Sony ramping up censoring of Japanese games, now forcing all Japanese games to go through Western content inspections

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outlawauron said:

0D0 said:

You know, PC is more like old west while consoles have more standard stuff. I usually see much more hentai games for PC than for consoles.

You say Japanese games that will only ever be released in Japan. Fair enough then. I thought they were censoring Japanese games for western releases.

That is true, there is more quantity on PC than consoles, but that doesn't stop them from making more money on console. They finish the real (often adult) version on PC to sell at Comiket or other fan events and then port an all ages version to consoles. That's how the market has been done for 20 years.

and yeah, that is the topic. SIE (sony games HQ in California) is forcing Japanese developers to go through an approval process entirely in English for their game to release in Japan.

Yeah, it's kinda nonsense because Sony must have some people to do that locally in Japan. I only guess that since Japan is getting smaller regarding game market and hentai-ish games are even smaller piece of the pie, maybe for Sony is just not worth it to keep the efforts in Japan to process these sort of games.

I don't think they will treat all Japanese devs like this, though. This must be a minority of devs from a minority market from a minority slice of rated games.