Which studios do you think Sony gonna acquire?

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Bristow9091 said:

Liquid_faction said:

How doesn't it make sense? Did I jump into a portal to another world where Sony doesn't have the anal censorship attitude they've been having lately? Is there something in their clause that says that only 3rd party games can be censored, and not 1st party games? Was it all a dream?!?!

Level 5 make JRPGs, a few of them being exclusive to PlayStation, yet none of their game have anything that needs censoring... why shouldn't Sony touch them, given the opportunity? 

My point is, with Sony's hand so close to the trigger, I don't want them touching Japanese Studios yet, especially one's that are third party. We don't know how far they'll take it, and down the line if one of my favorite studios gets bought, and their policy gets stricter, games will suffer because of it.

Barkley said:

Liquid_faction said:

My pick is Bluepoint like the majority, I would have wanted them to buy out a Japanese company like Media.Vision, like someone said or Falcom, but with their stick up the ass censorship "for the kids" attitude, I'd rather not let them touch any JRPG studio.

I'm unaware of any game by Falcom or Media Vision that has been censored. In fact the vast majority of games hit by the recent crackdown are Visual Novels. From what I can see the only JRPG's affected are the following:

Omega Labyrinth Z
Brave Neptunia/Super Neptunia RPG
(Omega) Labyrinth Life
Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris

The vast majority of JRPG's are not affected, no need to blow it out of proportion. Persona, Final Fantasy, YS, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, Ni No Kuni, Tales of... like most JRPG's the big series are unaffected.

Of course, I'm aware that 98% of JRPGs have nothing to censor, but I'm not worried about the present, I'm talking about how far they'll keep tightening their policy to protect children in the future. If we look at the list now, it's tiny, but we don't know how much that'll grow over time. Take into account that Sony Officials don't know about ESRB ratings and that shooting a man in cold blood is way better than "Durr Hurr Naked anime girl." I just don't feel comfortable giving a studio that could potentially still release their games, unrestricted, to Nintendo or Steam platforms. (Also I know about 18+ the VN stuff *wink* *wink* getting censored, don't really care about that, but NO PILLOW TALK IN AN SAO GAME IS A NATIONAL TRAGEDY!)