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@TheTrollVtuber23 күн бұрын
PSS head is so full of it. If you really loved Japanese games you wouldn't be censoring ANYTHING and butchering the localization
@1Enclave22 күн бұрын
Didn't Sony shut down their Japanese dev studio?
@Gruntvc22 күн бұрын
Not only that, but they chased many of the indie Japanese developers to Nintendo.
@orga777722 күн бұрын
Or shutting down Japan Studio aka the folks who made Ape escape series and Shadow of the colossus just to name a few.
@RobboGLDBZ21 күн бұрын
Sony is owned almost 10% by Blackrock. You can move Sony to the Moon, it will still be like this. It doesn't matter where the headquarters are
@draxrdax732122 күн бұрын
California, but in space?
@MGrey-qb5xz22 күн бұрын
Clearly we are going to have to deal with Black Rock, Vanguard and the banks. They seem to be the DEI and ESG enforcers.
@mal35m22 күн бұрын
The HQ is in Japan, SCIE is in California.
@blumiu242622 күн бұрын
So YTministryoftruth didn't like my comment of what must be done. Too bad. Too much power in too few hands.
@mal35m22 күн бұрын
Then why not disconnect yourself from Blackrock or just have Blackrock get hacktively bankrupt and then your free!
@WeirdLankovich22 күн бұрын
Japenese people already knows Sony is no more a japanese company
@Alex25456123 күн бұрын
Like most big japanese compnaies too.
@velhesvalden130922 күн бұрын
Sony go bankrupt if not for being kept afloat by Japaneses Tax Money given to them by the Japanese Government.
@aj.j583322 күн бұрын
Are you forgetting that Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment are not the same, but one is a branch of the other? Playstation went to California, not Sony HQ.
@blumiu242622 күн бұрын
@@blumiu2426 What about their film studio? The same one that made Wahmen Ghostbusters and Madame Web
@mr.awesome601122 күн бұрын
@@mr.awesome6011 I believe that too has a Western branch, it would have to if a studio is in America. I'm not sure how old you are if you're puzzled why Sony has been producing Western films.
@blumiu242622 күн бұрын
Japan has already disowned Sony tho
@DanteCrowlley23 күн бұрын
I remember that article
@samfisherxboxog892523 күн бұрын
I remember hearing that.
@chinyang120022 күн бұрын
This is true
@Just_a_random_who_likes_stuff22 күн бұрын
Damn, really?
@yurichtube116222 күн бұрын
Oh so what we have today is American Sony and not Japans???
@danteshollowedgrounds22 күн бұрын
Sony is the perfect mix of Japanese bureaucracy and American wokeism. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
@Snakedude4life23 күн бұрын
A truly toxic concoction.
@ShadiC63622 күн бұрын
@@ShadiC636 Poisonous to the extreme.
@stevekramerf24222 күн бұрын
Worst of both worlds
@Alpha13yt22 күн бұрын
Yeah, a Japanese company. And I have a Buff gigachad body
@sergioochoa91323 күн бұрын
Why are you hiding bodies?
@christianlasala760323 күн бұрын
Abby noooooooooo
@hatorihanzo343122 күн бұрын
If Sony still loves Japan, then why did they reverse the circle and x buttons on their Japanese customers?
@TheLeadElite22 күн бұрын
Yech, that was in my muscle memory since PSX and the best part? You can select which style of O&X you like in PS4 but not in 5??? This is my deal breaker and StallerBlade situataion isnt help me want to get Ps5 much too.
@Leturane22 күн бұрын
That was under the last CEO, so we’ll have to see if the knew one continues in this direction
@reinsmano22 күн бұрын
If they loved Japan bring back Senran Kagura you unfairly banned it
@LeonTheSaint4422 күн бұрын
They did what???
@canaldecasta22 күн бұрын
@@canaldecasta everywhere else, when we would press x to do most everything in a game, for Japan, they always used o. I guess Sony Japan switched em on them to force them to be like the rest of the world.
@tonyb761522 күн бұрын
Power. The only thing they understand, POWER. There is no morals, no ethics, no respect, no understanding, just Power.
@sand585722 күн бұрын
As is to be expected from people with an unhealthy attachment style. Seriously, they’re like toddlers.
@Dinoslay22 күн бұрын
The Will To Power by Nietzche perfectly explains the reasons why Leftists do the things they fo.
@LouisIXLeGrandDieudonne-pb4dj22 күн бұрын
The Will To Power by Nietzche perfectly explains the reasons why Leftists do the things they do.
@LouisIXLeGrandDieudonne-pb4dj22 күн бұрын
As expected of people with an unhealthy attachment style.
@Dinoslay22 күн бұрын
"Strength without Love is meaningless!" -Space Channel 5 Part 2
@mitchellalexander916222 күн бұрын
Censorship is all about power and by showing them we are weak they have more fun bullying us.
@aj.j583322 күн бұрын
"Very much Japanese" LOL, LMAO even.
@dandare905523 күн бұрын
ROFL, ROFLMAO even
@HenshinFanatic22 күн бұрын
With a dash of XD
@malicekerendu357422 күн бұрын
reminds me of the "very bri'ish youth"
@thefool822422 күн бұрын
UWU LUL OMGEALUL
@watchmehope656022 күн бұрын
Yeah, Sony may say to themselves there still a “Japanese Company”, but not even the JAPANESE likes them anymore. They have become a hollow joke of themselves. The Stellar Blade Censorship is just their latest fiasco….
@gamerkingdom144222 күн бұрын
I remember that headline and how nobody bought it. Japanese companies don’t have the reassure people that they’re “still” Japanese. Nor do they move their HQ out of Japan…
@newdivide988222 күн бұрын
Yes. A Japanese company whose headquarters is in Californyanya and worships THE MESSAGE
@zeorhymer622 күн бұрын
The Playstation 3 was Sony's last Japanese console and last significant tie to it's home country.
@The_Last_Data_Hound23 күн бұрын
Yep. Ps3 had alot of good jrpgs
@1Enclave22 күн бұрын
Ps4 had some good stuff too like Nioh, kiseki, omega quintet (underrated, it is not a garbage CH moeblob game, the battle mechanics are effing awsome like valkyrie profile 2 once you get a full party), etc. However halfway thru its lifespan japanese game devs woke up and started making good ports to pc. So at this point getting a ps4 is silly, but there was a time it had many faithful japanese games the pc did not have.
@Ghalion66622 күн бұрын
Most of the "Japanese" or "asian" dev studios have either had their local non-american studios closed or their american branch is completely americanized and not a single "true" employee remains. The sad fact is modern america is a cultural symbiote that takes something and slowly corrupts it and degrades it until its "americanized". This has been a fact since the early 2010's.
@sixmillionisimpossible23 күн бұрын
The early 80s was the start.
@dwainsimmons344723 күн бұрын
@@dwainsimmons3447 not entirely. It wasn't until the book "Shogun" was released to the public that sushi became popular in the US.
@sixmillionisimpossible23 күн бұрын
@@sixmillionisimpossible Provide proof of that please.
