(Update : It has been removed by new patch for PS4) Devil May Cry 5 is Censoring Partial Nudity

[Darwinianevolution]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Darwinianevolution said:

No it's not. If they start making small devs censor their games but the big ones stay untouched, it could probably lead to either heavy controvery or lawsuits. The thing is, Capcom as a publisher probably doesn't mind the censorship, so it goes along with it. Selling their game is the number 1 priority (after all, without sales, there is no money by microtransactions). The fact that Sony asks for censorship of this kind in an 18+ game is worrying.

But Sony isn't the one who censored this game ... 

I mean, I *could* see a future where Sony tries enforcing it on larger publishers and I actually think that may happen but it would take a long time to get to that and honestly it doesn't seem like something that's going to be happening anytime soon. I'm also not sure how it would lead to lawsuits ... sounds like a huge stretch to me, the little guys wouldn't try to take Sony to task especially because most of these companies are based in Japan. 

It's worrying but I honestly don't think the big games are going to face this scrutiny right now, it's the little projects which are argued to be less "tasteful". 

True, but without Sony's new policies regarding mature content, do you think Capcom would've bothered? The big games are as affected as the smaller ones. More, in fact. Big companies are not going to risk their monumental investments for a naked butt, whereas an indie dev with a small but loyal userbase can just migrate to other platform (or just regular PC) and be safe in the thought of most of their customer base following them.