| teigaga said:
No one is saying that no such pressures exist, simply that "western pressure" is not a tangible enough thing to force their hand. Teeqoz already said they are censoring themselves. Its like Nintendo saying consumer pressure made them cancel windwakers artsyle and revert to something more realistic. Only difference would be that Windwaker actually recieved significantly more backlash then any of these Japanese games, also backlash from their primary consumers not random people who do not represent their audience. Really we're talking 1 Bayonetta review and someone writing an article about Dragons Crown. |
It certainly is a tangible enough thing to force their hand. They are admitting it themselves.
Games like GTA, COD, ME, and MK are all rated M and didn't care that they got that rating. Square might be thinking Star Ocean might get bumped up to that if they kept the art the way it was. Still pressure, still tangible, still forced their hand. Regardless of how we as consumers feel about it, that is what it is.