@rallyfeind22 күн бұрын
It's always been the case. Japan and American devs have been oil and water since the start. They were antagonistic toward one another in the 2000s.
@blumiu242622 күн бұрын
It started with American christians and it's now American atheists. The problem is American culture.
@malicekerendu357422 күн бұрын
A "Japanese Company"... which has Californian values. Because it is headquartered in California.
@magetsalive516222 күн бұрын
You mean Jewish values
@windrider97022 күн бұрын
@@windrider970 Specific people kinds of rich people, who happen to be Jewish. That is how I see it, and I have a habit which is being adjusted to not happen. Over-generalizing
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
@@thecompareablezombie Hmm, their comment got removed, they must have hit the nail on the head, afterall, pattern recognition is a thing.
@jozefrockatansky158822 күн бұрын
Sony is culturally a Californian company, my Japanese friends point out how much they invest and focus on the internationally-appealing games as opposed to domestic IPs? 🤔
@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs22 күн бұрын
Why is Cali okay with nudity in western games then? Why is it only Asian games? Are they trying to save us from "orientalism" or some shit? (Not angry at you, just confused at the circumstances)
@The_Mongoose22 күн бұрын
@@The_Mongoose Apologies in advance for my long explanation! 🙏 I think there's such a thing as _positive sexuality_ and _negative sexuality,_ as you say, we do see explicitly sexual content in Western games (I can only think of Last Of Us 2 atm, and I haven't played BG:III yet), but I think it really sits with who gets to decide what is considered positive or negative? My feeling is that there are a couple reasons why in particular TLoU2 wasn't censored; 1) Because it's a big flagship game, it's Sony's chance to legitimise games as a form of media that can do whatever tv and film can, thus advertising to more potential investors. 2) In the case of TLoU2, you need only look at Abigail's appearance, she's not what most would consider traditionally attractive, and we all see the body positivity movement, the Dove gamer-girls advert, female characters made uglier (The Horizon Zero Dawn devs actually admitted that was the case for their game in an interview). And so, I think there are groups backed by ESG/DEI that have the agenda of normalising and putting non-traditionally attractive women at the forefront, even though as humans we all prefer things that are more aesthetically pleasing than not. - We do also see this same group of people who share the same politics in different industries too, such as translations for animé. They often see mistranslating and changing the original context as justifiable, that often times Japanese (and now Korean) culture is inherently problematic/chauvinistic /politically incorrect, and they deem it unsuitable for western audiences so they take a self-righteous stance thinking they're doing the world a favour, and that censoring and changing this 'wrong' content is perfectly ok to do, the original creator's intentions be damned as the translator's cause is more morally just (and in this case, it's not a matter of interpretation either, I'm a native Japanese speaker and I notice this mistranslation occasionally when I see the subtitles.) This is just my opinion though developed from my understanding of the current entertainment industry and internet politics! 😂
@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs22 күн бұрын
@@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs While reading, Positive and negative Sexuality is fitting. Ever heard of Safe horny/safe Edgy? the first point I agree with, it is sad some things are being accepted in a Cherry picking sort of way. Second point works too, I am not sure to buy the first one knowing the Forbidden West has ruined the main woman of the game. While Abi's appearance is annoying considering people say its realistic. Did play the first Last of Us as a rental it was okay. Said people are one side of politics. For the time being no one is talking about Critical thinking when understanding media. I am bringing up Media Literacy, it won't be for too long. Ever heard Mangakamen? He talked about it and has given advice, check out his media Literacy is dead video. He made good points, I am not mentioning the meat and potatoes of the video. In order to not cheat you out of the information you get from it. Indeed there is mistranslations and changes of the text, which is annoying plain and simple. Sadly there parts of America which view Asian Countries as evil among other descriptions. Said people don't have a religion there is no higher power only the state. What is being typed needs work on my end. I can't say why bringing up the religious or political part, although will mention this: People with Strong views are not easy to change their mind. Side note and question, have you checked out Uzaki-chan wants to hang out? I wish you a wonderful day and or any other time, when the comment is responded to.
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
@@thecompareablezombie I wish everyone was as cordial as you in the KZhead comments section and that one day we can all just enjoy stuff like we used to like 9 years ago 😂 Mangakamen is a KZhead channel? Will check out their videos thank you! 🙂🙏 -And no I've not seen the Uzaki-chan animé or read the manga yet! She's the girl with the humongous booba right? 😂 I'm currently watching Dungeon Meshi! If you still have a free Sunday where you are I highly recommend! 😁👍 Take care wherever you are too! 🙂🙏
@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs22 күн бұрын
@@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs Understandable, I do what is possible to be polite. There have been times when I have been stupid. More people do need to enjoy their content at times, while being able to view it on a deeper level when its applicable. You are welcome, he makes good points Mr Kamen/MagnaKamen. Uzaki-chan is a college girl who is one year younger than her Senpai, she is free spirited and had a view about Chocolate chip Ice cream, each manga chapter is not too long until you get to the opinion, and it is in season 1 set of chapters. I am watching Dungeon Meshi too, it is an enjoyable high or medium fantasy. Shows how people would enjoy their food when in a pinch. One of the episodes had a partial cursed, but it was good to not have been a full on plant humanoid woman. I will make sure to take care, best regards.
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
Actions speak louder than words, Soyny California.
@rodrigofaria910922 күн бұрын
Sony forced Senra kuraga franchise devs to quit with their censorships -
@epikhigh9722 күн бұрын
Playstation is a Californian company.
@LordFoxxyFoxington22 күн бұрын
Yeah Sony so Japanese they close their own Japan studio, their only first party Japanese Dev to some capacity.
@soulezwan26623 күн бұрын
They did that under Jim Ryan. The CEO now is a Japanese man so we’ll see if any changes are made
@reinsmano22 күн бұрын
@@reinsmano same thing still happen look at stellar blade
@zerosam554122 күн бұрын
@@reinsmanothere's no change at all, look at what happened.
@shen553322 күн бұрын
"Very much Japanese" proceed to close the japanese studio lol
@wandinugraha431022 күн бұрын
Remember they announced Stellar Blade had "gone GOLD" a couple weeks before? Going gold means ALL stakeholders (including publisher and platform owner) agreed that particular version of the game is FINAL, and physical copies can start to be made.
@yogiwp_22 күн бұрын
''Very much Japanese'' Right and i'm straight
@Just_a_random_who_likes_stuff22 күн бұрын
And not a furry
@blueshellincident22 күн бұрын
@@blueshellincident Ever seen a straight furry? It's a rhetorical question.
@Baron_Wurst21 күн бұрын
Sony is already Sonifornia the moment their HQ moved to California. Gonna love californian man jaw right?
@RappyGrinder22 күн бұрын
It's simple. Sony gave Shift-up a list of changes based on pre-release review complaints, which includes removing HARD-R and toning down the sexy. This is not an unusual practice. Problem is they listened to the wrong reviewers.
@yogiwp_22 күн бұрын
Correct.
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
It's unfortunate that the ones they listened to are the minorities who won't even buy and their games.
