XCX saw a lot more censorship than you think

[DivinePaladin]

outlawauron said:

DivinePaladin said:

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.

I'm really glad you listened instead of parroting the same response. (By the way, if you're gonna talk about parroting, maybe don't do so yourself!) It doesn't NEED backing. The US market is full of this conservative mentality - trust me, I live here - especially when it comes to children's products. For all intents and purposes America considers Nintendo as a whole a children's product. 

 

If Nintendo sees the need to change insanely minor things for its other markets, especially (again) children's provocative clothing, I'm going to trust its testing and its desire for its brand image more than a tiny minority of people whining for boobies on the Internet. The distance between major, media-frenzy controversies doesn't mean that it's all suddenly fine and dandy in between. To prevent controversy and disappoint fans over something stupid is better than to risk CAUSING one for such a small minority of Nintendo's already dwindling fanbase. You don't need proof of controversy to be concerned with it altogether, and you know that.