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The Entertainment Software Rating Board, which rates nearly every videogame that is released in the United States and Canada, has released a pie chart breaking down the percentage of 2010 games assigned each of its five major ratings.
Despite all the hubbub that videogames are nothing but violent, murder simulators, only 5% of the 1,638 games rated in 2010 were given a Mature rating. That works out to about 82 games in the full calendar year. The only rating to get less than that (other than Adults Only, which is almost never used) was Early Childhood.
In total, 95% of games (around 1,556) were deemed appropriate for teenagers, which is an incredibly large amount. Of course, limiting the audience to the 17+ crowd isn't necessarily a detriment for game makers -- Call of Duty: Black Ops was recently named the best-selling game of all time in the U.S. by the NPD Group, and that is a decidedly Mature-rated game. It has dominated sales charts here since it was released, although it might be an E-rated game -- Pokemon Black/White -- that tops it in March.

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