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JWeinCom on 05 August 2020
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KLXVER said:
JWeinCom said:

Not censoring a game is not the same as publishing it. As for censoring a game or not, I'm guessing that's a question being addressed by someone in middle management somewhere.

Generally, when people complain about sexualizing they are referring gratuitous sexualization, or objectification. So, if you're going to get hung up on terminology, feel free to sub in that word. As for her "whole character" being based on sex, I'd question if you played the game. There's a lot more to her than that in both games. Posing and wearing leather doesn't mean your whole character is based on sex. 

Well if they are so afraid, then they wouldnt let it on their platform. The same one that has Mario and Zelda. Why does it matter if they are the one publishing it?

Also she is based around sex. Thats the joke. She is so overly sexualized that it becomes funny. 

That's part of get character yes. That doesn't mean it's her whole character, or that she's based on that concept. If the game was about her banging her way through Europe in search of a good dicking, you may have a point. But... it's not.

As for why it matters if they're the ones publishing it or not, that should be pretty self evident. If Nintendo was taken to task for allowing DOA XTreme on their console (which I have nothing against btw, if you want to play a game for animated tits rock on), they could easily explain how running a successful platform requires that they allow some content they don't personally approve of, in order to maintain relationships with other developers. Or, they could also simply say that some guy in the marketing department should have stepped in to stop the release, but Chuck in marketing did a shitty job. They could point out how they let things like Tem Tem, which is a Pokemon competitor/knock off that they presumably don't like, on their platform, because being a platform holder doesn't mean you can ban any content you don't like, and that Nintendo does not endorse every game available on the Switch, and that the game doesn't represent the company's values blah blah blah.

On the other hand, if they actually paid for that content to be created, and presumably are paying for it to be advertised and are actively trying to get people to buy it, it's pretty much impossible to say that they do not endorse that product. Your platform can have games that you don't like or approve of. You by definition cannot publish a game you don't approve of.