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Snoorlax on 21 October 2015
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binary solo said:

You are getting totally the wrong end of the stick. Nintendo is doing this to themselves it's not being forced on them by anyone. Nintendo is free to ruin it's own work and while you are free to call Nintendo a bunch of dicks for doing it, Nintendo is merely exercising its rights do change and modify it's games as it sees fit.

This is not the kind of censorship you should be getting all hot and bothered about. Try focussing on the actually socially damaging forms of censorship like that which is imposed by an overbearing government, such as Australia. Or countries that block access to political or activist websites, or the banning of books, or the oppression of the media. Nintendo nerfing their own games is a non-issue.

Although, it is an issue if these decisions end up hurting the sales of the games and/or having a negative impact on hardware sales. Though at this point, it's hard to think Wii U hardware sales could get worse from these sorts of decisions. At worst the games won't increase hardware sales, but I doubt if these games were released in their original form they would do much for hardware sales anyway.If Nintendo wants their next console to have a much broader base of gamer support then they need to release these games without nerfing content. These decisions merely play into the perception that they are positining themselves as kid / family friendly in the west and therefore don't adequately cater to the interest of the generality of gamers. Whether that is right or wrong, these game nerfing actions just feed into that perception.

Sorry, but this is not a political issue, this is a culture within Nintendo issue. The games that i've mentioned aren't works of Nintendo they're either games made by second party studios like Fire Emblem, Xenoblade or made by third party like Bravely Default most of which have a different game philosophy than Nintendo. Nintendo just published these games in the West and change what they believe is needed essentially changing somebody elses artistic work even if Nintendo has the rights, the game is not directly made by them and theyre supressing artistic freedom. 

All these "slight changes" show that NoA still hasn't learned from the "No-Blood in Mortal Kombat" controversy, they think that their audience can't handle some suggestive content in a T or M rated game. Nintendo needs to understand that the whole gaming industry has changed and above all their hardcore fans have grown up. Nowadays it's normal for games to have blood or some nudity, i'm not saying Nintendo should embrace these things in their Mario or Zelda game but if the game in question was originally intended to be that way why change it's identity?

If anything Nintendo is only hurting themselves by reinforcing the idea that they're still that kids company and they're doing this in the worst possible situation when the WiiU has weak sales and famous Youtubers are only bad mouthing Nintendo for their absurd bussiness decisions.