Live would lose about 90% of its paying customers, due to the age restriction.

Meh, If only =\

At least Xbox LIVE has Party Chat and I can just mute everyone on PSN. There are some really annoying kids out there.

But then the bots wouldn't be able to play :(
Their Mommy's $50 will go down the drain...

no!!!!! where would we get our crying kid videos now?

Bungie is that you in the picture ?

lol i see you haven't played on live for a wile most of the people ive met are over 18 or at least on gears of war 2 never tried halo anyways if you did play with a 15 year old he will probably own half of the psn users

i was playing gears 1 and this kid was very good. he was literaly 9 years old and had a 1.8 kd with 6k kills. he was as good as me i was baffled.

Chipmunks haha, either that or you get people who make their voice really deep & you have no idea what in the world they are saying. Why even bother using a headset if you are going to adjust how you sound lol? Shoot I'm still waiting for the Sean Connery/Clint Eastwood voice adapter. Imagine being able to sound like whomever you please lol, that would be a crazy online experience.

My fellow Sony gamers, it should be in the interests of all gamers to have not only an age requirement, but an intelligence requirement as well. The Xbox Live gaming community wouldn't be totally happy about it, as 99% of them lack both intelligence and the age factor. They would do everything in their power to prevent such things happening, but then again the chances of them doing so is the equivalent of a chimp doing advanced nuclear physics.

Sony Gamers Lead the Way!

No, I dont bother annoying voices, and Im sure compaining about it make you think that your "the cool big guy..."

It´s one of the negative aspects of including a headset in every console. But you can always mute them.

Age ratings won't change anything as other people have pointed out you can have 30+ gamers still acting like children online. Things will only improve when the service providers i.e Microsoft and Sony start taking complaints more seriously and when users take the time to report people.

I'm very certain that Xbox Live has a mute player function...

The question of the day is, why in the DAMN hell do people insist on complaining about retarded prepubescent Nazi children screaming in their ears instead of USING THAT FUNCTION?!?

Because they're retarded in their own-right???

I'd have to say no. Not all kids are immature little brats and not all adults are mature people who know how to act right. When I was younger I never said or did some of the things people do when playing online today. I just wish people would raise their kids right, then we wouldn't have to deal with stuff like this.

i swear the only ppl i ever heard when playing cod were kids who were obviously not old enough to play the game.

Just play Killzone 2.

Why? Because the kids who love CoD and Halo hate it because you HAVE to work as a team, you can't just go solo and expect to take the whole opposite team down, and it's about communication and tactics.

oh ok...

Lil kids screaming and cursing are definately ruining a lot of online enjoyment, but another group I hate are the fat @sses who have never gotten of their couches.

How do I know they a huge waste of space? Because they are sitting on their couch or chair playing a game, but they are so out of breath and breathing so heavy it sounds like they just finished running the boston marathon.

age is no guarantee of good behavior...unfortunately :-(

Now that Jim Ryan is gone just need to remove Herman Hulst from his position! And maybe give Shuhei the position he deserved.

This gen hasn't been the best for games, last gen consoles are still out there and now there's been talk of the PS6 and Xbox Two for a year or so. Many games this gen will be ported to next gen and the cycle will continue. The re-release of the Neo Geo AES+, games on cartridge for £70 ($95), gaming is going back in time. Gaming has gone pricing mad with the high cost of games, consoles and controllers. The men and women at the top are clueless.

It’s always interesting to hear behind-the-scenes stories like this, especially involving veterans like Shuhei Yoshida and leadership figures like Jim Ryan. That said, there are usually multiple sides to decisions at that level. It could be less about not “listening” and more about differences in long-term vision for PlayStation. Yoshida played a huge role in shaping the brand, so whatever the reason, his impact is undeniable.

If true, and I'm inclined to believe it is, it goes to show that Sony lost their way when they became more western/didn't respect the PlayStation origin story. Andrew House and Jack Tretton did great work, but they also didn't try to fundamentally change the PlayStation DNA. Ryan oversaw the death of Japan Studio and a live service direction.

I already figured this, good lord imagine if Shuhei took over instead, would've been a platinum era 😩

I miss the first three generations of PlayStation. The way they turned PS3 around, we knew they meant business. We were all worried for a bit there around launch. Eventually from 2008 they started shifting slowly. But since Yoshida was fired, it's never been the same. Still enjoy my PS5 daily. I got a backlog dating back to PS2 lol So I'm fine but new games aren't as appealing anymore.

It seems like we were thrown on to the worst timeline possible where everything is too expensive and the wrong people were put in positions that makes the world a shitty place. We could have had Shu as the head of PS but we got the shitty alternative. Same goes for everyone in power around the world. Doesn’t matter the company or country the majority of us got the shitty picks and the world is declining like never before. I do think PS can come out of this because of their studios, talent and IP but they need someone more in touch with gamers leading things like Shu was. They’re still the best place for console gaming imo but it could be much better than it is especially without the massive live service failures. The rest of the world I have a lot less hope for right now. Hopefully the pendulum swings back towards the good ole days but I’m preparing for the worst.

There goes illuminati distraction story

So now there's certifiable proof that Ryan was in fact "fired", as opposed to when it was first announced that he "retired", in order to save face.

There's another guy who recently "retired" as CEO of another large gaming company, after doing a dismantling job as lead for well over a decade.

seems legit, the business man, fires the one who has ideas to move the business forward.

Jim Ryan is the reason why we are entering year 6 since the PS5 launch and many of us don't feel like the PS5 has gotten started as yet.

I hope going forward, we will see a return to form.