Sazime, everywhere Sazime. Except for PSN and XBLA, where I am SammyPS. I used to podcast, "Johnny Gigawatt and the Tigermen from Mars" and "Invasion of the Pudcasters" for movies. Now, I do neither, but I have the memories.
@luka I get that, and I get the frustration, but regarding Nintendo: their games have Chinese specific releases that come out on a special, region specific Nvidia Shield. Nintendo has been region locking titles forever, and it made transitioning to China very simple for them when the console ban was lifted in 2015.
I don't agree with the score, but I understand.
@luka Yeah, having them move an office to the porn capitol of the world influences censorship? I don't buy it.
Game consoles being able to be sold in the largest game market in the world and the added cost of keeping up with multiple RCs? Much more likely.
Money is the simplest answer to the changes, and the Chinese market is larger than the US market. We're ~25%, they're right up at 50% of the worldwide market.
When you fight censorship in China, you fight the Chinese government, not a ratings board. Sony is making a business decision, as did Valve, as did Ubi. Is it a bad one? Yes. Will they change the policy? Maybe, Valve and Ubi did. But right now Sony is riding high on amazing revenues and first party games raking in cash. They don't need a third party creating a political problem with potentially 50% of their sales revenue.
@luka Are you sure? Their consoles aren't region locked, running multiple stores in a global marketplace is expensive and China has had historic bans on console gaming until recently. What other country could it be about?
Wait, is this in regards to the Sony thing? Or the Ubi thing? Or the Steam thing? You know, the directions global marketplaces are going to make themselves more available in a huge, untapped market: China?
@dmcmaster I forgot about Bayo, but BotW was an E3 announcement with mainstream coverage of gameplay later in the year, right?
Not that it matters, the point of Nintendo doing things outside directs is taken. :)
There's a lot of Nintendo talk here, but have they announced anything outside of their directs in the last few years?
@sabotagethetruth This sums me up perfectly.
I kinda wish I spent more time in there this weekend, but RDR2 had me hooked in. Feel free to add me, I'm hoping to spend more time in game during the week. Same there as I am here, Sazime.