Lusche on 11 December 2012
| Mnementh said: The concentration on selling USK18-content misses the point. As Lusche said, there is no law in germany that restrict selling media to certain times. But there is a law, that demands a proper age-verification if you sell such content. Restricting times is NO proper age-verification and I suspect you have to do that to buy ZombiU via eShop (don't know, bought the game retail). I really think the time-restriction is about the gameplay-videos available at eShop. For that the same rules as for TV-stations may apply. And it seems Nintendos shop-system can't block only the videos at certain times. Also I think Nintendo is overdoing it, but I'm no lawyer. |
while this law exists for tv stations I do think this only applies to tv stations and not to trailers on a gaming console.
otherwise microsoft and steam would also have no trailers on their page/console in germany for that timeframe.
i think its a greyzone where the law might be unclear and nintendo just playing it safe to not get into trouble in the future if this changes.
