I mentioned it in another thread, but I think Sony has the right to go above and beyond what ESRB/CERO allows. Nintendo basically did that in the 80's/90's. Whatever. It's Sony's console. Sony has the final say on what their console should be.
But Sony shouldn't be cancelling PS4 games days before they launch (or threatening to cancel them if you don't meet their new censorship requirements). They should be upfront about their position and nip these games in the bud during the "concept approval" stage. Sony knew damn well what kind of a game Senran Kagura 7 was when they courted Marvelous to make it a PS4 exclusive, and yet they were perfectly fine with this kind of content through years of wasted development, until days before the game launched. Then all of a sudden they do a 180 and attack the game with "Won't somebody please think of the virtual children!" And some people are okay with that, because apparently for some people, all questionable moves are justified as soon as anyone plays the "pedophile" card.
Also, more than a per-game thing, this is probably the sort of direction change that should be made clear around the launch of a console, not five years into it's life. And especially not coming after the PS Vita. People knew what they were getting into when they bought an NES or SNES because Nintendo was entirely upfront about it.
