Sony Cracks Down on Sexually Explicit Content in Games
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Because WSJ locks articles behind a paywall they know will get people to click on them, I don't know the full article and the various workaround I've found don't work anymore. I have to go to alternative methods to get the meat of the article.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sony-cracks-down-on-sexually-explicit-content-in-games-11555427944
Sony's new in-house standards that limit sexually explicit content distinguish it from other game-hardware makers that allow a greater amount of content as long as the software carries a rating from a national industry body.
A Sony spokeswoman confirmed the company has established its own guidelines "so that creators can offer well- balanced content on the platform" and gaming "does not inhibit the sound growth and development" of young people. She declined to say when these guidelines were introduced or to discuss them in detail.
What about Dragon's Crown then?
I know it is kind of an old controversy at this point but would Sony seriously ditch a critically acclaimed title like that?
Well, there are tons of games with sexual implications, how can one define where to draw the line though.
Why do we still care about tits and dicks to this degree?
I'll never understand Japan's weird culture around censoring adult content, as if they're fooling anyone.
So... The rest of the world need to adjust to the dumb Americans morals about sexual stuff. Fuck off Sony.
Whats funny to me is that most people can go through life without ever really seeing gore and violence to the point shown in video games, but sex, the most human thing ever that every human does at some point in their life barring some exceptions is considered too extreme to see. Its backwards
This is really not Japan's fault, it's the US.
This has been going on for a few months now. A lot of these developers are releasing the censored games uncensored on switch now. I feel a lot of them are gonna start migrating their focus to switch since Nintendo seems to allow this type of content.
It's so strange seeing Nintendo open about violent and sexual games on their platform when in the 90's they were staunchly against it and used it to slam SEGA's allowance of Night Trap onto their system during a senate hearing. (which ultimately lead to the creation of the ESRB). See the following at 13:28
https://youtu.be/Wv3HDVd22P8?t=808
Night Trap is available on the Switch now btw. Kind of funny in retrospect.
Sony is finished. DLsite Home Console any day now.
it's a bloody videogame not a manual on how to rape women, why do people seem to think they are?
maybe sony should just eat a dick to get a fair comparison to video games
because religion and puritans
Once again, gratuitous violence is A-OKAY, but boobs and butts are not allowed. Can we please stop demonizing nudity and sex?
I mean, look at this. Mortal Kombat is a good example of a game with intense violence. And while I may not have statistics to back my claim up, I would say that one of the drawing factors to this game are the fatalities and how violent they can be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoOoX7rdWZ4
On the flip side, you have a recently released title, Devil May Cry 5 that stir some controversy with it's censorship. From what I understand, the censors were patched out in a US release, but the EU might still be censored? Regardless, it was censored in the first place when it clearly didn't need to be.
I feel like I could go on for days about this.
Two factors last year combined to turn that unease into action, these Sony officials say. One was the rise of the #MeToo movement in the U.S., which pointed to the dangers of being associated with content that some might see as demeaning to women.
lol nothing you could put in a video game could ever be worse than the gaming community.
Hopefully someone or a group of someones with legal clout tells Sony to fuck off with this puritan bullshit.
There's no reason to play video games anymore.
Because parents who don't bother watching what their kids play cry out "OOOoooooo think of the children!!!". They let their kids play MK because they think their kids are too pure to be violent or think the fatalities are too deep in fantasy to mimic, but god help them if a chick flashes a boob or better yet a T-rated game with side-boob that will taint their pure little minds.
The world would be a better place if we were more open about something natural like sex and not something like extreme gore
it's weird. it's like the level of sexuality seen in video games started ratcheting up after the early to mid 2000s jack thompson reactionary era, and now it's diving back down again due to some weird puritanical stances that somehow came back out of nowhere.
I'm trying to wrap my head around the concept that Sony is doing this as an apparent, and rather late, knee jerk reaction to the #MeToo movement.
Like, I get it from a basic level, but is Sony basically implying that having sexy and potentially nude women in games leads to male gamers condoning and participating in sexual harassment towards women?
If so, I mean, doesn't that argument hold as much water as the whole "shooting games lead to school shootings" argument? Meaning, pretty much very little to no water at all.
The streamers argument makes sense because of guidelines on sites like Twitch, but the #MeToo one just feels to me like Sony saying it's related just so they can garner more support for their decisions, because who the fuck would disagree with the core concepts of the #MeToo movement?
And thus, by association, disagreeing with Sony's policies makes people think you disagree with #MeToo, which results in your totally legit arguments being thrown under the "sexist male gamer" umbrella.
just another example of gamers being oppressed...
Meanwhile on a Nintendo console
https://youtu.be/DwWUzvIdyD4
Come on, now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqkEBtX7cw&feature=youtu.be&t=42
Actually using Mortal Kombat can be used as an example for both.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/6/18252200/mortal-kombat-11-scorpion-fatality-ed-boon
There’s a bit more seriousness this time around. From my time playing the game’s opening moments, it’s clear that some well-loved characters will be getting killed off early. But with a plot that focuses on time travel, anything can happen. Regardless, Beran says his team has taken a more measured approach with the art direction in MK11. That’s especially true of the the game’s female fighters.
“Our character lead, Brendan George, has been a breath of fresh air of just introducing new ideas,” Beran said. “Our design is just getting more mature and respectful. You’re not going to wear a bikini to a fight. You’re not going to be showing so much skin. I think it’s just what the game is about: You’re going in to fight for your life, and you’re not going to be wearing such scantily clad items.
I only point this out because I think it's really weird for Mortal Kombat 11 to still have excessive gore but only the women need to have design changes because of reasons.
The men actually have less clothes this time around, almost as if the new design direction is entirely political in a game about punching a half dragon in the balls 9000 times with a fist made out of shadowy fire.
Yeah, sex is gross and bad for you.
Now watch me as I disembowel this child with a machete to get XP.
To be fair this might have been done in an attempt to make the series more e-sports friendly. It wouldn't be the fist time a fighting game series radically altered its art direction for the sake of e-sports.
I'd have focused on maybe making the fatalities a bit less Rube Goldbergian, but that shit generates tons of hype so I understand why they don't.
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