@sacredpower753022 күн бұрын
When you replace a word that only Americans can find "offensive," even though it's not what they thought it was, they go out of their way to censor it and force a studio to replace it. They don't love Japanese games; they have been censoring them nonstop, and the trash localizations that they make don't help their case either. Also, hiring a Canadian studio to sanitize every single one of your games shows how much of a liar that head of PlayStation Studios is. Lying is something people no longer tolerate. You can't gaslight gamers anymore.
@Cevanth22 күн бұрын
I laughed when they said sony is still Japanese 💀💀
@GHOXT2722 күн бұрын
One thing is that it seems like Sony is accepting refund requests for Stellar Blade if you claim it is because of those changes (that Sony probably pressured Shift Up into making). It feels like active sabotage and some sort of vengeance because Stellar Blade's success exposes the woke grift for what it is.
@viniciuslorenzini719523 күн бұрын
There is a chance that they know if anyone brings a class action discovery would show that SONY forced the changes so easier to issue refunds then get a lawsuit that would expose the activist shit.
@braddl944222 күн бұрын
It will just make the games that we don't like or wanr fail harder.
@mr.awesome601122 күн бұрын
Pretty much, the bad decision was made way back then, when they accepted Sony funding, turning what would have been a multi platform game (if i'm not mistaken, PS4/5, XBox and PC) into a PS5 exclusive.
@viniciuslorenzini719522 күн бұрын
Its is not enough that corruption is recognized. Its must be opposed. it is not enough that ignorance is acknowledged. It must be defied. Win or Loose what matters is making a stand for the vurtues we wish to bequeath to the human race. Otherwise you will hold a worthless prize with humanity lead into moral darkness.
@astroviking341423 күн бұрын
#freestellarblade #cancelPSN
@fdnfdnasd771422 күн бұрын
#freestellarblade
@watchmehope656022 күн бұрын
#cancelPSN
@AntiRiku21 күн бұрын
Last time when Sony belonged to the Japanese, the multiplayer was still free, which is since ps3. Now you have to pay 60 £ for ps plus in order to play online
@Cozonac300022 күн бұрын
Sony hasn't been a Japanese company ever since they moved their HQ to California.
@christianedwards902522 күн бұрын
Their American branch is in California I think...their Japanese branch kinda operates differently (for one thing they censored the TLOU2 sex scene).
@Miyakolover22 күн бұрын
@@Miyakolover Which was an understandable choice. Now to the side: Censoring either violent or sexual themes is dumb. The sex scene doesn't happen in anime themed RPGs. Am partially sure Modern day Puritans exist in various positions of power.
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
@@thecompareablezombie They do, but I think the Japanese Sony branch might have censored TLOU2 in retaliation to the wokes at California constantly censoring Japanese games.
@Miyakolover22 күн бұрын
DUDE SONY got taken over by CALIFORNIANS years ago. The movies got taken over in the later 90s early 2000s, and the games HQ got moved to cali like 10 years ago and the japanese have almost no real input into what the USA branch is doing.
@braddl944222 күн бұрын
Replace the word "censorship" with "uselessness". So when I censor alcohol depiction in my nation what I'm saying is "I'm useless on the subject of alcohol", yes even in Saudi Arabia. Also if I try to mind meld with the Sony Execs here's what I'd rationalize about Stellar Blade. "I took a petty dickhead stance against the fandom because these are my ESG principals. Therefore it's ok I got no real work done so you Mr.Fink can pay me my next bonus with full confidence" They can sit on their ass for a month doing nothing else, and they'd still consider it a job well done, it's their wed dream.
@retroman325222 күн бұрын
IMO, Sony quit being Japanese when they outsourced to California. The worst mistake they could have ever made.
@dogwoodhillbilly22 күн бұрын
"Who are you going to believe? Me or your own lying eyes?!" - S0ny's current head of PSS Who does he thinks he's fooling? I mean aside from whoever is still foolish enough to still be giving money to 50ny
@Mirthful_Midori22 күн бұрын
IF the publisher does not toe the line, does not do what the journalists want, they will start reporting on it, things like bad work environments, harassment etc. IF the publisher does end up toeing the line, does what the journalists want, they will defend ALL of their behavior, even ignore the so-called bad behavior they reported on prior. - Just look at EA, journalists hated it. Suddenly they stopped reporting on it (I wonder why) and when Dead Space 3 came out the journalists defended the microtransactions and called gamers that used an exploit in the game thieves. - What about World of Tanks. The developer targeted a KZhead channel, had it closed down for a while. Journalists reported on it claiming the KZheadr used bad words. In reality the KZheadr talked about the new Tank, Ammo and scummy practices. I remember posting on Kotaku: _"Yeah, that's nice and all, but what about that Golden Tank and Ammo stuff."_ because *not a single game journalist brought it up.*
@MichelBoryoku22 күн бұрын
Beign a game journalist now means all your money comes from companies paying you to report only what they want, mainstream media is basically wortless now. We lost true journalism a long time ago.
@adrianocs422 күн бұрын
Remember when they said that the game "wouldn't be censored" in Japan? This is how I think it went: Japan made some requests for toning the game down in some areas in order not to give it a Cero Z and then someone at Sony convinced, or ordered Shift Up to apply those changes worldwide, with the excuse that they are pretty minor. Economic considerations also come to mind. Remember how they said that the Japanese audio wouldn't be on the disc? This is probably because they were planning a separate version for Japan, maybe fearing that the Japanese one would have to be censored even more. But having to maintain a single version of the game worldwide is a money saver.
@DioBrando-qr6ye22 күн бұрын
Censorship is about control and power! Control and power over both the studios and the consumers.
@Gilsao15720 күн бұрын
Sony and Patreon are a joke. And April Fool's is only once a year. Even on that day, no one laughs at these companies in ridicule.
@MegamanGuy44422 күн бұрын
"We make games for everyone" "Then have censorship toggles so people can choose" "No"
@AntiRiku21 күн бұрын
How about Playstation returns their HQ back to Japan?
@yufeng170722 күн бұрын
They are just as Japanese as the Kamikoto knife were. In the name they are Japanese, but everything else is not. Steam is more Japanese friendly than Sony which is ironic.
@Barni221222 күн бұрын
Eh, there isn't that much of a difference between Steamingpile and Soyny.
@HenshinFanatic22 күн бұрын
@@HenshinFanatic That is true
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
"Loves Japanese games" yeah and I'm Queen of England 🤣
@NetBattler22 күн бұрын
You hit the nail on the head. The woke crowd was upset by this game, by the idea of it not having any censorship, and the woke games journalists worked to get something, ANYTHING to stick. Just to antagonize the player base.
@madjik197922 күн бұрын
People knew they were no longer a Japanese company when they moved the HQ for one of there branches to California.
@cledgefenrir568121 күн бұрын
Nah. For me it just makes my view on Sony worst. It's already rock bottom anyway. For now, I still support Shift Up. I'll just spend on Nikke instead of buying a PS5 for Stellar Blade. Who knows how Shift Up will be in the future as they went public. Maybe another Blizzard etc. I'll enjoy it while I can.
