German Law to Blame For 18+ Rated Wii U Content Block In Europe

[Mnementh]

Barozi said:

Sommernacht said:

I am not convinced that Nintendo is required by (national or European) law to apply this to all EU countries. I've got the feeling that Nintendo is not bothered by this too much (Nintendo never reall liked adult-only stuff, right?) and chose the simpler version of applying it to all of Europe.

It should be quite easy to restrict this to Germany and/or to create workarounds like other people in this thread have suggested (age verification).

By the way I find it quite ignorant of people in this thread who post generalized, biased comments like "German laws suck" based on this one instance where it might actually just be Nintendos way of interpreting this law.

Exactly.

I see two possible ways. (I remind you that I have no clue about the eShop and that the following are just logical conclusions)

1. Proper age verification
As I've proved it's possible to buy 18+ content at all times anywhere, that must mean that it's in some way possible to buy 18+ content via the eShop without proper verification. (Probably with Nintendo eShop cards ?)

2. Dedicated German eShop
Redirect every German WiiU owner to the German eShop where titles like ZombiU are not available during daytime (or introduce the point above only there). All other European WiiU owners should get to either a European eShop or a UK eShop, Spain eShop etc.
That way there should be absolutely no problems regarding any German law.

I also think a dedicated german eShop should solve this issue for other european countries. It could simply remove the videos for the game at other times than night and would be probably fine, you are allowed to buy the game at any time (with proper age-verification, that could be solved somehow).