Comment on Why does Australia tend to censor games A LOT despite a copy having a foreign classification rating?
brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 days ago
I don’t know if that situation evolved a bit since, but Nintendo of Europe has had a lot of stupid crap happen to the Europe e-shop because of Australia (it was still the case mid-Switch 1).
Historically (mostly because they used to have the PAL standard like Europe), Australia was considered the same region as Europe for Nintendo. Somehow this survived long after the need for the PAL/NTSC distinction, as some level of joint management of e-shop for EU and Australia. Problem is, Australia is very trigger-happy when it comes to change a game rating, and Nintendo too when it comes to remove a game until rerating is validated. It took something like 6 months in some cases.
Example, Jamestown, a classic pew-pew pixel-style bird’s eye shoot’m up, removed from both stores for that long, despite the fact Europe’s own rating PEGI maintained a 7+ rating for it. Still have no idea what could have triggered Australia’s change of rating.