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Peter Moore Challenges Barack Obama
EA Sports boss Peter Moore has challenged US president Barack Obama, who said recently that kids should be spending more time outside exercising instead of playing games, to try EA Sports Active.
Speaking on health care reform last week at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, Obama said: "It means going for a run or hitting the gym, and raising our children to step away from the videogames and spend more time playing outside."
Defending the game business and promoting the company’s recently released exercise title EA Sports Active, Moore responded: “Of course, I can’t resist pointing out that while I’ve always wholeheartedly endorsed moderation in anything you do, including playing games, it may be time for the president and his family to put their Wii to good use and fire up the 30-day challenge with EA Sports Active.
“You’ve heard me say it so many times before, but it’s refreshing to see the opportunities we have now on the Wii and what some of the new motion control technologies in development at Microsoft and Sony may bring to enhance an at-home fitness experience like EA Sports Active,” he added. “In fact, I’d be willing to bet there are more consoles getting far more use in American homes than there is exercise equipment, so it’s up to us to continue to use the platform for good.”
EA Sports Active launched on May 19, and EA announced at E3 earlier this month that it had sold 600,000 copies in its first two weeks of availability. An expansion pack is currently in development and will be available this holiday.
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Sorry video game fools, kids DO need to step away from the video games and computers. These kids nowadays have ZERO social skills because there only interaction with people is through MySpace or Facebook. Lets not stop there, some of YOU need to step away from the video games yourselves.....
And what would you have them do instead?
For someone so quick to point out a problem, you obviously have a solution.
If you're any indication of the social skills that people who don't play video games possess, then hand me that controller.
Sorry but kids should be spending more time outside and no spending all day in front of the TV even if a portion of it includes playing some sort of more active video game.
This can only end in embarassment for the video game industry.
"kids should be spending more time outside exercising instead of playing games"
Simple. Purchase an extension lead that will allow you to position both the television and console out in the garden.
Problem solved.
Best. Suggestion. Ever.
I'm going to have to side with Peter on this one. Although he was really kept his statements clean & political. This was a statement involving an overhaul about how we handle health-care in the U.S. He could have said all kinds of things.
Like how one of the richest countries on Earth is suggesting that the answer to health-care is exercise; so we won't need health-care anymore. Yeah, right; sweat off leukemia. Child...heal thyself. This sounds like when my insurance company told me "laughter is the best medicine".
He could also make an argument as to why a country, with clear protocols involving a separation of church & state, has allowed recent religious lobbying to create a repressed society, skyrocketing violent crime; and leading to a world too dangerous for children to play outside.
Besides, these were things he promised to fix - insurance companies & special interest groups. Obama's attacking video games?....Come on! One of the only profitable industries we have left? I didn't vote for him so I could "pat myself on the back" for electing a black president. He had specific plans, now get on with it.
I agree that everyone needs to spend more time outside, but, you're right, there really is no need to single out video games as the one activity that people need to spend less time on--though, to be certain, for many, it likely is the one activity they need to spend less time on.
He could also make an argument as to why a country, with clear protocols involving a separation of church & state, has allowed recent religious lobbying to create a repressed society, skyrocketing violent crime; and leading to a world too dangerous for children to play outside.
What exactly are you referring to here?
He had specific plans
I believe that.
Indeed.
I did get a little rantingly vague there.
I'm referring to special interest groups, in general, that he promised to attack, but not a specific recent action. It all started in the 1920's with the Temperance Movement. It continued with Jewish black-listing in the 1950's veiled as anti-communism - which would have still been ridiculous. There was the Haight's Dominance - couples sleeping in separate beds in the media. Of course, anti-abortion, improper sex education, & the War on Drugs.
All these programs were started by vocal, rich, religious lobby groups. Every one of these programs were thought to be bad politics in the general law-making congress, but throw enough money around and you know. Making these normal activities illegal makes invites a criminal society. This is how I feel. Although I'm not at all alone, no one has made any true research in the field; so I won't make any more comments on it - it would certainly degenerate & do nothing, but now you know where the rant came from.
More constructively speaking, we do have a very high violent child-crime rate in the U.S. It's much higher than many other countries, & these crimes are as such that children simply can not play outside anymore unsupervised. Unless we can all start watching our kids all day long while they play; they're basically stuck inside for most of the afternoon.
Before Obama starts bashing video games, he needs to realize that most children don't have his 30-person detail watching them at all times. He needs to change the environment outside, before telling parents to send their children out there.
I'd agree that these programs were started by vocal, rich religious lobby groups, but I'd say they were on the opposite of the abortion issue that you put them on.
I have to say I respect your viewpoint. The more people with open minds we have out there, the people who recognize the shit that's really going on the better.
I totally agree with your view on safety for children outside. I have a 9y/o, 3y/o, and 8m/o and if my 9 y/o wants to play outside he has to do so right out in front of my house. I don't trust other kids or adults for that matter.