Sony forces Japanese developers to censor sexual content - For Japanese audiences too.

[Marissa Moira]

Tbf, given Ninty’s past of making “iQue” versions of their consoles for China, Ninty might just end up doing that with Tencent and Switch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQue

I dunno if doing an iQue version of the switch would work. The whole point of the switch was that they would be consolidating everything on the hardware end which is why it's region free. The carts and controllers work no matter what territory they're from.

Tencent is the chinese government itself while iQue was made as an attempt to circumvent the government's involvement. Nintendo's hardware is made directly in china itself, it's just not currently sold there.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Also I'm not sure if Sturgeon's law applies to many of these companies who are getting their games censored. Idea Factory/Compile Heart is batting a perfect score for releasing not one single good game.

You say that, but people really do seem to like the Neptunia games. I might not like them but they wouldn't be churning them out so fast if there wasn't an audience.

There's also a fact that censorship has been inconsequential in quite a few instances . Censored games have done well in the past. Tales of Berseria had one of it's opening scenes changed in the west and the game sold very well in western markets(Tales of Xillia also had a scene changed when one of the characters are falling, in the japanese version they had her give the finger while in the western version she just had her hand outreached when falling) . Xenoblade Chronicles X had Lin's outfits censored but the game did well enough to warrant a sequel.

That's why I'm curious about how well the sequels will do/have done. I've not heard about a new Project Zero/Fatal Frame since that was censored. I remember Bravely Default was everywhere but I barely heard anyone mention the sequel outside of a couple of posts mocking the censorship. Fire Emblem seems to have vanished after Fates.

"Get woke go broke" is a common saying these days, and while there's always exceptions it's true enough of the time to be a noticeable pattern.

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

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You say that, but people really do seem to like the Neptunia games. I might not like them but they wouldn't be churning them out so fast if there wasn't an audience.


That's why I'm curious about how well the sequels will do/have done. I've not heard about a new Project Zero/Fatal Frame since that was censored. I remember Bravely Default was everywhere but I barely heard anyone mention the sequel outside of a couple of posts mocking the censorship. Fire Emblem seems to have vanished after Fates.

"Get woke go broke" is a common saying these days, and while there's always exceptions it's true enough of the time to be a noticeable pattern.

Neptunia and CH have a dedicated following because CH made their promise to try and bring everything game over fully uncut and since Sony has marked them for censorship they have begun porting games to Switch and PC to see if the market can replace PS4's. But they are still considered one of the worst Japanese devs in spite of recent attempts at improvement

Regardless Get Woke Go Broke is very much a concerted effort by disgruntled audience to make a game bomb if possible. As we have seen with MK11 they used that to try and make the game fail because it has decided to GWGB

 

[Marissa Moira]

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Neptunia and CH have a dedicated following because CH made their promise to try and bring everything game over fully uncut and since Sony has marked them for censorship they have begun porting games to Switch and PC to see if the market can replace PS4's. But they are still considered one of the worst Japanese devs in spite of recent attempts at improvement

Regardless Get Woke Go Broke is very much a concerted effort by disgruntled audience to make a game bomb if possible. As we have seen with MK11 they used that to try and make the game fail because it has decided to GWGB

Yeah but in the time that the Censorship Policy was found out you've had major releases on the PS4 outpace all other systems, Kingdom hearts 3, Sekiro, Tales of Vesperia, Divinity Original Sin 2 Enhanced Edition,, etc. Both Kingdom hearts and Tales of broke series sales records. The only thing that could replace Sony is another system that acts just like the playstation and as of current Xbox is too gimped to function, Nintendo is too underpowered in it's hardware, and nothing looks like it's going to budge especially with the PS5 being able to play PS4 games out of the box and is apparently being priced at 400 bucks. I mean people keep saying that "THIS IS ARROGANT SONY" but this doesn't seem to be especially since what sunk the PS3 was the japanese branch and what saved it was the US branch which later went on to design and market the PS4 and PS5. The other thing I keep seeing getting repeated is having to submit approval stuff in english. Smaller companies like Aquaplus when bringing stuff stateside work with a larger publisher who already have an english branch and they would be the ones who would be submitting everything to sony for approval. It's a redundant step since it was already happening anyways. There's also the secondary effect as market research and having the US branch be more involved with what Japanese titles are out so they can be brought over to other territories.

