Will Nintendo Mature titles hurt them?

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koffieboon said:

 Actually it's very arbitrary, you and the US as a whole might have a specific definition for it, but that doesn't mean it also applies to other countries. For instance the US seems to have more problems with nudity/sex (hot coffee incident), yet have far less problems with violence (take the gunlaws in the US as an example).

US has so liberal gunlaws, so that you cant really compare statistics between countries that has more strict laws. For example, from a European (at least countries with a better welfare) point of view, US has much bigger problems with violence. You could say, that only Germany in Europe is opposing game violence, propably because of the small gaming audience compared to population. Most of the countries think that game violence is ok, if violent games are not sold to too young people. Because of people like Jack Thompson, public convensation about violence in games will not work. In Finland this conversation is getting in to right track again. Few years ago some instances tried to blame even the gaming media, propably for it to lose its credibility among people, but in mass media and magazines for parents, gaming has been raised as an hobby for whole family. By the way, Nintendo has usually done some censorhip of it own. For example Zombies and Mortal Kombat was censored from the worst violence.