It's well within Sony's rights to decide what games can and cannot be released on their platform. And publishers/developers can choose to censor their games to get them on Sony's platform or they can choose to not release them on Sony's platform. At the same time, I don't like censorship and I would much rather let the consumer decide what they want to buy. I don't like a platform holder dictating what people can and cannot purchase. We have rating boards all across the globe and we should be able to use those to determine if we are interested in a certain product. I'm all for parental controls or perhaps even a separate "adult" section on the PS Store. Those are much better solutions than forcing censorship on the publishers and consumers.
We have a huge double standard going on here. We'll never see Sony force a company like Rockstar to censor the nudity found in Red Dead. Or EA to censor the sex scenes in Dragon Age. I'm not defending all of these "groping simulators" but I do think the market should decide whether or not it wants to support those games and not the platform holders. Plus, those types of games are not the only targets of this censorship from what I can see. Sony is going to do whatever they want and maybe they won't go any further than censoring visual novels and Senran Kagura games. Personally, I'd prefer other solutions that don't involve inconsistent censorship from the whims of a single corporation.
We have a huge double standard going on here. We'll never see Sony force a company like Rockstar to censor the nudity found in Red Dead. Or EA to censor the sex scenes in Dragon Age. I'm not defending all of these "groping simulators" but I do think the market should decide whether or not it wants to support those games and not the platform holders. Plus, those types of games are not the only targets of this censorship from what I can see. Sony is going to do whatever they want and maybe they won't go any further than censoring visual novels and Senran Kagura games. Personally, I'd prefer other solutions that don't involve inconsistent censorship from the whims of a single corporation.