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HappySqurriel on 04 April 2007
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nintendo_fanboy said:

Here in Europe and especially in germany (not so much in switzerland) this killer-games thing has been a big issue during the last years, and this could increase with the wii. as far as i know, red steel can't be sold to people younger than 18 in germany and i think most of the wii-fps will experience the same.

If this gets a subject in the media, this could become a problem for nintendo, because casuals don't distinguish between the various consoles, which means that they call the wii "the new playstation" and they don't know about nintendos kiddie-image aswell.

but if this is only discussed by gamers, it could even help nintendo, because a big issue for nintendo here during the last two generations was their kiddie-image, which made it uncool to own nintendo-systems.


I thought that Europeans were generally very liberal about these things.

Anyway, I definitely think that nintendo would be hurt by mature games, such as GTA.  If they started fielding games like that, then parents wouldn't be buying their kids as many Wii's. 

 Nintendo purposefully excludes mature games from its lineup, so they have thought this out long before we have, friends.


I don't know where you got your information ...

Nintendo "Proper" (Nintendo's Japaneese first party developers) may not be interested in "Mature" titles but that doesn't mean Nintendo has ever excluded mature games; in fact Nintendo has published "Mature" titles and actively pursued these titles from third party publishers (how do you think Resident Evil ended up on the Gamecube).


Resident Evil is hardly mature.  RE has no sexual contentt, no "mature" situations, and hardly any graphic violence so calling it such seems preposterous.

I love arbitrary rules ...

 


This isn't arbitrary, and parents would hardly be upset over the content in the RE series, compared to their outrage over, say the GTA series, or the mortal combat series, both of which RE doesn't come close to matching.  Sorry, but shootin zombies just ain't that mature.


http://www.gamerdad.com/detail.cfm?itemID=2355 

"Resident Evil is one of the controversial classics that's appeared in newspapers, op-eds, and the speeches of Senators and even in the official opinions of Judges (where one hilariously referred to the series as "The Resident of Evil Creek"). And admittedly the series has been ground-breaking and frightening enough to generate a 2nd rate movie, a 3rd rate sequel to that movie, and a console game franchise that's actually much longer than the 4 in Resident Evil 4 implies."

Certainly, Resident Evil never generated the Press that Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto did but that is largely because it only pushed the boundry of acceptance that Doom created rather than breaking a boundry like GTA and Mortal Kombat did.