Will Nintendo Mature titles hurt them?

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Mnementh said:

fooflexible said:

EDIT: btw I'm only talking about the US being that I have no idea how Europe will react to this stuff. But if Germany didn't release games like Godfather, what about other shooters? That's half the 360 lineup, do they not get GTA, Saint's Row, Scarface, Crackdown, and others?

GTA is available here in germany (age 16+). The game I know has problems here is 'Gears of wars', it's on the index of the BPjM (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien). That means it is not allowed to advertise the game, that includes openly showing it in a shop. So most shops dont sell indexed games. Some magazines even tell the name, if they publish for instance NPD-numbers of games. If you look at: http://www.gfdata.de/archiv03-2007-gamefront/2874.html This are the NPD-number for february, under software is left out the name of the game placed 6th.

 That really looks stupid, I would only get curious what game was sixth there and with that it would only get extra attention instead of less.