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Nintendo like closed - the "Seal of Quality" approval is what they perceive as dragging gaming back out of the Atari-induced crash of '84. Of course it's been 3

Nintendo like closed - the "Seal of Quality" approval is what they perceive as dragging gaming back out of the Atari-induced crash of '84. Of course it's been 30 years since then, but they're still very hot on control - for example they won't have The Binding of Isaac even though it'd probably sell pretty well because it's "blasphemous". I don't see it happening, ever, without a major culture shift there.

asb 12y ago
But the Wii had Manhunt 2 and Madworld and the DS had GTA: China Town Wars? Odd
- dagw 12y ago
  Was there anything blasphemous about any of those games? I seem to recall as them all is fairly mundane, if a bit violent, video games
  - lostgame 12y ago
    Go re-read some reviews of Manhunt 2. Seriously, that game was messed up. I read somewhere that it caused turmoil at Rockstar.
- chipsy 12y ago
  That's a separate issue (from platform control). Nintendo got off of the censorship train in the mid-1990's and haven't looked back, although their own work remains uniformly all-ages friendly with little exception. Edit: But, I should add that they are going to dictate more terms if they are acting as the publisher, which may be the case with eShop games.
  - emodendroket 12y ago
    They list publishers, so I don't think they do.
jsheard 12y ago
Nintendo wouldn't allow Isaac on their systems, but two years later the developers of the remake are teasing 3DS and Wii U versions. https://twitter.com/tyronerodriguez/status/531907545267703808 https://twitter.com/tyronerodriguez/status/53190754526770380... Either Nintendo have lowered their standards or the increased popularity of the game makes the potential backlash a worthwhile risk.
- AlyssaRowan 12y ago
  Well, at least that's encouraging. :) Thanks.
- ANTSANTS 12y ago
  Nintendo allows games like Senran Kagura to be published on the 3DS, even outside of Japan, so while I'd be happy to be proven wrong, I really doubt that they had any kind of moral dilemma about The Binding of Isaac. I think you guys are forgetting that Isaac was a Flash game. Porting it to any mobile platform would have required a C or C++ rewrite... which, hey, what do you know, was just released as The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth...
  - jsheard 12y ago
    The specific reason they gave was "questionable religious content", and none of the religious themes were toned down in the remake. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/02/29/binding-of-isaac-blocked-from-3ds-due-to-quot-questionable-religious-content-quot.aspx http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/02/29/bindin...
    - ANTSANTS 12y ago
      Oops, my mistake.

asb 12y ago

But the Wii had Manhunt 2 and Madworld and the DS had GTA: China Town Wars? Odd

dagw 12y ago
Was there anything blasphemous about any of those games? I seem to recall as them all is fairly mundane, if a bit violent, video games
- lostgame 12y ago
  Go re-read some reviews of Manhunt 2. Seriously, that game was messed up. I read somewhere that it caused turmoil at Rockstar.
chipsy 12y ago
That's a separate issue (from platform control). Nintendo got off of the censorship train in the mid-1990's and haven't looked back, although their own work remains uniformly all-ages friendly with little exception. Edit: But, I should add that they are going to dictate more terms if they are acting as the publisher, which may be the case with eShop games.
- emodendroket 12y ago
  They list publishers, so I don't think they do.

jsheard 12y ago

Nintendo wouldn't allow Isaac on their systems, but two years later the developers of the remake are teasing 3DS and Wii U versions. https://twitter.com/tyronerodriguez/status/531907545267703808 https://twitter.com/tyronerodriguez/status/53190754526770380... Either Nintendo have lowered their standards or the increased popularity of the game makes the potential backlash a worthwhile risk.

AlyssaRowan 12y ago
Well, at least that's encouraging. :) Thanks.
ANTSANTS 12y ago
Nintendo allows games like Senran Kagura to be published on the 3DS, even outside of Japan, so while I'd be happy to be proven wrong, I really doubt that they had any kind of moral dilemma about The Binding of Isaac. I think you guys are forgetting that Isaac was a Flash game. Porting it to any mobile platform would have required a C or C++ rewrite... which, hey, what do you know, was just released as The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth...
- jsheard 12y ago
  The specific reason they gave was "questionable religious content", and none of the religious themes were toned down in the remake. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/02/29/binding-of-isaac-blocked-from-3ds-due-to-quot-questionable-religious-content-quot.aspx http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/02/29/bindin...
  - ANTSANTS 12y ago
    Oops, my mistake.