Censoring in China

Since about the beginning of the 2000 era China has been banning video game consoles and games, a friend of mine from China told me that the only games that weren't banned were heavily monitored online pc games. Now just because they were banned didn't mean people weren't still finding a way to obtain them, he claimed that there were only two ways one could go about getting the consoles and games, they could look for them on the black market or go to Hong Kong. The first question I asked him was about the reasoning behind the Chinese government censoring games, now his response was that they wanted to keep out the western culture and have their people buy from their own market, I then went and read an article online that said the government was under pressure from parents that didn't want there kids to waste their lives away on such nonsensical thing items such as video game consoles.

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The funniest part of China banning consoles is that they are manufactured over there and sent out to the rest of the world! With the censoring of the consoles, gamers in China have been more PC oriented and thus they see a huge demand for PC games. Sony was able to get the government to sell there PSP with a very small selection on the games they sold. Is China ready to lift the ban on the consoles? well i guess we'll just have to wait and see.