Should Gaming Have A Set Age For Sexualization Of Characters?

[outlawauron]

the_dengle said:

outlawauron said:

No outsourced studios is going to have the authority to make game content decisions. They just do the task they're contracted to do. Nintendo's name is the putting the title outside of Japan, so any decision made was done with their approval. Really, there are hardly any games that Nintendo publishes that require (and really, none of these games required any sort of altering) their response. It's mostly an Nintendo of America thing, as most NoE go through just fine. I know that they were asked to release Senran Kagura digital only. Nintendo just runs things differently.

I'm not sure where this is going at this point, but I'm willing to wager that Treehouse will not alter the outfit designs in Xenoblade X or change Lynlee's age by more than... two years.

This made me laugh.

We shall see what happens. It wouldn't be overly surprising.

In regards to cultural relativism, etc. I think that people forget we're talking about a very niche game with a small target audience. This game will sell at most 200k in Japan? While far more than other games that get criticized, it's not like this game is an accepted piece of culture. Even if a society is more open to certain elements, it's not like it's a societal norm to be playing niche JRPGs.