Remember the 18+ blockade in the nintendo eshops? good news!

[Langin]

Today I was checking the nintendo eshop and came across this message:

Dear costumer,

Nintendo has removed the block on 18 plus content in the eshop, every adult can now buy these games at any time of the day from ths eShop.

A detailed research about parental controls for Nintendo systems which has been hold by a German institute for Entertainment software USK has concluded that the parental controls Nintendo offers is very good.

I am too lazy to translate the rest for you. they just warn parents to turn on parental controls for childeren.

Nice I've been waiting for this!

Source: Nintendo eShop in my 3DS(dutch eshop)

 

[Qtis]

Ninja'd by a few seconds. Still this is formatted better

 

[Langin]

Mine wins! because of the format

 

[emigre]

A happy resolution to a problem which should have never existed in the first place.​

 

[Gahars]

Obligatory Lonely Island gif.

 

[The Catboy]

A happy resolution to a problem which should have never existed in the first place.

Going to agree with him. It was a stupid thing to do and shouldn't have been done in the first place.
Glad they removed it.

 

[Arras]

A happy resolution to a problem which should have never existed in the first place.​

Apparently they had to go through some lengthy German law process before this was approved though, so it probably couldn't really have been done faster. Anyway, it's good to see the stupid restriction gone (and the Germans making some sense).

 

[emigre]

Apparently they had to go through some lengthy German law process before this was approved though, so it probably couldn't really have been done faster. Anyway, it's good to see the stupid restriction gone (and the Germans making some sense).

There's something called forward planning. When Ninty were developing the eshop, someone at Ninty should have put some work into whether there were potential problems regarding distribution. And than get the ball rolling before release. Overall it's farcical such an arbitrary limitation was placed upon users.

 

[WiiUBricker]

Now all that's left is to remove the region lock (and decrease prices of downloadable retail games).

 

[Arras]

There's something called forward planning. When Ninty were developing the eshop, someone at Ninty should have put some work into whether there were potential problems regarding distribution. And than get the ball rolling before release. Overall it's farcical such an arbitrary limitation was placed upon users.

This was only approved because the parental controls were good enough to act as a substitute according to the message. If they wanted to test this beforehand, the organization that does these tests would have had to have early access to WiiUs and have them online to test that part. Basically, the WiiU should be completely finished, only to wait 3 months or whatever with releasing it for these guys to give them a thumbs up. IMO the Germans should just remove this law altogether.

 

[emigre]

This was only approved because the parental controls were good enough to act as a substitute according to the message. If they wanted to test this beforehand, the organization that does these tests would have had to have early access to WiiUs and have them online to test that part. Basically, the WiiU should be completely finished, only to wait 3 months or whatever with releasing it for these guys to give them a thumbs up. IMO the Germans should just remove this law altogether.

It's really hard to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt here. It's pretty apparent when it comes to the internet, Ninty are pretty incompetent. It really wouldn't surprise me if no one at NoE realised these German laws existed until it was too late. Even than it is relatively well known Germany are pretty "over protective," regarding adult material. Instead these arbitary limitations have taken down several months after release and reinforce the stigma that Ninty can't do digital distribution.

 

[Dann Woolf]

Now all that's left is to remove the region lock (and decrease prices of downloadable retail games).

Haha, let's not get crazy, Reggie, Iwata and Shiggy need to pay for their hookers and blow somehow.

 

[pasc]

Apparently they had to go through some lengthy German law process before this was approved though, so it probably couldn't really have been done faster. Anyway, it's good to see the stupid restriction gone (and the Germans making some sense).

German laws are quite complicated you know ?

 

[SnAQ]

Great solution to a problem that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

 

[Rizsparky]

At last, this was a long time coming...

 

[shakirmoledina]

Sales must be low. Keep it cheap and free of course maintaining maturity to their rightful audience.

 

[NightsOwl]

Now all that's left is to remove the region lock (and decrease prices of downloadable retail games).

Nintendo only sets the price of their games, AFAIK.

So go around asking every other developer to do that too.

And there's reason for region locking too, but I wont get into that.

 

[DiabloStorm]

Today I was checking the nintendo eshop and came across this message:



Nice I've been waiting for this!

Source: Nintendo eShop in my 3DS(dutch eshop)

The 3DS has 18+ games? That's news to me, where have the tits been hiding?

 

[Elrinth]

About time. They lost atleast one sale to me because of this.

 

[McHaggis]

Yeah I wanted to try the ZombiU demo for ages but kept forgetting to go on the eShop during the uncensored hours. It was really fucking annoying and should never have been that way.