Or they could talk to their kids and lay down guidelines in person.

You obviously don't have children.

Innovating.... Kinda.

Suck for the kiddos

the chocolate milk video is a must see if you havent seen it yet.

google 8 year old yells over chocolate milk.

i belive its on YOUtube

you will ROLMAO when you see it.

I'm definitely using this to screw with my roommates.

@Dakobah: But I don't wanna laugh your ass off.

My only concern is that the timer have some sort of warning at increments prior to shutting off the 360, so that people don't get screwed over inches from a save point, in the middle of saving, of in the middle of ranked matchmaking.

I could use this for myself, though. I'd know the password, of course, but at least it'd be another hoop to jump through to dissuade me from slacking.

oh to be in an online multiplayer game with some foul mouthed homophobic racist brat who gets his console switched off on him while in mid diarrhea of the mouth. Not only will he be pissed about not getting to play anymore of his M rated Haloz but everyone he was playing with will leave him negative player rep for quitting out early. Sweet Justice!!! to bad this cant be done for douche "adult" players who could use a time out on an MS level based on negative feed back.

Parent's don't this!!

You'll either get punched in the face or have a hit put out on you!!!

Neat feature. Great way to log how much you've been playing. I know some single adults that could benefit from this.

@bushwhacked:
You assume that because talking to your kids doesn't work? You're right. Maybe parenting is just too much to ask of a parent. An egg-timer is much more qualified.

Dedicated Servers? =(

@elevenoverzero: He's not assuming anything, he's making a statement based on what you said, which stupidly assumes that the child is not also being spoken too. Unless a child is comatose, they're going to end up doing shit you don't want. Why not put an automatic brick wall in their place, as a last resort?

Now they just need a choke/shock collar attached to USB or headphone jack that sends tiny packets of "love" to the Xbox Live wearer when profanity is detected... it's OK if its not "accurate"... consistent is fine.

I should buy this for myself whenever I fire up Puzzle Quest. Man is that thing a time suck.

most of the games on the 360 are not for kids, so why is this needed?

SO it begs the question, where the hell IS the fall update? its winter soon. At this rate, the spring update is gonna fall around august 08

My mum has an egg timer just like that, cept not shiny.

Man, all this talk of things going to be implemented into the next update is starting to make me wonder where the update is right now...

Fewer pre-pubescent voices whining and throwing tantrums over Live? Surely a good thing indeed.

This might save some moms and cops from getting punched in the face.

Easy to get past this one. Just set the password yourself when you download the update.

Oh no. Kids will yell at you for wasting any time at all. "Drive M****rf****r. I'm on the clock!"

Like I said before in an earlier post, I am getting this, enabling the timer, and as soon as it expires goodbye xbox360, hello real life.

@Moonshadow101:
Basically, if my parents set up automated killswitches on my stuff when I was growing up, I'd think they didn't trust me which would push me away from them. But I guess if don't want to take your fat kids outside into the real world on your own, an egg-timer will do your job for you.

I wonder how many girlfriends/wives are going to use this. :D

And here I thought RROD was kind of such timer. Playing too much? Get some rred coolness.

@Mayu-mayu: Now that they've started putting the new Falcon chips in there, there needs to be a new timer. :)

@Mayu-mayu: Usually I'm not much of a fan of the tired RROD jokes, but that was grade A stuff.

Kudos, sir.

While I think the parental control is a good thing for people who just CAN'T have the time to be over their children's doings (Work...and such)

I'd rather have my way dealing with them TALKING. It's a known fact that kids will make their will no matter what their parents or a machine say. So it's better just to socialize with them, and make them understand why it's not good for them spend hours and hours in front a of a TV playing games, and how non appropriate games will affect them.

But well... hell yeah, let the console work for us. :P

I dunno, I like the idea. I don't know many people (kids, especially) that pay attention to the clock when they are playing. I've stayed up too late myself many times. I see absolutely nothing wrong with setting a time limit (hell, I might have to do it for my husband so I can get the tv every now and then ^_^)

I hope this idea will at least reduce the number of kids with hairless balls playing halo3. =]

More kids punching their parents? "F**K MY GAME TIME RAN OUT *punch*

@bushwhacked: well, i had one hour limits way back when. i listened to them. pretty diligently actually. some parents are able to establish authority, others don't do such a great job at it. my parents definitely had authority.

Oh man, now im going to have to get my own chocalate milk.

Let's hope my wife never hears about this. I'll be doomed.

@elevenoverzero: nope the punch to the face of the parents or cops are more enjoyable to read about on this great site. LOL Talk is cheap

@JOHNE5 I will let her know right now, hehe.

As for my husband - this is going to be fun

IF i was still a kid i will not ask my parents for a 360 on Xmas...

lol