Parents: the new PlayStation Family App is out, and there are excellent opportunities for inter-family trolling

Sony has released a new PlayStation Family App on iOS and Android, giving you more – and more immediate – control over a number of aspects of your child’s gaming.

What catches my eye is the ability to manage how much time a child is spending on their PlayStation machine, and to do it dynamically. This means your child has a time balance per day to play, which you can up or down whenever you wish, and you can see how much they have used in real-time. They can even pitch you for more playtime via the app, so you don’t even need to talk to them! You need only approve or decline.

Also useful: real-time notifications that show what they’re playing, spending controls, customisable content filtering, and managing access to social features. And graphs, which are always useful, I think.

“We’re excited to bring an easy way for parents to manage their children’s gaming directly from their mobile devices,” said Sony on the PlayStation Blog. “This is just the beginning with our new mobile app – we’ll plan to continue adding enhancements to the PlayStation Family app to evolve the experience over time.”

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