XCX saw a lot more censorship than you think

[outlawauron]

DivinePaladin 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.

Edit: I could see the argument if they had to make changes in order to get a certain ESRB rating. To me, that makes sense, even if I don't necessarily agree that they should be done. I don't think you can argue that for XCX (or really any of the recent cases of censorship).

It doesn't matter if there's data to support it or not. It's a risk bringing anything overly sexualized to the overly conservative US market, especially with an underage girl involves. Bayonetta only gets away with it because that's insanely excessive to the point that it's parody. If Nintendo leaves everything as is, there's a chance, and a good one given the US media's love to hate on games, that some pundit goes off on Nintendo for making child porn, and then there's his huge travesty and white suburban soccer mom's vow to never buy a Nintendo again while their kids are in the background jerking off to CoD and Mortal Kombat. 

 

It's a risk. There doesn't need to be quantifiable data when you're talking about risking brand security on something that you wouldn't even know is missing unless you followed the game from minute one. It doesn't matter if it's a niche game or a huge mainstream one, any Nintendo game that took this risk would be punished. 

Honestly, this just isn't true. It's a stereotype that gets parroted without any recent backing for it. Not to mention that there are several other games with the same rating, with very similar things that are just fine. If this was a game the featured Mario, you might have an argument for actual PR hit, but a niche game that very few people care about? 

 The last time the conversation came up of holding things back from conservative market, it was Jack Thompson trying to ban GTA for being too violent. That had far more traction than any demand to have Nintendo's game censored.