@DraxFyre22 күн бұрын
Just know shift up has censored Nikki before. But it got backlash and undone, apparently
@watchmehope656022 күн бұрын
it actually amazes me they bother. do they actually think people listen to what they SAY rather than what they DO?
@TheMeta14122 күн бұрын
They love Japanese games, but shut down every first party Japanese dev studio except Team Asobi. 🤷♂️
@streetmagik310522 күн бұрын
No global operating company is a *[insert nationality here]* company. That ship has sailed like 20 years ago. For every country/nationality.
@raketensven312723 күн бұрын
Don’t forget censorship from the activists and journalists, less you risk them tanking your game sales, getting one of the other censors to drop you anyway, or targeting your home life, like getting you fired, expelled, evicted, reputation assassination, etc (maybe even vandalism or physical assault).
@dragonturtle270322 күн бұрын
'All I can think of is that they were trying to antagonize their customer base' YES. Also, back during the Sony/M$ fued over CoD, I heard it mentioned that in the documents/emails that were leaked from that, that M$ was trying to seed Nintendo's board. It's a common strategy. Kinda wish more people shined light on that aspect when it happened.
@riptmangleshank428621 күн бұрын
There is a lot of that still blame shift up for the censoring and not sony which is crazy
@deadpoolf121 күн бұрын
Sony clearly got Stellar Blade censored out of spite. They were also were hoping to sabotage Shift Up.
@VileGlory22 күн бұрын
It's over for sony.
@scottmckinney632818 күн бұрын
The reason they wanted to censor Stellar Blade was to make it unattractive to those that like sexy women, so the sales will lag and the game/developer gets dropped. Essentially, theyre banking on all the headlines saying CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED to scare off Stellar Blade's core audience so that the developer is forced to cater to the woke, basically. At least, that's my theory. Journalists want the game to fail, so theyre using our own psychology against us.
@DarkKnightCuron21 күн бұрын
Censorship is also akin to sabotage. Sony may be using censorship has an unfair business practice to manipulate the gaming market. Since they do show a bias against certain games from where they are made. Someone more versed in business law and practice would be better suited to look into it.
@adamcartrette403722 күн бұрын
Thank you for bringing this up, only part you kinda got wrong is that it wasn't a day 1 patch. The disc had version 1.00, early reveiwers got 1.01 and then the patch on release was ver 1.02. The costume was censored in ver 1.01. Either way we don't know why the censorship happened when the game already went gold, normally Sony give big sellers a pass on content. I think it probably has to do with global release, maybe some region demanded changes? They said it would be uncensored in Japan, it removed gore from Eve's body in a acene. Who knows what other entities got involved. They censored NIKKE for certain markets, could be the same in this case.
@Aurkus2322 күн бұрын
Sony is Japanese by history, but no longer Japanese by heart and soul.
@leonchok78419 күн бұрын
There are multiple layers of censorship and all the censors answer to the same masters. The more money is involved the less consideration is given to the experience of those who despise censorship but in the end it is the choice of the dev studio. @5:35 In a close to ideal situation for the banks, probably but that is not really the case anymore.
@worldhello123422 күн бұрын
We gamers in Australia have been screwed over since the 90s. We never had an R18+ rating until 2013 when we finally got one, but then the classification board found other reasons to censor games and that was when ESG and DEI agendas took hold.
@TBoneTony22 күн бұрын
I think they should have sent censored version to the journos.
@asumazilla22 күн бұрын
And that’s why double A are blooming, cause they don’t take too much resources
@chinjianle26922 күн бұрын
Who owns the governments and the banks?
@FreezePeach198421 күн бұрын
The payment processors are the weak link. If you can get a class action against them then the money can flow to non-infested creators. They have a limited monopoly are VERY exposed to discrimination lawsuits.
@Zero_250022 күн бұрын
A japanese company censoring a korean game. :D Everyone knows what is happening but few have the balls to tell how it is. :)))
@RealityCheck696922 күн бұрын
yup ,very sad
@iamLI316 күн бұрын
The problem is that plenty of the calls are coming from inside the house now. If you have employees in your company who want to push The Message (tm) through your games, they'll gladly team up with any of the entities you mentioned to sabotage your project. I think what the Stellar Blade censorship is meant to communicate to players is that, even if a team manages to work within the current system to get a game like that out the door, they'll still do everything they can to take it away from you even after release.
@otakubullfrog166522 күн бұрын
I have a feeling if Sony just shuts down its California office which operates as a quasi-political activist organization, I think all this stuff would go away.
@chadwolf384022 күн бұрын
Its kinda sad when you think about it that beloved Rockstar are ashemd of their masterclass game Manhunt. How low can you get? And everyone is losing their mind over GTA6? Why? Its going to be woke garbage not the same spirit as used to be like older titles.
@sauliusvekteris52622 күн бұрын
We're up to verse 4 of the Narcissist's Prayer: That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. (STELLAR BLADE FANS, YOU ARE HERE) And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
@asaka61622 күн бұрын
Yup which is annoying and punch-worthy the individual person of power's bank account.
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
Sony probably didn't want to show weakness. To don't risk that other game companies wouldn't easily agree to be censored like in the past because Stellar Blade avoided it.
@user-wc9hh8wi4e22 күн бұрын
I think it's time we make our own shit. The tech has come to a point people can start making there own shit.
@BlackHoleOfTime21 күн бұрын
There is a work around for steam, not sure if will be easily implementable for more complex games but many of the lewd games offer external patch downloads to return the steam version to the intended release version. Yes its more work for the user but this will allow devs to get steam money while still giving users what they want.
@ejc8322 күн бұрын
You can take sony out of California, but you can‘t take California out of blackrock, and you can‘t take sony from blackrock. 😞
@zawarudo899121 күн бұрын
I learnt a new term today. It's 'Sonifornia'. If it doesn't nia-nia you, it nia-nias me.
@vghr610021 күн бұрын
i love the point you made in the first part of the video, as for sony's part, dude, they do this to A LOT of eastern games, like DMC5 on playstation had censored butts.
@MultiAFroDuck22 күн бұрын
Sony started being this bad when Xbox was pushed out of market. When Xbox and Sony had competetive market back in the day, sony was trying everything to pull customers to them. After they started buying rights to certain IPs, they stopped caring because they are monopoly on consoles now. Same would be with Steam if Epic didnt roll around.
@ExtremeMan1022 күн бұрын
It really is the platforms that is the current gatekeeper of games, and they are gatekept by the banks. But they still do not have complete control, and some things will get through the filters.
@haraldbredsdorff269923 күн бұрын
Yeah its called pc gaming lol
@M_CFV22 күн бұрын
PSP and PS Vita handhelds were the last of SONY being a Japanese focused publisher. SONY stopped being a Japanese publisher when they allowed SONY of America control the PlayStation brand in 2017.
@TBoneTony22 күн бұрын
For money, only a percentage will refund over this and sony appears to be aware of this and is refunding those who ask.
@quaroth21 күн бұрын
Payment can be solved with cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin lightning, maybe Dash. Also BTCPay server. Governments often block only things which are for minors.
