China Reverses Game Console Ban as Publishers Await New Rules
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China reversed course on a nationwide ban of video-game consoles, implemented in 2000 to protect youths from perceived corrupting influence, as it drafts new rules governing sales of the machines.
China’s ruling State Council temporarily suspended the ban and may allow consoles to be made in the Shanghai free-trade zone, it said in a statement Jan. 6. Hardware manufacturers such as Nintendo Co., Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. could benefit from entering a $10 billion market dominated by online and personal computer games.