Dead Or Alive 3DS = Child Porn?
- Scribbled on May 30th, 2011 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Fighting, Industry News, Legal Brief, Nintendo DS
It seems that the 3DS game Dead or Alive: Dimensions is being yanked from some European countries due to the fears it may feature child pornography.
Three of the game’s characters – Ayane, Koroke, and Kasumi – are described by in-game lore as being under 18 years of age, making them ‘children’ in the eyes of Swedish law. This prevents them from being depicted in “a pornographic situation.”
While the fighting game itself is far from pornographic, the game’s distributor in the region – Bergsala – responded to concerns that an in-game photography mode, which allows players to look up characters’ dresses in certain poses, could count as ‘pornographic’ enough for police to take an interest by pulling the title the shelves.
The game will now no longer be available in Sweden, Denmark, or Norway – despite no formal investigation having yet been made.
It would seem the easy answer would be to canonically say they’re over 21 – frankly, they look very mature for their age.
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