@NoidoDevКүн бұрын
I am going to release my game on torrents anonymously and tell the players to share the game with their friends privately. No one is going to stop me
@bngprojectofficial341822 күн бұрын
When they stop putting the califor- nya nyas in control and actually watch what there western studio does with there company than things might get better until then. Nope!
@SirSwordguy22 күн бұрын
Just recently I've learned that you can no longer have red cross on your medkits. Red Cross (the organization) no longer allows to have red crosses (the image) unless you are approved by them. Apparently Doom (the 90-s game) now was changed to have pills on medkits instead of red crosses.
@alexanderwsm629621 күн бұрын
Bro...Shift up must have known this was coming down from Sony.
@rpscorp945722 күн бұрын
Sony is old Nintendo, and Nintendo is old Sony
@degrengolada236022 күн бұрын
Funny and sad at different angles you look at it.
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
There's no way Stellar Blade developers didn't see it coming. It's more likely they knew the game was going to be censored anyway, but still kept advertising it like it wasn't going to suffer any interference from SONY.
@Herandro_just_Herandro22 күн бұрын
Just ask Japanese devs how they fared getting their games approved in the past decade.
@decorumlopez914722 күн бұрын
People should refund the game over it. The lewdness of the game was one of the main selling points.
@aaakitsune22 күн бұрын
Sony masters bowing down to the system, doing this was more of a ritual than anything else, it is not what I believe, is what they believe and their masters ;-)
@Warbreak3r22 күн бұрын
Always thought mature was adult only, smh.
@jmw1982blue22 күн бұрын
Ah ok
@thecompareablezombie22 күн бұрын
You know what, I just realized that since Shift Up is a Korean company, it is highly likely that Sony screwed them over because of the animosity/racism that still exists between Koreans and Japanese. I don't think Sony was out to upset the players or fans of the company specifically, but it was the company itself that they wanted to harm. Which is why the game had all the uncensored content all the way up to a week before the game came out, and suddenly right before they send out the review copies they had to censor the game, which is why the games journalists got version 1.0.0.1 copies which had the censorship, and people who pre-ordered the physical disk got the 1.0.0.0 copy which was uncensored.
@Hirome_Satou22 күн бұрын
Sony loves censorship tho? They did it to dmc5 and dead or alive. Research that. Tldr: a blinding light over exposed butts and bewwbs for lady and Trish for a few scenes, and no bikinis. But backlash made them remove it
@watchmehope656022 күн бұрын
More like the racism between California and East Asia.
@drunkmonkgar443619 күн бұрын
Make Sony Asian-exclusive Again
@reikanou-issen21 күн бұрын
Sony has been censoring Japanese games hard since at least 2003. Visual novels have never recovered. Best earliest example I can think of was the "Snow" visual novel (2003). It was a complete game with all its cgs and ready to release. Then for some inexplicable reason on release they removed the main heroine's romantic route and H CGs but kept everyone else's. And then the game released on Sony systems a while later. HMMMM.... Its almost as if Sony had a problem with her young design and had them scrap it last minute. The other more recent company doing censorship is of course Steam. An example this month was "The Hungy Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty" where the devs had to delay their release due to unexpected steam censorship and openly stated this on their steam page. It wasn't even an H game.
@darken241722 күн бұрын
Didn't sony dissolve the SONY Japan branch? Pretty much that statement is very false
@silentjazzlight239822 күн бұрын
Funny that Sony now forces PC games to be linked to PSN when it’s not available in JAPAN
@themissingpeace795610 күн бұрын
What about refunds? Are people demanding refunds for Stelar blade?
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PSS head is so full of it. If you really loved Japanese games you wouldn't be censoring ANYTHING and butchering the localization
Didn't Sony shut down their Japanese dev studio?
Not only that, but they chased many of the indie Japanese developers to Nintendo.
Or shutting down Japan Studio aka the folks who made Ape escape series and Shadow of the colossus just to name a few.
Sony is owned almost 10% by Blackrock. You can move Sony to the Moon, it will still be like this. It doesn't matter where the headquarters are
California, but in space?
Clearly we are going to have to deal with Black Rock, Vanguard and the banks. They seem to be the DEI and ESG enforcers.
The HQ is in Japan, SCIE is in California.
So YTministryoftruth didn't like my comment of what must be done. Too bad. Too much power in too few hands.
Then why not disconnect yourself from Blackrock or just have Blackrock get hacktively bankrupt and then your free!
Japenese people already knows Sony is no more a japanese company
Like most big japanese compnaies too.
Sony go bankrupt if not for being kept afloat by Japaneses Tax Money given to them by the Japanese Government.
Are you forgetting that Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment are not the same, but one is a branch of the other? Playstation went to California, not Sony HQ.
@@blumiu2426 What about their film studio? The same one that made Wahmen Ghostbusters and Madame Web
@@mr.awesome6011 I believe that too has a Western branch, it would have to if a studio is in America. I'm not sure how old you are if you're puzzled why Sony has been producing Western films.
Japan has already disowned Sony tho
I remember that article
I remember hearing that.
This is true
Damn, really?
Oh so what we have today is American Sony and not Japans???
Sony is the perfect mix of Japanese bureaucracy and American wokeism. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
A truly toxic concoction.
@@ShadiC636 Poisonous to the extreme.
Worst of both worlds
Yeah, a Japanese company. And I have a Buff gigachad body
Why are you hiding bodies?
Abby noooooooooo
If Sony still loves Japan, then why did they reverse the circle and x buttons on their Japanese customers?
Yech, that was in my muscle memory since PSX and the best part? You can select which style of O&X you like in PS4 but not in 5??? This is my deal breaker and StallerBlade situataion isnt help me want to get Ps5 much too.
That was under the last CEO, so we’ll have to see if the knew one continues in this direction
If they loved Japan bring back Senran Kagura you unfairly banned it
They did what???
@@canaldecasta everywhere else, when we would press x to do most everything in a game, for Japan, they always used o. I guess Sony Japan switched em on them to force them to be like the rest of the world.
Power. The only thing they understand, POWER. There is no morals, no ethics, no respect, no understanding, just Power.
As is to be expected from people with an unhealthy attachment style. Seriously, they’re like toddlers.
The Will To Power by Nietzche perfectly explains the reasons why Leftists do the things they fo.
The Will To Power by Nietzche perfectly explains the reasons why Leftists do the things they do.
As expected of people with an unhealthy attachment style.
"Strength without Love is meaningless!" -Space Channel 5 Part 2
Censorship is all about power and by showing them we are weak they have more fun bullying us.
"Very much Japanese" LOL, LMAO even.
ROFL, ROFLMAO even
With a dash of XD
reminds me of the "very bri'ish youth"
UWU LUL OMGEALUL
Yeah, Sony may say to themselves there still a “Japanese Company”, but not even the JAPANESE likes them anymore. They have become a hollow joke of themselves. The Stellar Blade Censorship is just their latest fiasco….
I remember that headline and how nobody bought it. Japanese companies don’t have the reassure people that they’re “still” Japanese. Nor do they move their HQ out of Japan…
Yes. A Japanese company whose headquarters is in Californyanya and worships THE MESSAGE
The Playstation 3 was Sony's last Japanese console and last significant tie to it's home country.
