Sony ramping up censoring of Japanese games, now forcing all Japanese games to go through Western content inspections

[Aura7541]

pokoko said:

Aura7541 said:
And the thing is that these games were approved by the ESRB, CERO, and so forth. If Sony gets to dictate what can go on their platform because of their personal feelings, then what's the point of rating boards in the first place? You know, their function is to determine if a game's content can be legally shown or not.

I can't speak for anywhere else but the ESRB has nothing to do with if a game's content can be legally shown.  It's an arbitrary, self-regulatory system, not a government system.  

Regardless, the ESRB's function is to determine if the game's content is okay to be shown or not. In addition, what you said is only partially true. In Canada, the government enforces ESRB ratings in a handful of its provinces.