Bonneswe

You posted this on a public forum, so you have to expect to see different sides of the same argument.

 
Yes, and I do appreciate your opinions.

I DO think it is up to parents to set rules, but I also see the need to sometimes have functionality to enforce them. Kids are kids (and not fully grown adults with "perfect" reason and self control) and they test boundaries all the time, and that is fine, but sometimes they need a helping hand to control/monitor themselves.

I am not for a complete control of my kids and what they do online/gaming, but since I let them have a large amount of freedom I don't want to run around and nag about their gaming time... For me, this functionality that I exampled above, would be a easy way of letting them handle this themselves rather than having us as parents watching over their shoulders all the time.

The functionality would of course also benefit those suffering with a video game addiction...

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Do you have kids?

I of course set up rules that they obey, but I also want them their selves to measure and handle their own play time to make them conscientious about how much time they spend on gaming...

As a parent with young kids (5 and 8) I need an instrument to restrict both the content and the actual use of the console in a smarter and a more flexible way than the way it works today.

I need at Parental control functionality where I can set the amount of time any of the users can play, daily, weekly and weekends. Where the games and all other applications can be set with general and/or specific rules WHEN they can be played or used.

All with the choice of multiple ways of combining game time with application/surfing time with amounts of time and at specific times of the day.

Some examples:
A. Games can be played for 7 h a week while Youtube can be watched for only 3 hours a week, but in addition to the game time.

B. Or for example USER #1 can use a specific application like Youtube between 3 and 4.30 pm and then again between 6 and 7 pm for at total of 2,5 h a day.
While User #2 can use it between 3 and 5 pm but only in total 2 hours a day

C. Or to have a weekly game time amount of 15 hours that the user can use between 4-7 pm weekdays or 8 am to 8 pm at weekends

If Nintendo would fix this and they would get all the family customers to the console!

 

Hi,

Family father with two boys, 8 and 4 1/2. Guiding them through gaming with our Wii U, they already running loops around me gaming wice... OK, not always.

 

I'm from Sweden, but lives in southern Spain for a couple of years.

 

Usually needs advice on games and sometimes on technical issues with older Wii accessories in combination with Wii U.

 

//BonneSwe