Hoookay. I'm telling you, the ecchi games really aren't that big of an impact. Hell, there is a reason why the Western branch is calling the shots here.
Yeah, at the end of day, this is really only affecting small devs that'll be obliged to follow the platform's policy no matter what.
I think what's happening here is that Sony is trying to control their corporate image by cutting ties with semi-porn games. So I wouldn't say Sony isn't getting anything from it. I don't like about Sony keeping a radio silence about the policy change, though.
You kidding, right?
Lol @ the culture is different. There is certainly a big chunk of people in the West who love that shit, too, even if it's taboo. Your "just numbers" argument actually undermines the whole defense of 20-somethings (or 1000 year old dragons) that looks like they are 10. We know why they look like that. We know who that is for. But I guess it's okay to draw what appears to be a little child in a sexualized way as long as you say they're not a child, right?
Vita has that stigma.
Well maybe Japan should change.
why does it being a "niche developer" matter? stop trying to paint them as the "poor widdle developer uwu". these are grown ass people putting underage girls in their games for you to grope. these devs need to be bullied more, not less, regardless of their size. painting this as the big mega corporation going after the little guy is extremely disingenuous.
Exactly. These people are hacks. This shit is a grift. The games aren't of good quality.
Pretty gross, right? All i did was copy/paste
I know right? I had to have a double take as well. I originally thought that was their ninja rank or something until I got to the bit where it was like "bust not known".
The issue many people here have is not with the loli dragon sh*t, but with the potential to affect games like Catherine with characters that actually look and act like grown woman. I'm not down for some sexual harassment minigame, but stuff like nudity and what not shouldn't be censored (just like with western games like RDR and cyberpunk)
I sorta see it but not really. Sony's never really had that sort of grip hold in the first place as there was plenty of exclusive titles and franchise to the DS and 3DS they were dominant but they didn't get everything until fairly recently. Frankly any Japanese publisher interested in western sales is going to make games on that platform and those are the games Sony is interested in. At most this is really the worst case scenario you'd get a return to something like the DS where Sony got most things but not everything.
Ahh. The "whatabout violence" response, like clockwork. Don't bail out with something so predictable. You've chosen your hill. Let's see where this goes.
On some gaming boards. On normie boards or in the real world most people don't know about it. They probably don't even know what a Vita is. It barely existed in most stores..
That's from an official visual guide.
We'll have to see. I mean one of the most popular games this gen is The Witcher 3 and it's full of nudity and sex. But note that the criticism of TW3 for its depiction of those things wasn't as severe as it was in The Witcher 2 for its "sexual conquest trading cards."
Apparently women are gross when they get old. And apparently "old" is still pretty young in Japan.
Amen.
Not defending pedophilia or anything here, but that last bit is a bit vague since whose rules should they be following? Some countries like Australia have their age of consent at 16 surprisingly, so should they have their characters age be minimum 16 in some countries and 18 everywhere else?
You know, i always thought 18 was too young. I mean you're still in gradeschool.
This is true but Sony's Japanese market is heading for a contraction that even they are almost certainly aware of here they're overall lack of trying in the market recently and why this stuff is processed in the US. There's no Vita to ease the transition into next gen. Even in absolute best case scenario they retain the appeal they have now in Japan which isn't great.
That's fair considering I'm very much in the same both as fair as woman that I find attractive goes. They need to be and act like they are at the very least 20. God this whole legal age thing is annoying cause everything, including the age to drink is different from place to place. Wish we could just get one universal rule. I think 20 should be considered legal but at the same time, most first world countries it's like 18 so maybe that should be considered the right age as more people agree on that?
The age of consent is different to age of sufficient for porn.
How crazy is it that in America you can't drink until you're 21 but you can fuck an old dude on film for mass distribution and take a bullet as a murder machine at 18. They trust you are old enough to make those far more life-altering decisions as a teen but you still gotta stay out of the bars.