Yep. Ps3 had alot of good jrpgs
Ps4 had some good stuff too like Nioh, kiseki, omega quintet (underrated, it is not a garbage CH moeblob game, the battle mechanics are effing awsome like valkyrie profile 2 once you get a full party), etc. However halfway thru its lifespan japanese game devs woke up and started making good ports to pc. So at this point getting a ps4 is silly, but there was a time it had many faithful japanese games the pc did not have.
Most of the "Japanese" or "asian" dev studios have either had their local non-american studios closed or their american branch is completely americanized and not a single "true" employee remains. The sad fact is modern america is a cultural symbiote that takes something and slowly corrupts it and degrades it until its "americanized". This has been a fact since the early 2010's.
The early 80s was the start.
@@dwainsimmons3447 not entirely. It wasn't until the book "Shogun" was released to the public that sushi became popular in the US.
@@sixmillionisimpossible Provide proof of that please.
It's always been the case. Japan and American devs have been oil and water since the start. They were antagonistic toward one another in the 2000s.
It started with American christians and it's now American atheists. The problem is American culture.
A "Japanese Company"... which has Californian values. Because it is headquartered in California.
You mean Jewish values
@@windrider970 Specific people kinds of rich people, who happen to be Jewish. That is how I see it, and I have a habit which is being adjusted to not happen. Over-generalizing
@@thecompareablezombie Hmm, their comment got removed, they must have hit the nail on the head, afterall, pattern recognition is a thing.
Sony is culturally a Californian company, my Japanese friends point out how much they invest and focus on the internationally-appealing games as opposed to domestic IPs? 🤔
Why is Cali okay with nudity in western games then? Why is it only Asian games? Are they trying to save us from "orientalism" or some shit? (Not angry at you, just confused at the circumstances)
@@The_Mongoose Apologies in advance for my long explanation! 🙏 I think there's such a thing as _positive sexuality_ and _negative sexuality,_ as you say, we do see explicitly sexual content in Western games (I can only think of Last Of Us 2 atm, and I haven't played BG:III yet), but I think it really sits with who gets to decide what is considered positive or negative? My feeling is that there are a couple reasons why in particular TLoU2 wasn't censored; 1) Because it's a big flagship game, it's Sony's chance to legitimise games as a form of media that can do whatever tv and film can, thus advertising to more potential investors. 2) In the case of TLoU2, you need only look at Abigail's appearance, she's not what most would consider traditionally attractive, and we all see the body positivity movement, the Dove gamer-girls advert, female characters made uglier (The Horizon Zero Dawn devs actually admitted that was the case for their game in an interview). And so, I think there are groups backed by ESG/DEI that have the agenda of normalising and putting non-traditionally attractive women at the forefront, even though as humans we all prefer things that are more aesthetically pleasing than not. - We do also see this same group of people who share the same politics in different industries too, such as translations for animé. They often see mistranslating and changing the original context as justifiable, that often times Japanese (and now Korean) culture is inherently problematic/chauvinistic /politically incorrect, and they deem it unsuitable for western audiences so they take a self-righteous stance thinking they're doing the world a favour, and that censoring and changing this 'wrong' content is perfectly ok to do, the original creator's intentions be damned as the translator's cause is more morally just (and in this case, it's not a matter of interpretation either, I'm a native Japanese speaker and I notice this mistranslation occasionally when I see the subtitles.) This is just my opinion though developed from my understanding of the current entertainment industry and internet politics! 😂
@@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs While reading, Positive and negative Sexuality is fitting. Ever heard of Safe horny/safe Edgy? the first point I agree with, it is sad some things are being accepted in a Cherry picking sort of way. Second point works too, I am not sure to buy the first one knowing the Forbidden West has ruined the main woman of the game. While Abi's appearance is annoying considering people say its realistic. Did play the first Last of Us as a rental it was okay. Said people are one side of politics. For the time being no one is talking about Critical thinking when understanding media. I am bringing up Media Literacy, it won't be for too long. Ever heard Mangakamen? He talked about it and has given advice, check out his media Literacy is dead video. He made good points, I am not mentioning the meat and potatoes of the video. In order to not cheat you out of the information you get from it. Indeed there is mistranslations and changes of the text, which is annoying plain and simple. Sadly there parts of America which view Asian Countries as evil among other descriptions. Said people don't have a religion there is no higher power only the state. What is being typed needs work on my end. I can't say why bringing up the religious or political part, although will mention this: People with Strong views are not easy to change their mind. Side note and question, have you checked out Uzaki-chan wants to hang out? I wish you a wonderful day and or any other time, when the comment is responded to.
@@thecompareablezombie I wish everyone was as cordial as you in the KZhead comments section and that one day we can all just enjoy stuff like we used to like 9 years ago 😂 Mangakamen is a KZhead channel? Will check out their videos thank you! 🙂🙏 -And no I've not seen the Uzaki-chan animé or read the manga yet! She's the girl with the humongous booba right? 😂 I'm currently watching Dungeon Meshi! If you still have a free Sunday where you are I highly recommend! 😁👍 Take care wherever you are too! 🙂🙏
@@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs Understandable, I do what is possible to be polite. There have been times when I have been stupid. More people do need to enjoy their content at times, while being able to view it on a deeper level when its applicable. You are welcome, he makes good points Mr Kamen/MagnaKamen. Uzaki-chan is a college girl who is one year younger than her Senpai, she is free spirited and had a view about Chocolate chip Ice cream, each manga chapter is not too long until you get to the opinion, and it is in season 1 set of chapters. I am watching Dungeon Meshi too, it is an enjoyable high or medium fantasy. Shows how people would enjoy their food when in a pinch. One of the episodes had a partial cursed, but it was good to not have been a full on plant humanoid woman. I will make sure to take care, best regards.
Actions speak louder than words, Soyny California.
Sony forced Senra kuraga franchise devs to quit with their censorships -
Playstation is a Californian company.
Yeah Sony so Japanese they close their own Japan studio, their only first party Japanese Dev to some capacity.
They did that under Jim Ryan. The CEO now is a Japanese man so we’ll see if any changes are made
@@reinsmano same thing still happen look at stellar blade
@@reinsmanothere's no change at all, look at what happened.
"Very much Japanese" proceed to close the japanese studio lol
Remember they announced Stellar Blade had "gone GOLD" a couple weeks before? Going gold means ALL stakeholders (including publisher and platform owner) agreed that particular version of the game is FINAL, and physical copies can start to be made.
''Very much Japanese'' Right and i'm straight
And not a furry
@@blueshellincident Ever seen a straight furry? It's a rhetorical question.
Sony is already Sonifornia the moment their HQ moved to California. Gonna love californian man jaw right?
It's simple. Sony gave Shift-up a list of changes based on pre-release review complaints, which includes removing HARD-R and toning down the sexy. This is not an unusual practice. Problem is they listened to the wrong reviewers.
Correct.
