CHINA CONSIDERING END TO 13-YEAR BAN ON VIDEO GAME

SHANGHAI, Mon Jan 28, 2013 - China suppliers is considering raising a decade-long ban on games systems, the formal China suppliers Everyday magazine revealed on Thursday, delivering stocks of major components creators such as Sony models Corp and Manufacturers Co Ltd rising.

In Nov, Sony’s PlayStation 3 received a quality qualifications from a China safety requirements body, forcing rumours that China would raise the ban, which the government said was enforced in 2000 to protect kid's mental and physical development.

“We are examining the policy and have performed some surveys and held conversations with other ministries on the possibility of opening up the gaming system industry,” the China suppliers Everyday estimated an un-named source from the Secretary of state for Culture as saying.

“However, since the ban was from seven ministries more than a several years ago, we will need approval from all parties to raise it.”

An formal at the ministry’s social industry department, which is responsible for the regulation, declined the review.

“The ministry is not considering raising the ban,” the formal, who determined himself only as Bai, told Reuters.

In Seattle, Sony models stocks exchanged 8 % higher while Manufacturers obtained over 3.5 %, outperforming a generally sluggish Nikkei index.

Yoshiko Uchiyama, a speaker for Sony models Computer Enjoyment, a unit of Sony models, said she could not opinion directly on the review.

“Our position towards company in China suppliers has not changed. Of course, we recognize China suppliers as a appealing industry for our company, and we are always considering and preparing businesses and possibilities (in the country),” she said.

A Manufacturers spokesperson dropped to opinion.

Earlier goes suggest China regulators are ready to take a smoother line on gaming systems.

Last year, Lenovo Group Ltd released the Eedoo CT510, a motion realizing device similar in concept to Microsoft Corp’s Xbox xbox 360 kinect expansion for its Xbox gaming system. Lenovo promoted the Eedoo as an “exercise and entertainment machine”.

Video gaming systems are prohibited in China suppliers, but on the internet and doing offers on mobile phone devices are both extremely common, which experts say limits the potential benefit for Sony models and competing activity machine creators.