What advantage does censoring games have?

SJW brownie points

Hey now! That's rude.

It doesn't turn you into a sexist pig, according to feminist theory.

>being both Atheist AND a prude
I don't get these people

>cartoon children
Its not just that filthy baiter.

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>creates controversy which leads to more exposure
200 IQ moves.

it barely appeases sensitives who won't even buy your shit anyway

even if you censor in general the right type of casual faggot with high standards still isn't about to buy your game because they think they're above it, so always go all in

Atheists love judging art and censoring shit since communism became a thing in soviet russia. Censorship was a big thing under Stalin. Its an old tradition.

This.
Also, the sick fucks that want to marry and fuck cartoons get pissed.

It protects their brand from risking becoming associated with sexual games which would be a big problem for them in their 2 largest markets. You know, literally what they said.

the majority of the world's population are brainwashed to following guidelines laid out in their diety fanfics, which usually have conflicting opinions on sex
In order to keep the normies pleased they must avoid the subject of anything sexual because there is no winning in a game of "my sky daddy can beat up your sky daddy"

people resort to shitty western live action porn

Stalin's censorship was politically and paranoia motivated.

Unless you mean SocRealism. But I'm pretty sure that 90% of people on Yea Forums would agree with the rationale behind SocRealism based on the reactions contemporary art gets.

Are there any examples of censorship leading to increased sales?

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Dude, commies were so paranoid, they were censoring shit during Khruschev and Brejnev as well. So no. Atheists wanted strict control over "obscenity", its still a thing in modern china where they jailed yaoi drawing artist for 10 years or around so.

If your fellow "atheist" is left wing, he will certainly push for censorship of art.

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This shit goes all the way back to Rome, where destroying pegan iconography was common. Any side of a struggle chooses to destroy material of their enemies.

We can never know that. It's impossible to prove either way.

No
Censoring underage panty quest XIV will result in less lolicon sales and also the people whining weren't going to buy/play it anyway.

Most contemporary artists that draw the most obscene shit are to the left of Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev.

Chinese censorship is a weird mixed bag due to the companies involved usually going way beyond what party censors would actually ask for just to make sure that it goes through on the first pass.

There is no advantage whatsoever. They do it to make feminist cunts shut up, but feminist cunts will never shut up while they're alive.

I’d rather be a sexist pig than a legit rapist posing as a “Male feminist”

No
If anything most lolicon have ironically jumped shipped to either Nintendo or PC in some cases both

>Most contemporary artists that draw the most obscene shit are to the left of Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev.
So you're implying liberals we have today are actually "to the right" of those people?

none whatsoever

teach people how they identify with violence and what violent interactions mean in the context of storytelling/metaphor etc. and no one would be dumb enough to copy what they see in games anymore. easy as that.

then if a crappy game does go out of its way to be gratuitous for the sake of it, it either doesn't get released or no one buys it and that impulse dies and those games don't get made, but thankfully given the expense of game develoopment those games don't get made anyway and don't waste anyone's damn time.

They cost less money for cutting cont...

So they cofirmed, denied then reconfirmed? wtf is happening

>Suny confirms

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I'M STILL NOT SURE HOW IN AMERICA WE ARE STILL AFRAID OF SEXUAL THINGS OUTSIDE OF PORN. WE CREATED THE SEX INDUSTRY AS WE KNOW IT

It pisses off the incels and it's always amusing to see them throw their silly little tantrums.

Why Do They Capitalize Every Word?

Yes? liberalism is inherently right wing.

It's a title

this was always the case since day 1, the manuals for censorship and requirements from Sony are pretty big (not as big as Nintendo's though)
source: I failproof this kind of shit for a living

It’s for the Chinese and American market also as of 1.07 the censorship of trish’s Butt was taken out.

It actually costs more money to hire someone to go into a games code, then remove a section that was already there or to add effects to cover up that section.

I actually thought these scenes (both Lady and Trish) were very DMC-ish. Never expected it to have an uncensored version outside of PS4

I guess California is not america.

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desu I love how the people that get obsessed over censorship don't even realise how much nintendo censor.

I wish it wasn't.

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Thank these people

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He's not wrong though, most Japanese people look at that stuff and go "that's kinda disgusting" I know a bloke who went past a display with A summer nero figure and the normie Japanese people he was with called it disgusting.

Yeah but it has gotten worse.

What pricks. More for my collection, at least.

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A lot of it is saving face though. I'm not saying they all do but take America. A lot of people watch porn but few will admit it.