It's unfortunate that the ones they listened to are the minorities who won't even buy and their games.
When you replace a word that only Americans can find "offensive," even though it's not what they thought it was, they go out of their way to censor it and force a studio to replace it. They don't love Japanese games; they have been censoring them nonstop, and the trash localizations that they make don't help their case either. Also, hiring a Canadian studio to sanitize every single one of your games shows how much of a liar that head of PlayStation Studios is. Lying is something people no longer tolerate. You can't gaslight gamers anymore.
I laughed when they said sony is still Japanese 💀💀
One thing is that it seems like Sony is accepting refund requests for Stellar Blade if you claim it is because of those changes (that Sony probably pressured Shift Up into making). It feels like active sabotage and some sort of vengeance because Stellar Blade's success exposes the woke grift for what it is.
There is a chance that they know if anyone brings a class action discovery would show that SONY forced the changes so easier to issue refunds then get a lawsuit that would expose the activist shit.
It will just make the games that we don't like or wanr fail harder.
Pretty much, the bad decision was made way back then, when they accepted Sony funding, turning what would have been a multi platform game (if i'm not mistaken, PS4/5, XBox and PC) into a PS5 exclusive.
Its is not enough that corruption is recognized. Its must be opposed. it is not enough that ignorance is acknowledged. It must be defied. Win or Loose what matters is making a stand for the vurtues we wish to bequeath to the human race. Otherwise you will hold a worthless prize with humanity lead into moral darkness.
#freestellarblade #cancelPSN
#freestellarblade
#cancelPSN
Last time when Sony belonged to the Japanese, the multiplayer was still free, which is since ps3. Now you have to pay 60 £ for ps plus in order to play online
Sony hasn't been a Japanese company ever since they moved their HQ to California.
Their American branch is in California I think...their Japanese branch kinda operates differently (for one thing they censored the TLOU2 sex scene).
@@Miyakolover Which was an understandable choice. Now to the side: Censoring either violent or sexual themes is dumb. The sex scene doesn't happen in anime themed RPGs. Am partially sure Modern day Puritans exist in various positions of power.
@@thecompareablezombie They do, but I think the Japanese Sony branch might have censored TLOU2 in retaliation to the wokes at California constantly censoring Japanese games.
DUDE SONY got taken over by CALIFORNIANS years ago. The movies got taken over in the later 90s early 2000s, and the games HQ got moved to cali like 10 years ago and the japanese have almost no real input into what the USA branch is doing.
Replace the word "censorship" with "uselessness". So when I censor alcohol depiction in my nation what I'm saying is "I'm useless on the subject of alcohol", yes even in Saudi Arabia. Also if I try to mind meld with the Sony Execs here's what I'd rationalize about Stellar Blade. "I took a petty dickhead stance against the fandom because these are my ESG principals. Therefore it's ok I got no real work done so you Mr.Fink can pay me my next bonus with full confidence" They can sit on their ass for a month doing nothing else, and they'd still consider it a job well done, it's their wed dream.
IMO, Sony quit being Japanese when they outsourced to California. The worst mistake they could have ever made.
"Who are you going to believe? Me or your own lying eyes?!" - S0ny's current head of PSS Who does he thinks he's fooling? I mean aside from whoever is still foolish enough to still be giving money to 50ny
IF the publisher does not toe the line, does not do what the journalists want, they will start reporting on it, things like bad work environments, harassment etc. IF the publisher does end up toeing the line, does what the journalists want, they will defend ALL of their behavior, even ignore the so-called bad behavior they reported on prior. - Just look at EA, journalists hated it. Suddenly they stopped reporting on it (I wonder why) and when Dead Space 3 came out the journalists defended the microtransactions and called gamers that used an exploit in the game thieves. - What about World of Tanks. The developer targeted a KZhead channel, had it closed down for a while. Journalists reported on it claiming the KZheadr used bad words. In reality the KZheadr talked about the new Tank, Ammo and scummy practices. I remember posting on Kotaku: _"Yeah, that's nice and all, but what about that Golden Tank and Ammo stuff."_ because *not a single game journalist brought it up.*
Beign a game journalist now means all your money comes from companies paying you to report only what they want, mainstream media is basically wortless now. We lost true journalism a long time ago.
Remember when they said that the game "wouldn't be censored" in Japan? This is how I think it went: Japan made some requests for toning the game down in some areas in order not to give it a Cero Z and then someone at Sony convinced, or ordered Shift Up to apply those changes worldwide, with the excuse that they are pretty minor. Economic considerations also come to mind. Remember how they said that the Japanese audio wouldn't be on the disc? This is probably because they were planning a separate version for Japan, maybe fearing that the Japanese one would have to be censored even more. But having to maintain a single version of the game worldwide is a money saver.
Censorship is about control and power! Control and power over both the studios and the consumers.
Sony and Patreon are a joke. And April Fool's is only once a year. Even on that day, no one laughs at these companies in ridicule.
"We make games for everyone" "Then have censorship toggles so people can choose" "No"
How about Playstation returns their HQ back to Japan?
They are just as Japanese as the Kamikoto knife were. In the name they are Japanese, but everything else is not. Steam is more Japanese friendly than Sony which is ironic.
Eh, there isn't that much of a difference between Steamingpile and Soyny.
@@HenshinFanatic That is true
"Loves Japanese games" yeah and I'm Queen of England 🤣
You hit the nail on the head. The woke crowd was upset by this game, by the idea of it not having any censorship, and the woke games journalists worked to get something, ANYTHING to stick. Just to antagonize the player base.
People knew they were no longer a Japanese company when they moved the HQ for one of there branches to California.
Nah. For me it just makes my view on Sony worst. It's already rock bottom anyway. For now, I still support Shift Up. I'll just spend on Nikke instead of buying a PS5 for Stellar Blade. Who knows how Shift Up will be in the future as they went public. Maybe another Blizzard etc. I'll enjoy it while I can.
Just know shift up has censored Nikki before. But it got backlash and undone, apparently
it actually amazes me they bother. do they actually think people listen to what they SAY rather than what they DO?
They love Japanese games, but shut down every first party Japanese dev studio except Team Asobi. 🤷♂️
No global operating company is a *[insert nationality here]* company. That ship has sailed like 20 years ago. For every country/nationality.
Don’t forget censorship from the activists and journalists, less you risk them tanking your game sales, getting one of the other censors to drop you anyway, or targeting your home life, like getting you fired, expelled, evicted, reputation assassination, etc (maybe even vandalism or physical assault).
'All I can think of is that they were trying to antagonize their customer base' YES. Also, back during the Sony/M$ fued over CoD, I heard it mentioned that in the documents/emails that were leaked from that, that M$ was trying to seed Nintendo's board. It's a common strategy. Kinda wish more people shined light on that aspect when it happened.
There is a lot of that still blame shift up for the censoring and not sony which is crazy
Sony clearly got Stellar Blade censored out of spite. They were also were hoping to sabotage Shift Up.
It's over for sony.
