You really think laws like this will stop minors from playing those games?
i just lol’d. hard.
Again, you already have a system in place to deal with this. Why not work with that existing system instead?
What this will do, however, is make it more expensive to make the game because a special box will have to be made just for the state of California. Such a cost increase will be passed to EVERY customer in EVERY state. Gee thanks.
And why do we care? Because stupid stuff like this is how more excessive bans start. It’s the foot in the door that politicians need. America is a unique in that our government bans very few games while other countries routinely ban games entirely for “high impact violence” or force developers to release watered down versions just for their country. Nonsense and unneeded laws like this is how it’ll start here.
Also worth noting, video games are considered protected speech under the 1st Amendment. Allowing a state to restrict free speech, even a vague form like this, would be an enormous blow to it from the standpoint of precedent.