Mortal Kombat 11 being railed against successfully is mostly because it's a small enough target. it's a single release of a game and not a whole platform that has multiple game releases every month.

 

[AbyssStarer]

Yeah but in the time that the Censorship Policy was found out you've had major releases on the PS4 outpace all other systems, Kingdom hearts 3, Sekiro, Tales of Vesperia, Divinity Original Sin 2 Enhanced Edition,, etc. Both Kingdom hearts and Tales of broke series sales records. The only thing that could replace Sony is another system that acts just like the playstation and as of current Xbox is too gimped to function, Nintendo is too underpowered in it's hardware, and nothing looks like it's going to budge especially with the PS5 being able to play PS4 games out of the box and is apparently being priced at 400 bucks. I mean people keep saying that "THIS IS ARROGANT SONY" but this doesn't seem to be especially since what sunk the PS3 was the japanese branch and what saved it was the US branch which later went on to design and market the PS4 and PS5. The other thing I keep seeing getting repeated is having to submit approval stuff in english. Smaller companies like Aquaplus when bringing stuff stateside work with a larger publisher who already have an english branch and they would be the ones who would be submitting everything to sony for approval. It's a redundant step since it was already happening anyways. There's also the secondary effect as market research and having the US branch be more involved with what Japanese titles are out so they can be brought over to other territories.

Mortal Kombat 11 being railed against successfully is mostly because it's a small enough target. it's a single release of a game and not a whole platform that has multiple game releases every month.

• Most, if not all the games you just listed there had no censorship in them and released on more than one platform.
• A system's power ultimately does not drastically influence the popularity or sales of said system. PS2, 3DS, and Wii were all underpowered consoles that sold like crazy because they had games people wanted. Most people who give a shit about muh 1080p 60FPS are people who play on PC.
• Many many people are disappointed with their PS4s because they don't like its exclusives outside of Bloodborne. I can guarantee you much of the western market is going to go PC instead of PS5 when the time comes. What made the PS4 succeed was the failiure of Xbox.
• It IS extremely arrogant to force Japanese developers submit forms in English, it's extra work for them because they wouldn't look for a game to be brought stateside when they submit for the game to be released in Japan. Moreover, it gives an extremely anti-Japanese impression...anti-Japanese and Playstation do not go together. Playstation was extremely Japanese. Japan's video game business is intense and based around loyalty, California has gone and slapped their Japanese Playstation developers in the fucking face with bullshit. Keep this bullshit going, make the rules even more stringent yet vague, and they'll push everybody making games for their console away.

Can the fucking newfags with no profile images screw off?

 

[Ruin]

Yeah but in the time that the Censorship Policy was found out you've had major releases on the PS4 outpace all other systems, Kingdom hearts 3, Sekiro, Tales of Vesperia, Divinity Original Sin 2 Enhanced Edition,, etc. Both Kingdom hearts and Tales of broke series sales records. The only thing that could replace Sony is another system that acts just like the playstation and as of current Xbox is too gimped to function, Nintendo is too underpowered in it's hardware, and nothing looks like it's going to budge especially with the PS5 being able to play PS4 games out of the box and is apparently being priced at 400 bucks. I mean people keep saying that "THIS IS ARROGANT SONY" but this doesn't seem to be especially since what sunk the PS3 was the japanese branch and what saved it was the US branch which later went on to design and market the PS4 and PS5. The other thing I keep seeing getting repeated is having to submit approval stuff in english. Smaller companies like Aquaplus when bringing stuff stateside work with a larger publisher who already have an english branch and they would be the ones who would be submitting everything to sony for approval. It's a redundant step since it was already happening anyways. There's also the secondary effect as market research and having the US branch be more involved with what Japanese titles are out so they can be brought over to other territories.

