| Acevil said: While it is my favorite indie game to date, I think you can say it is done in poor taste and really Nintendo and Microsoft who want to reflect some what of having some "family values" should most likely avoid, unless they believe that this will go so under the radar that no "family" organization will pick it up. Note I excluded Sony, because they seem to be going after the core gaming demographic and can take a risk with this, since the casual family demographic seems to be in large not that responsive to them. |
I totally agree with the poor taste part.
For bold, that's the thing that gets me. If these guys (Ninty and MS) want to become #1, they need to cater to all demographics, and just ensure that the ESRB does its job right. It's not because SMeatB is on your plat that the plat is not geared to families anymore. They need to think of their platforms a bit like a movie player. It plays everything, not just games geared to their target audience, but games geared to their target audience + Everyone else.
That's what a #1 manufacturer does.
Tbh, I don't think mature vs family is the reasoning here (if it does I am dissappoint in Nint). I think it was more due to anti-religious tones that Nintendo doesn't want on their platform. As Viper said a rape game wouldn't go too far either. There's a happy medium between
- audience-only (just what my customers want) content support,
- Movie-like (mostly all accepted, safe blacklisted movies) content support and
- Internet-like (practically anything and everything) content support.
