About the Catherine Decision...

[manythings]

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Change to them looking in on the west. They know if they release the likes of Catherine on our end of the world it'll immediately become the medias new RapeLay because all the people who will hear that story are the people who will never bother learning about it. They want to avoid the shitstorm it will undoubtedly cause. They'd already be accusing Atlus for attempting to turn kids gay if any of them every heard about Persona 4.

Yeah but think about something,I keep hearing that none of those people heard of Heavy Rain,which is a French game,maybe games made in other countries can go under the carpet. I mean if RapeLay wasn't mentioned whatsoever in that supreme court case,maybe Catherine can slip under the radar

Looks like I was wrong. Hopefully they might consider a PC Port at some point.

 

[Mister Six]

Actually according to Sankaku (NSFW so heads up)it is being brought over, which is the only explanation for the 360 release, http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/03/01/catherine-coming-to-us-after-all/

 

[RollForInitiative]

They've officially announced releases for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in North America. Thank you, Atlus. I knew I could count on you. ^_^

 

[Korne]

It've sold poorly and would have to be very edited and censored to avoid an AO rating - a death sentence to a video game. The costs of doing all that, marketing it and translating the text and voice is obviously (according to their finance department) greater than their potential profit.

No surprise here.

It would still sell as well as their other games have, and it is already a huge success in Japan (it beat out MvC3 in the first week). I doubt it will get an AO rating. It has a lot to do with Sex and Violence, but it is done in a classful way.

Classy way?

Our ideas of class are obviously very different.

ok, the marketing is totally rediculous (if not unique to the medium), but the game is tackling issues on commitment and infidelity.