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Gematsu: Visual novel Silverio Trinity coming to PlayStation, hindered by recent Sony regulations
- Thread starter ggx2ac
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Guess you will read somwthing like this for every niche Jp release from now on
http://ideafintl.com/updates/2018/11/08/6425.html
http://ideafintl.com/updates/2018/11/08/6425.html
There is absolutely zero chance Sony of California will let them release it in the west and I doubt Idea Factory wants to do a PC only release.
Don't they already port all their games to PC though?
I can't imagine they'll have CH/IF making PS4 games in Japan to then only release them on PC in the west.
Yeah, I hate this. With Nintendo I had the option of importing the game if the games were censor, but this is steeping over the line with it affecting all versions.
I'm glad Idea Factory at least said something about their future games, regardless of how things might pan out. This whole situation sucks and is extremely frustrating to have it happening well into the PS4's life.
There's also the difference that Nintendo only ever did it with their own products.
CH only develops PS4 games AFAIK, they could port stuff but dropping PS isn't happening so they have to work within those terms.
Oh man, what a strange era we live in now. Sony becoming the out of touch puritan platform holder. With Japanese games getting exclusive extra content on PC as a result, or arguably becoming defacto PC exclusives depending on perspective.
I wonder just how far Sony will push with their new censoring rules. Could this mess even start effecting any anime game that so much as has a brief panty shot anywhere in the game? Seeing that they even forced censorship light on a bikini this mess could even go as far as to start effecting Tales of games and the extra swimsuit outfits that you can get in those games.
Sony's never been the least restrictive company in the world, despite their reputation, but they've never been this bad either. What's prompted this? Has there been a change in management?
This stuff has been pretty targeted so far, I wouldn't expect anything close to consistency from this (for better or worse).
AFAIK they moved their corporate headquarters from Japan to a specific area in the United States, so management has changed to people who only view the world with puritan goggles & bible in hand, and can only speak English.
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You're being sarcasictic right? They moved to California the "SJW" capitol of the world.
There's nothing stopping them from putting their stuff on Switch too, if they wanted. The new Neptunia game is going to be on both PS4 and Switch, actually. I could see future games they don't think they could release uncensored on PS4 being moved to Switch entirely. It's not like these games are demanding from a technical perspective.
I had been considering buying a PSVR headset after Neptunia VR released for that game and a couple of other anime style VR games. Thank God I didnt go through with that
Except that move was, like, 2 years ago, wasn't it?
You want to elaborate on what you mean by this?
meanwhile they allowed to release this theme on PSN - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5AkqA2zx0 :)
Militaratus was implying that Sony had been taken over by evangelical christians who are censoring the anime games. I was saying that Sony is being run by the exact opposite type of people who also hate anime games for differinf reasons
Neptunia VR just got released on PC
Along with various other anime stule VR games like Airtone VR and Hatsune Miku VR
Only issue I have with this is that murder simulators get by. Ban serial killer simulators too.
"SJW"s aren't a thing and the idea that California is where they all congregate is some basic Gamergate bullshit besides. Same goes for the idea that progressive people in games universally "hate anime games", lmao.
Are you a gamergater?
Man, do Japanese PS players got the raw end of the deal as now they have violence, and fanservice games censor over there.
Huh, quite a reversal from 3 years ago when nintendo were the ones censoring multiple games.
The most surprising thing to me might be the requirement that things are done in English. That sounds like a pretty annoying expense for the kind of smaller japanese developers we're talking about.
The most surprising thing to me might be the requirement that things are done in English. That sounds like a pretty annoying expense for the kind of smaller japanese developers we're talking about.
https://gematsu.com/2018/11/nora-to...r-ps4-scene-enhancement-patch-1-now-available
Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart got a patch that kinda censors the already censored stuff lol. Cgs replaced and some new ones added. The Switch version will get these changed cgs and the new ones as a bonus to be viewed in the gallery.
Devs decided this is better than the super censored cgs it seems.
I guess from a visual stand point it makes sense and looks better than blinding light beams, and a fanservice scene that is heavily censored with light beams so you don't see anything kinda fails its purpose in the first place.
This whole Sony censorship story continues to be a massive head scratcher. Like why Sony
Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart got a patch that kinda censors the already censored stuff lol. Cgs replaced and some new ones added. The Switch version will get these changed cgs and the new ones as a bonus to be viewed in the gallery.
Devs decided this is better than the super censored cgs it seems.
I guess from a visual stand point it makes sense and looks better than blinding light beams, and a fanservice scene that is heavily censored with light beams so you don't see anything kinda fails its purpose in the first place.
This whole Sony censorship story continues to be a massive head scratcher. Like why Sony
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Worth reviving this thread:
the new version of DOAX3 on PS4 will be censored, unlike the Switch version and the old PS4 version (as seen in the gematsu comparison).
the new version of DOAX3 on PS4 will be censored, unlike the Switch version and the old PS4 version (as seen in the gematsu comparison).
I thought they wouldn't put the restraints on a large publisher.
I was wrong.
Sony seriously needs to cut it out with this puritanical bullshit. Ratings boards exist for a reason; let developers make the games they want to make, and let the ratings boards decide the rating. I will not support a hardware manufacturer that excessively interferes to force developers to alter their games in ways not demanded by ratings agencies or local legislation.
Huh, interesting. The scope's getting bigger.
Edit: Wait a sec, what's the supposed censorship in this case? If it's the Soft Engine version, that doesn't sound like that's stemming from the same place as the other differences from this thread.
Are you aware of how the ESRB formed and who's part of the ESA?
No one has a clue what these regulations are exactly, so people are just making threads when something gets hit by them.
No one knows what the regulations are. Certain things are being censored in some games, but not in others. There's no consistency and Sony refuses to comment on any of it.
Yes, but this isn't ESRB, PEGI, CERO, or any other rating board or industry association's policy; it's Sony's, and Sony's alone.
Whether the ratings boards were set up by the industry or not, they have well defined rules and policies. Similarly, the legal requirements of different countries are defined through publicly available legislation. Sony's actions, by comparison, are completely opaque. There are no publicly stated guidelines, and it's uncertain if there are any even made available to publishers.
By far the biggest reason why this shit pisses me off.
Its one thing to have a case like Omega Lab where the game didn't get a rating in some places so they pulled the plug for the western release to not have a weird problematic case like that on the platform in the West. But demanding censorship for games that received a normal rating like everywhere is just complete bullshit
