Neither was particularly sexually explicit IIRC.
I dunno, though. Maybe censorship was an “easier” ask since the setting was already there.
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Pika@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
The fact that they allow Resident Evil Village of all games on the Switch but don’t allow this animated nudity scene is insane to me. RE Village was one of the most graphic games I have ever seen.
Neither was particularly sexually explicit IIRC.
I dunno, though. Maybe censorship was an “easier” ask since the setting was already there.
Cyberpunk also has a censorship setting in all versions.
Ah. Then I don’t know.
Maybe a bigger dev just has more leverage?
This is likely it.
There is also the rumor that this wasn’t a choice by Nintendo, but a choice of the dev’s so they didn’t have to have two separate editions to be able to sell in Japan(like they already do for the playstation edition). If that’s the case this makes it even worse IMO since it wasn’t like a last minute “BTW this is a thing” they had plenty of time to tell buyers that the product was altered
missingno@fedia.io 13 hours ago
Unconfirmed, but the rumor I'm hearing is that AdHoc submitted one universal binary for all regions, and it's CERO who won't allow this content in Japan. FWIW, the JP version of Cyberpunk is also censored, but it's separate from the international release.
It's also worth noting that the JP PS5 version just launched alongside it, separate from last year's international version. Haven't been able to find confirmation on whether that version is censored too, but if it is then it's definitely CERO.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I think this is very likely the reason yea.
I’m also now finding out that they had to censor the coverart of the switch 2 edition a few weeks ago as well which I was unaware of. If it turns out they knew for awhile that it would be censored, and just chose not to tell anyone that is going to permanently damper my opinion of their studio. Like it’s one thing to be like “This was forced upon us last minute so we threw a solution together” it’s a whole different situation of knowing that it was going to happen, then refusing to tell the consumers about it since you knew it would lower sales.
It sounds to me like they knew this change was going to be required at that point, but didn’t want to publicly announce that.
missingno@fedia.io 11 hours ago
Yeah, regardless of where it came from, the lack of disclosure reflects very poorly on AdHoc.