"Someone stupid at MS is probably equating the PEGI 18 rating with the AO rating in the US"

[HappySqurriel]

RolStoppable said:

HappySqurriel said:
I could be wrong but to me this sounds like a problem with the PEGI rating system ...

From what I can tell the ESRB created ratings that were based on movie ratings and Mature is (roughly) the same as R-rated, and AO is (roughly) the same as NC-17. The problem is that PEGI doesn't have an equivalent rating which is a massive mistake.

What makes a movie NC-17 instead of R?

From my understanding, there are usually 2 reasons for something being rated NC-17

1) Its porn

2) It pushes the limit of what most people would accept from a R-rated movie; that is, violence, sex, language, or drug content at a level where a large portion of the audience will be offended. Explicit sex or torture scenes are the primary drivers, but South Park had to remove (something like) 5 minutes of swearing to get down to a R rating rather than a NC-17.

 

The reason for the difference between R and NC-17 is (mostly) because movie theaters wanted similar rules to what Microsoft is trying to enact. Without theaters trying to create arbitrary judgements on every movie released, they wanted a rating (originally "X" but later changed to "NC-17") that was for eXplicit content that would offend people so that they could refuse to show those movies.