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Fight-the-Streets said:
burninmylight said:

Well said. There are H-games on the Switch e-shop that are more lewd or have more graphic content (I really don't like using the word "mature") than GTA, and if I had choose between the former and latter to play in a crowd full of people, I'd rather play GTA than some of those games.

People think Nintendo consoles didn't get GTA games back in the day because of some supposed moral stance when it really just came down to moneyhatting from platform holders to either keep them exclusive to one console or finally get them on another. Nintendo stayed out of that, meanwhile it got games that were just as "mature" and edgy (if not more) like True Crime and its sequel, Dead To Rights and BMX XXX all on the GCN. The Wii got freaking Manhunt 2. The DS got GTA Chinatown Wars. Nintendo published Devil's Turd Third on the Wii U.

Manhunt 2, oh yes, that was something! I don't want to go off topic here but these are all M rated games for adults, so censorship for adults is absolutely nothing I can support as distasteful as some things can be! As an adult you can judge and you can just judge to just ignore it and not buy it - end of story. Otherwise, we are no better than a totalitarian China or a religious state like Iran! The state or the religion should never be in charge to decide what is good or bad for adult persons (of course there are laws the state has to enforce but that would go to far here for this topic) - the adult people themselved should always be in charge! Of course, a company can decide for themselves what content they allow in their products but that's something else.

I'm aware that Stinamin_ has just expressed his personal opinion and doesn't want that the state forbid games like GTA but it's always a bit delicate to express personal opinons and extrapolate them (in the sense of "GTA should not be allowed" instead of "I don't like the morally questionable content of GTA and therefore would never buy such a game"). What if someone says: "I don't like people of colour in games, game companies should agree among themselves that no such chracters will appear in any game". It also would be a personal opinion. As long as such a person would decide quietly for him-/herself to never play a game where people of colour appear, it's fine but if you express such an opinion you will be banned on forums (and probably will face other problems as well). Sure, moral and racism are two different cup of teas but for some people violent-morally ill-games are important for them, they serve as a catharsis for them, for example to at least taking revenge virtually for something that was done wrong on you in your real life but you can't do anything against it in real life.

Sorry, for being off topic here but we are adult people here, we can dig into adult topics from time to time.

I apologize for the personal opinion. And I do agree with you bolded words. And I am aware that people have the ability to choose what they purchase and play.

Back to the topic of 160M+, do we happen to know what the number of units sold are in Mexico or South America? I feel like that area has a lot of untapped potential to sell/ship many millions of units, especially if the Switch receives a price drop.



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 160 million (was 120 million, then 140 million, then 150 million)

PS5: 130 million (was 124 million)

Xbox Series X/S: 54 million (was 60 million, then 57 million)

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