Mortal Kombat 11 being railed against successfully is mostly because it's a small enough target. it's a single release of a game and not a whole platform that has multiple game releases every month.

Use paragraph breaks holy fuck.

 

[UE 558]

Many many people are disappointed with their PS4s because they don't like its exclusives outside of Bloodborne. I can guarantee you much of the western market is going to go PC instead of PS5 when the time comes. What made the PS4 succeed was the failiure of Xbox.

While I do personally like UC4, Horizon, Spidey, SotC remake, and the R&C remake because I’m a soyfilled faggot, I do agree that PS4 had like zero exclusives in the west in 2013 and 2014 and the only reason it sold decently during that time was due to MS’ embarrassing E3 2013 conference and the incompetent bullshit they pulled early on, like forcing you to use a Kinect or initially forcing you to use XBL Gold for basic shit like Twitch

And while I don’t plan on pawning my PS4, mainly because the time it’d take to sell my console and games and then rebuy them or buy similar games on another platform would be arduous. (I already did it once when selling my Xbone for PS4 to play Bloodborne and Spidey back in early 2017, since the one Xbone exclusive I wanted, Scalebound got shitcanned and I don’t plan on doing it again)
However, I do plan on just skipping MS and PS entirely and just staying with Switch and PC in Gen 9

 

[Marissa Moira]

• Most, if not all the games you just listed there had no censorship in them and released on more than one platform.
• A system's power ultimately does not drastically influence the popularity or sales of said system. PS2, 3DS, and Wii were all underpowered consoles that sold like crazy because they had games people wanted. Most people who give a shit about muh 1080p 60FPS are people who play on PC.
• Many many people are disappointed with their PS4s because they don't like its exclusives outside of Bloodborne. I can guarantee you much of the western market is going to go PC instead of PS5 when the time comes. What made the PS4 succeed was the failiure of Xbox.
• It IS extremely arrogant to force Japanese developers submit forms in English, it's extra work for them because they wouldn't look for a game to be brought stateside when they submit for the game to be released in Japan. Moreover, it gives an extremely anti-Japanese impression...anti-Japanese and Playstation do not go together. Playstation was extremely Japanese. Japan's video game business is intense and based around loyalty, California has gone and slapped their Japanese Playstation developers in the fucking face with bullshit. Keep this bullshit going, make the rules even more stringent yet vague, and they'll push everybody making games for their console away.

Can the fucking newfags with no profile images screw off?

That was kinda the point they're all ports with no censorship, yet they sold the most on Sony platforms. Majority of the fanbase and support for those series exist on playstation, so the companies are going to gear everything towards Sony.

Developers already had to submit stuff in english, it was already a required step since the playstation 2 at least. It's the reason why you don't have Working Designs grade translations for games for the over whelming majority.

I don't really see PC getting any hotter than it is, you just have the launcher wars and who know how long that will last. PC is still limited by what's been holding PC back for decades really nothing has changed on that front outside of controllers becoming more commonplace for default controls. The PC settop boxes failed because the Playstation already fills that space and really PC is just used for some multiplayer game mainstays and really doesn't get a whole lot of traction with anything else. There's also the fact that people still want physical games and PC doesn't provide that anymore.

Xbox doesn't seem like it's going to be much competition for the PS5 either, they seem to be going in a Games as a Service direction for the whole platform which isn't going to appeal to a whole lot of people either. The switch is struggling performance-wise as is with ps3 era ports. At the very least it ideally should be somewhat on par with it's competition so it can handle third party support and developers don't need to jump through extra hoops to port something to the platform with the smaller consumer base and have the game come out a year and a half later compared to the same game port it's competition got. Like yeah it doesn't need to be the most powerful, but at the very least it shouldn't be needing severe time consuming downgrades just to get games running, that's no good either.