There's still a large market regardless. This guy is acting like it's a super niche dying industry.

>also as of 1.07 the censorship of trish’s Butt was taken out.
NOT on the EU versions.

Cannot find a source.

>this was always the case since day 1
Sony censored at least 19 games that were already cleared by rating boards worldwide after banning Omega Labyrinth Z last year. Last month, Sony officially confirmed that the reason for the spike in censorship was a puritanical policy that had been put into place thanks in part to America's #MeToo movement.

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>subhuman tranny with a dick-cut-off fetish posting on a fascist totalitarian menta illness site for the fringe freakshows of mankind that promotes child abuse, howling at the moon and sodomy is uncomfortable with drawn images

the fucking ironing...

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Why are these people such huge fucking douchebags? Seriously banning shit you personally don't like?

Sony already censored more than nintendo

Nice try though

How are they expecting to totally ban anime figures? That's a fight they'll never win.

>jailed yaoi drawing artist
Based asf. Yaoi is one of the most disgusting things ever. And I am not even homophobic.

From my understanding people do this when they want to feel morally justified with their child rape. They feel like it balances out their karma by battling this manufactured injustice while raping kids behind the scenes. At least that's what it has always ended up being. Just someone trying to barter their way to heaven when it doesn't really work that way.

It blueballs incels so they commit more mass shootings

Sony don't scrub out nearly as much, just read the first like, 6 hours of Xenoblade 2 in JP and then in EN, and you'll see that they sanitise a hell of a lot of stuff.

free marketing

Doesn't the PS4 have parity only on some regions though? I remember reading somehwere that they patched it out of the PS4 version only on the US or Europe, can't remember which now.

This post sourced by: like 2-3 people that user will point out which immediately invalidates everyone else.

It's the only way liberals can experience happiness.

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Baal worshippers hate and fear beauty

no different than being a cuckold

A better way to phrase this is that the louder a person shouts against stuff they don't like, the more likely it is that they have some internalized "guilt" for supporting it in the past or present once it's unpopular to support.

It's along the same lines of "I don't want to be seen as a 'toxic male' so I'll say I'm transitioning to a female until this all blows over, then I can say I'm a dude again"

That guy is spouting shit out of his mind

It's done to protect the snoyfags virgin eyes.
Sony knows who their audience are, if you look at any sony thread on Yea Forums you will see they are all children.

Please see

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So they'll be removing blood and gore and shit too?

its still free marketing even though its bad

Or maybe you're just trying to present them as disingenuous because that way you don't have to consider what they're saying in an honest fashion and never have to be introspective as to whether or not they have a point.

I don't get it, why the censorship on titty anime games? The audience who buys that sort of stuff are clearly not kids so what is the point of censoring them?

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But has it ever actually helped? If not, why censor niche games that were already approved for mature audiences?

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Nothing, there is no point beyond virtue signaling because they're now a Californian company. Honestly the whole state is better off being burned to the ground in their yearly wildfires

They don't want the brand to become associated with them if some soccer mom's start spotting it and kicking up a fuss.

They view them not buying timmy a playstation a greater risk than losing weebs.

Sometimes, always, what's the difference anyway?

They're not even prudes. These same people guaranteed support "sex workers," e-thots, hook-up culture, and all manner of sexual degeneracy. They just hate anything that takes attention away from them.

What, exactly, is the point of video game censorship?

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>Enter Thread
>No Persona 2 ft. Hitler with Sunglasses

I'm disappointed in all of you.

>we have a hundred million install base, many of these are children that have had PS4s bought for them by their parents, a signficant number of which are prudish mothers.
>This is correct
>We also have these ecchi games, I don't think we should risk causing a fuss, especially in the years leading up to our next console release.
>I agree, this is a risk and we don't like risk in business, these niche titles only appeal to a very small fraction of our install base who we can drag back with core exclusive titles anyway.

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Explain why Nintendo allows uncensored versions of games Sony censored, then.

They've had anime tits since the PS1 era. If that's their reasoning they should've acted a lot sooner.

Meanwhile you complain about "degeneracy" and censorship

Has anyone ever played lewd games and then gone out and raped a bunch of people? Or is this all a religious thing?

>talking about censorship here
You're wasting your time,
The majority of Yea Forums is too retarded and ignorant to know how censorship effects media (games, movies, etc) in the long run.
Inb4 this thread goes to shit just like every other censorship thread.

