XCX saw a lot more censorship than you think

[outlawauron]

spemanig said:

outlawauron said:

There's no data to support that these types of changes benefit the game in any way or really that this is the reason why Nintendo made the changes. Looking at XCX's sales, it's pretty that they've failed to reach any wide audience.

If you're content to have games filtered down because of the personal views of a small localization team, then more power to you. I think you're lying to yourself if you believe this type of thing broadens the market in any way.

Clearly there is data to support it. Localization isn't cheap. Companies don't spend time, money, and resources making these kinds of changes unless they are sure it will have a positive effect on their bottom line. You may not have the data. That's fine. You're not meant to. They do though.

XCX not setting the world on fire only goes to show how much worse it would have sold if it got stigmatized as "that creepy japanese game" instead of just "that niche japanese game" as it likely would have without them.

Well, you certainly have far more faith in Treehouse than they've ever earned (especially considering Nintendo's history with needless censorship).

You can just as easily make the argument that people skipped it because of the changes they made to it. The people who care enough to avoid playing Xenoblade because of boob slider in character creation were never going to buy the game in the first place.