RolStoppable said:
You convey that Nintendo has started a habit of censorship because they were in the mood to do it, but the frequency of these instances was caused by the games themselves. Fatal Frame: Maiden of the Black Water, Xenoblade Chronicles X and Fire Emblem Fates. What did all of these games have in common? Depiction of underage girls in revealing clothes. The age of consent in Japan is 13, but it's higher pretty much everywhere else as far as markets for video games are concerned. So instead of running into legal problems, Nintendo removed or made small adjustments to the content because doing so had no impact on the quality of the games. It is the simplest and most effective solution. The legal problems are real: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/26362/dead-or-alive-dimensions-banned-in-sweden If you understand the reason for the instances of self-censorship, you realize that there is no basis to believe that this will eventually expand to include the removal of meaningful content in games. |
1 girl in the japanese version of XBC was supposedly 13- the other examples you use did not have to do w age
i don t ever recal a playing a video game were an age was even disclosed or i had any knowledge of an individuals specific age including the original xenoblade