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When movie rental stores were still a thing, you could go in the back room and peruse a selection of pornography to rent. This in the same store where they rented Disney movies out to kids. How come no one kicked up a huge fuss about that? Why are video games different?

Nintendo isn't going to be releasing new hardware in the next few years while trying to preserve a brand name, they also don't have a fraction of Sony's install base yet. These risks scale exponentially, not linearly.

It's the other way around actually. There's no principled reason for censorship, not only is it tyrannical in the first place but it usually has the reverse of the intended effect. Hitler was heavily censored throughout the 1930s by the German government and it only made his ideology stronger as a result.
It's the fear that someone might present an argument or an idea that you can't counter or control so you assume that if you silence it you defeat it.
The only reason anyone enforces this kind of censorship is out of ignorance, it's a fool who doesn't know what they're doing, or it's malice, someone who is aware of the chaos they're attempting to incite and fully happy to go down that road.

The only good PS4 game besides anime shit is Bloodborne. The rest of it is garbage. I even played half of it, like HZ:D, Spiderman and RDR2 (which isn't even an exclusive I think.)

It's all grandiose trash. I don't even hate Western stuff. GTAV was pretty good and the new DOOM was great, but Sony games are boring fucking slogs. Why would I fucking buy the console if it doesn't have exclusive rights to nip ding dang titties: 2? It's all I care about the shit for.

They did, that's why towards the end of the life of rental stores, you didn't see those things.

Not entirely true, Sony were pretty strict even during the PS2 when they wanted to be. It's only really in the late ps3-most of ps4 that they've scaled back on that massively.

It makes weebs upset and basically you're fucking stupid.
Have sex
IT'S OKAY WHEN NINTENDO DOES IT

>I don't think we should risk causing a fuss
Then Sony should've left well enough alone. Now everyone knows what kinds of games Sony once allowed.

>Hitler was heavily censored throughout the 1930s by the German government and it only made his ideology stronger as a result.
He was not censored enough. The establishment was on his side and only made some token efforts to look like they were trying to do something about him. I support censorship for the simple reason that the simple lie often appeals far more to people than the nuanced truth.

As anyone ever said they're buying a PS5 because niche games are getting censored? I've only seen the opposite so far.

>Hitler was heavily censored throughout the 1930s by the German government

What are you smoking? the only times he was "censored" were when he was literally committing crimes. Schmitt even wrote about this.

No they don't. A subset of people most of whom already knew do. The people who are relevant to sony don't.

you get to sell your games in china

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He was banned from public speaking.

Because you're in the circles which this is immediately relevant to, we've been effectively thrown under the bus to ensure that Sony don't risk pissing of their important demographics.

It sucks, but understanding why it's happening is important because if you don't, you can't have a proper conversation about it, and you end up some moron frothing at the mouth about "Californian SJWs" instead of calculated corporate decision making throwing niche audiences under the bus with the assumption they can just get them back with Bloodborne 2 or it's ilk.

After he tried to coup the Bavarian government with Ludendorff.

Not for long.

What does that have to do with a ban on public speaking?
He paid for his crimes in jail time.

>calculated corporate decision

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That was part of the sentencing, and as it has been said, it was a 2 year ban.

Damn that new Senran Kagura games is looking hella tight!

>dangers of being associated with...

Yes thank you for agreeing with me.

I wouldn't say it's that calculated when they've done a sloppy job of outlining what and what isn't censored

Well you can justify censorship in all sorts of ways, my point was that it happened and it wasn't just ineffective at preventing his rise to power, it was necessary to facilitate it.

HE COMMITTED HIGH TREASON!

He got off with a bloody slap on the wrist. What the fuck are you talking about?

I hope it was worth it to Sony because I was going to buy 5 on the PS4 since thats where I'd recently played 1-4 in preparation but them censoring the PS4 version made me buy it on PC instead.

Yet the presence of uncensored games on the Switch has not hampered its sales or sullied Nintendo's reputation. If Sony cared only about making easy money, they would have let these niche games release quietly to the once loyal demographic that was always there to buy them before Sony shit the bed.

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This one at least got patched out outside of Europe.

>it was necessary to facilitate it
Bollocks.

What dangers, user? Few knew these games even existed before Sony interfered.

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If they kept letting him speak people would have continued to hear how stupid he was.
Shutting him up was the worst thing they could do.

This shit again. The argument always go back to why are they censoring that when you’re killing people and doing other depraved shit but oh no an asscheek. What the fuck is wrong with hame companies. Their viewpoints are retarded. Or the ones who want to make money I mean.

