretend to shoot people, it takes an abnormal person to be able to do it easily. These are people that would have been affected by anything. They are affected by the media, my t.v. shows, movies, books, music, games, plays, or anything else.

Murder didn’t start when video games featured shooting, as no one really complained about it back when the light gun was released for the NES. It did not increase when games started to have more and more violence. What caused crimes to go up as they have, are when the parents stopped loving, caring for, and treating their kids with respect (or in some cases when parents stopped beating their children for obedience) The face of parenting has changed drastically and that’s caused terrible problems within the children’s behaviors.

There are many people who instead of going out and starting fights and commiting crimes they go home and play games to forget about their ills and to relax. Right now there are prisons who use GTA games as a reward. When criminals are on their best behavior they are rewarded by GTA gameplay. When you analyze what happened to the criminal’s behavior in prison, most of the prisons saw major drops in behavioral problems of the inmates.

In other words, anything can be productive if used in a productive way with an individual more likely to be productive. Things like videos and games can be destructive in much more rare circumstances where anything could have triggered the violence. Sick people will do sick things. Don’t blame it on an inanimate object.

PS3 came late 2006 so let’s say Sony gave them the tools in 2006; 2006 + 4 = 2010 but then making a game for PS3 hardware is tough plus they’ll probably want to fill the Blu-Ray with stuff (so it’ll be a huge game that’ll needs lots of polish) so another year for those hurdles to be jumped gets us to 2011.