The reason they wanted to censor Stellar Blade was to make it unattractive to those that like sexy women, so the sales will lag and the game/developer gets dropped. Essentially, theyre banking on all the headlines saying CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED to scare off Stellar Blade's core audience so that the developer is forced to cater to the woke, basically. At least, that's my theory. Journalists want the game to fail, so theyre using our own psychology against us.
Censorship is also akin to sabotage. Sony may be using censorship has an unfair business practice to manipulate the gaming market. Since they do show a bias against certain games from where they are made. Someone more versed in business law and practice would be better suited to look into it.
Thank you for bringing this up, only part you kinda got wrong is that it wasn't a day 1 patch. The disc had version 1.00, early reveiwers got 1.01 and then the patch on release was ver 1.02. The costume was censored in ver 1.01. Either way we don't know why the censorship happened when the game already went gold, normally Sony give big sellers a pass on content. I think it probably has to do with global release, maybe some region demanded changes? They said it would be uncensored in Japan, it removed gore from Eve's body in a acene. Who knows what other entities got involved. They censored NIKKE for certain markets, could be the same in this case.
Sony is Japanese by history, but no longer Japanese by heart and soul.
There are multiple layers of censorship and all the censors answer to the same masters. The more money is involved the less consideration is given to the experience of those who despise censorship but in the end it is the choice of the dev studio. @5:35 In a close to ideal situation for the banks, probably but that is not really the case anymore.
We gamers in Australia have been screwed over since the 90s. We never had an R18+ rating until 2013 when we finally got one, but then the classification board found other reasons to censor games and that was when ESG and DEI agendas took hold.
I think they should have sent censored version to the journos.
And that’s why double A are blooming, cause they don’t take too much resources
Who owns the governments and the banks?
The payment processors are the weak link. If you can get a class action against them then the money can flow to non-infested creators. They have a limited monopoly are VERY exposed to discrimination lawsuits.
A japanese company censoring a korean game. :D Everyone knows what is happening but few have the balls to tell how it is. :)))
yup ,very sad
The problem is that plenty of the calls are coming from inside the house now. If you have employees in your company who want to push The Message (tm) through your games, they'll gladly team up with any of the entities you mentioned to sabotage your project. I think what the Stellar Blade censorship is meant to communicate to players is that, even if a team manages to work within the current system to get a game like that out the door, they'll still do everything they can to take it away from you even after release.
I have a feeling if Sony just shuts down its California office which operates as a quasi-political activist organization, I think all this stuff would go away.
Its kinda sad when you think about it that beloved Rockstar are ashemd of their masterclass game Manhunt. How low can you get? And everyone is losing their mind over GTA6? Why? Its going to be woke garbage not the same spirit as used to be like older titles.
We're up to verse 4 of the Narcissist's Prayer: That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. (STELLAR BLADE FANS, YOU ARE HERE) And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
Yup which is annoying and punch-worthy the individual person of power's bank account.
Sony probably didn't want to show weakness. To don't risk that other game companies wouldn't easily agree to be censored like in the past because Stellar Blade avoided it.
I think it's time we make our own shit. The tech has come to a point people can start making there own shit.
There is a work around for steam, not sure if will be easily implementable for more complex games but many of the lewd games offer external patch downloads to return the steam version to the intended release version. Yes its more work for the user but this will allow devs to get steam money while still giving users what they want.
You can take sony out of California, but you can‘t take California out of blackrock, and you can‘t take sony from blackrock. 😞
I learnt a new term today. It's 'Sonifornia'. If it doesn't nia-nia you, it nia-nias me.
i love the point you made in the first part of the video, as for sony's part, dude, they do this to A LOT of eastern games, like DMC5 on playstation had censored butts.
Sony started being this bad when Xbox was pushed out of market. When Xbox and Sony had competetive market back in the day, sony was trying everything to pull customers to them. After they started buying rights to certain IPs, they stopped caring because they are monopoly on consoles now. Same would be with Steam if Epic didnt roll around.
It really is the platforms that is the current gatekeeper of games, and they are gatekept by the banks. But they still do not have complete control, and some things will get through the filters.
Yeah its called pc gaming lol
PSP and PS Vita handhelds were the last of SONY being a Japanese focused publisher. SONY stopped being a Japanese publisher when they allowed SONY of America control the PlayStation brand in 2017.
For money, only a percentage will refund over this and sony appears to be aware of this and is refunding those who ask.
Payment can be solved with cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin lightning, maybe Dash. Also BTCPay server. Governments often block only things which are for minors.
I am going to release my game on torrents anonymously and tell the players to share the game with their friends privately. No one is going to stop me
When they stop putting the califor- nya nyas in control and actually watch what there western studio does with there company than things might get better until then. Nope!
Just recently I've learned that you can no longer have red cross on your medkits. Red Cross (the organization) no longer allows to have red crosses (the image) unless you are approved by them. Apparently Doom (the 90-s game) now was changed to have pills on medkits instead of red crosses.
Bro...Shift up must have known this was coming down from Sony.
Sony is old Nintendo, and Nintendo is old Sony
Funny and sad at different angles you look at it.
There's no way Stellar Blade developers didn't see it coming. It's more likely they knew the game was going to be censored anyway, but still kept advertising it like it wasn't going to suffer any interference from SONY.
Just ask Japanese devs how they fared getting their games approved in the past decade.
People should refund the game over it. The lewdness of the game was one of the main selling points.
Sony masters bowing down to the system, doing this was more of a ritual than anything else, it is not what I believe, is what they believe and their masters ;-)
Always thought mature was adult only, smh.
Ah ok
You know what, I just realized that since Shift Up is a Korean company, it is highly likely that Sony screwed them over because of the animosity/racism that still exists between Koreans and Japanese. I don't think Sony was out to upset the players or fans of the company specifically, but it was the company itself that they wanted to harm. Which is why the game had all the uncensored content all the way up to a week before the game came out, and suddenly right before they send out the review copies they had to censor the game, which is why the games journalists got version 1.0.0.1 copies which had the censorship, and people who pre-ordered the physical disk got the 1.0.0.0 copy which was uncensored.
Sony loves censorship tho? They did it to dmc5 and dead or alive. Research that. Tldr: a blinding light over exposed butts and bewwbs for lady and Trish for a few scenes, and no bikinis. But backlash made them remove it
More like the racism between California and East Asia.
Make Sony Asian-exclusive Again
Sony has been censoring Japanese games hard since at least 2003. Visual novels have never recovered. Best earliest example I can think of was the "Snow" visual novel (2003). It was a complete game with all its cgs and ready to release. Then for some inexplicable reason on release they removed the main heroine's romantic route and H CGs but kept everyone else's. And then the game released on Sony systems a while later. HMMMM.... Its almost as if Sony had a problem with her young design and had them scrap it last minute. The other more recent company doing censorship is of course Steam. An example this month was "The Hungy Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty" where the devs had to delay their release due to unexpected steam censorship and openly stated this on their steam page. It wasn't even an H game.
Didn't sony dissolve the SONY Japan branch? Pretty much that statement is very false
Funny that Sony now forces PC games to be linked to PSN when it’s not available in JAPAN
What about refunds? Are people demanding refunds for Stelar blade?