I just said these risks scale exponentially, when the switch has a comparable install base I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they made a similar decision at NoA too. That is unless they end up with almost only the 24+ market, which wouldn't surprise me desu, as it's been heavily marketed towards mid 20s-mid 30s.

>atheist is the same as being a communist
Fuck off retard.

Yes, but all it takes is a bit of a bee hive to get kicked up and they risk their stranglehold on parents.

You're the guy in charge of making these decisions, do you risk that?

>If they kept letting him speak people would have continued to hear how stupid he was.
Do you actually think that's what the fucking issue was

Like the problem was that people DIDN'T agree with Hitler's rhetoric but because they hadn't actually heard it they just assumed he had good points for some reason?

But Nintendo's the one with the "kiddy" image who has traditionally tried to market themselves as being for all ages. Maybe they realize that "all ages" includes adults too.

>do you risk that?
Risk what? Free marketing?

>do you risk mothers for years refusing to buy timmy a playstation because of them titty games and instead going back to xbox.

That's the risk.

You are literally the exact person Schmitt wrote about when he talked about how Liberalism could be used to kill liberalism.

I feel that after the WiiU nintendo decided that they would do better with a clear message focusing on people who owned their consoles in the past. And I think that's good, and that they're doing a lot of good stuff. But I can respect that as the market leader, sony have the most to lose if controversy around them kicks up right as they want to start going into next gen.

This

>mothers for years refusing to buy timmy a playstation because of them titty games and instead going back to xbox
How often does this happen? Especially over games/series women and children likely never heard of before. If worse came to worse, Sony could simply tell parents about rating boards and parental controls (something Nintendo already did themselves).

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>That's the risk.
Just like how mothers ever stopped buying Nintendo stuff because these games are there? Senran Kagura literally started as a 3DS game and that was never true.

Not to mention, parents out there are much more worried over their children being exposed to homosexual/transexual content than a bit of female skin.

they get praise from the coordinated commie gaming press and censored reddit forums

I'm personally done with sony. I only got a ps4 to play p5 and the yakuza games, played nothing else on that shitbox anyway.

It pleases the liberals who don't play the games.

But it might, you have to imagine yourself making a decision which could be worth hundreds of millions. The censorship stuff has been happening basically invisibly to the general public. But stories about kids finding sex in video games has gone on mainstream news before.

Don't think I'm defending this, I think that censorship for the sake of not risking profitability is the worst kind. But it's important to see WHY it happens.

What sony fans tend to forget is that all modern consoles have parental controls, so If Mommy is so worried her little snoyboi could play a titty game, she can block the console from playing it.

Reminder no one gives a shit except a small minority of weeb incels.

Liberals are a majority of the people who play games.

Doesn't matter. No big company will bank on their customers actually displaying intelligence or competence. Expecting parents to actually know about parental controls or how to use them is assuming they're above the lowest common denominator, so it's a non-starter.

yeah just look at how good battlefield V sold after all the atention it got

the frequency.

Lmao. No, Sony gave in for America because people bitched. Poor Europe is too far gone and still has it censored

>hiding the best looking part of the model

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Just that one time. And I had a cold so my head was a little fuzzy and it didn't count. She completely understood the error and didn't think anything of it after I explained myself while wiping my cock off on her skirt.

The problem is "sexually explicit content", by their ideals, is usually not sexual at all. It's just idol nudity or sexy clothes. I don't think anyone would be crying fowl if they censored animated 3D hardcore anal intercourse in a game, complete with sound. We'd be like "well, yeah, that kind of makes sense. censorship sucks, but at least I can understand the reasoning in this case" ... but a naked ass, exposed thigh, or tight shirt? There's no defending that. It's simply bullshit to censor stuff that has nothing to do with explicit sex.

>1.) 50,000,000 tweets from morbidly obese feminists and trannies claiming they were raped 12 times in the last month by men and boys looking at them lustfully (note: this was disgust, not lust), and 3 tweets from real women who were legitimately victims of sexuall assault including genital penetration by an aggravated offender.

>2,) Japan is the NORMAL ones. Americans are the ones that are assbackwards.

In both cases, Sony is being absolute dumbfucks and making sweeping changes to corporate policies based on shit they read on Twitter and clickbait headlines with no basis in reality. They have no fucking clue what gamers want and how they want to be represented.

This is the real answer. Sony is after the billions of dollars they can squeeze out of a billion chinamen and is attacking from all possible fronts (movies, video games, electronics)