 

[UE 558]

@AbyssStarer @Marissa Moira just fuck already

 

[SiccDicc]

@AbyssStarer @Marissa Moira just fuck already

Then we have to deal with the spawn.

 

[UE 558]

Then we have to deal with the spawn.

->implying that Moira is female and not a man with a goony beard

 

[SiccDicc]

@purpleboy
->using quotes to make a statement when arrows are the new implication
Also the Bible says it'll create an abomination anyways. So there.

 

[UE 558]

@purpleboy
->using quotes to make a statement when arrows are the new implication
Also the Bible says it'll create an abomination anyways. So there.

Look at this way, that half overly prude, half , horny weeb kid will make for a very milk-heavy lolcow

 

[SiccDicc]

Look at this way, that half overly prude, half , horny weeb kid will make for a very tard cum-heavy lolcow

That's just ChrisChan 2.0.

 

[UE 558]

@SiccDicc how many molotovs would you throw at the SIEA offices if they took out the tiddee and horsey benis in RDR2 because of this?

 

[SiccDicc]

@SiccDicc how many molotovs would you throw at the SIEA offices if they took out the tiddee and horsey benis in RDR2 because of this?

Dynamite arrows. Fire bottles don't do enough damage against concrete.

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

That was kinda the point they're all ports with no censorship, yet they sold the most on Sony platforms. Majority of the fanbase and support for those series exist on playstation, so the companies are going to gear everything towards Sony.

Developers already had to submit stuff in english, it was already a required step since the playstation 2 at least. It's the reason why you don't have Working Designs grade translations for games for the over whelming majority..

This is in reference to the VN porters who dont even have plans to localize their games oversea but have to censor their games regardless as seen with Nora Neko where the devs overcensored as a sign of protest. Hell most of the non AAA overreacted as we seen with SK as well when they did the new year art wallpaper.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Didn't the Japanese hate Nora Neko to begin with? I remember it not being very popular. I mean it was a flat out straight VN with no actual gameplay to speak of. I think the anime short it got also was less than well received. I mean it's not something like Touhou which keeps getting it's games and spinoffs published from assorted companies.

Also if I'm remembering right Nora Neko did have one of it's games come to the US. So that can't be right that they were not planning on localizing it.

https://nintendosoup.com/nora-princ...e-on-switch-and-ps4-no-light-beam-censorship/

I think this could be the case of the devs being drama queens for attention.

 

[Splendid]

It’s a weird bind, if we do nothing, Sony will just keep doing the same shit, if we sperg out like Billy D or NicheGamer, Sony’s probably just gonna use it as ammo and drag SJW spergs like Sterling and LKD in to defend them.

No it's not, just silently don't buy the games and they'll change shit. This isn't hard.
Consoletards don't understand how to get their way.

 

[UE 558]

No it's not, just silently don't buy the games and they'll change shit. This isn't hard.
Consoletards don't understand how to get their way.

It is when you’re an autist on the internet. You forget, guys at places like BoundingIntoComics, OAG, and NicheGamer are attention whores first and reporters second, they don’t get money by simply saying “Sony has consumer unfriendly practices, maybe you should either not buy their games or just buy them second hand”, it has to be something extreme like “SOYNY IS LITERALLY MARXIST AND WANTS TO CUT OFF ALL OF OUR DICKS AND FORCE ALL OF US TO TAKE TRANNY HORMONES”.

Sadly these are the guys who get recognized as the “consumer advocates” by the MSM, not the average joe who’s simply tired of corporate scumbaggery and as a result Kuktaku and the like will use these attention whoring lunatics as examples of EVERYONE unhappy with Sony’s practices.

I’ll probably just buy SIEA games second hand for now on, but that’s because I’m not a fucking idiot and I make my own choices instead of just blindly following a pro-sony SJW hugbox like ResetEra or a Kekistani Sony A-log hugbox like KiA