>>279551 (OP)
OP, 2022's Hot Tentacle Shooters wasn't canceled. You can find that it was released on the Switch in Europe, America, and Japan.
https://gamuzumi.com/games.php?id=hottentaclesshooter
I think OP meant to write that it was censored, rather than canceled. The archived link OP posted (https://archive.ph/rAxny) leads to a statement by Gamuzumi about how Nintendo banned uncensored boobs.
Previously, niche ecchi publishers like Gamuzumi would use the European release and PEGI's allowance of bare boobs in those ecchi games to make the physical releases have fictional characters' boobs with uncensored nipples. The game wasn't canceled; it was censored (assuming this was indeed one of the games in Gamuzumi's catalog affected by Nintendo's restrictions/censorship).
>>290487
>Bunny Garden game did release in America (but not in Europe)
Interesting. Nintendo of Europe.
Attached to this post is a document from Pokémon's 2024 leaks called the Teraleak. The image was machine translated.
Source of image: https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/56801721/#q56801959
The anon also gives the location of a relevant document from the Teraleak as
> GFDocs\ポケモン監修用資料\その他共通資料\ネガティブチェック関連\GF様説明用 180724_contentreview_example.pdf
Please expand the image and read it. The document itself is about Pokémon Sun and Moon, so it's likely from around 2016. I believe the Teraleak's leaked files have metadata that should give the exact date of the document.
In the image of the leaked document, NOE refers to Nintendo of Europe, and TPCi refers to The Pokémon Company International. The character they're expressing concerns about is Pokémon Sun and Moon's Olivia. She is clearly an adult fictional character, both in terms of fictional character and fictional design. Other leaked documents from the Teraleak even explicitly confirm her as fictionally 34 years old.
In the image, NOE and TCPi worded their concern about
> laws in countries that prohibit expressions that evoke sexual images of minors under 18 years of age
This was referring to 90s/2000s anti-fiction laws made by countries (such as the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) that treat fictional minors, like many anime characters, as real-life, nonfictional minors. Therefore, any pornography or explicit sexual imagery of said fictional character is criminalized and treated by certain countries exactly like Child Sexual Abuse Material with real-life minors.
Even with these anti-fiction laws, Nintendo of Europe and The Pokémon Company International's concerns were needlessly restrictive about fictional content and uninformed about the anti-fiction laws they were concerned about. The fictional character Olivia is visibly an adult anime character (confirmed to be 34 years old in the Teraleak), and her design isn't pornographic. Therefore, countries' anti-fiction laws criminalizing the fictional sexualization (really fictional pornography) of fictional minors wouldn't be breached. Censoring Olivia wouldn't have meant compliance with countries' anti-fiction laws; it would've been Nintendo creating their own anti-fiction restrictions.
To justify their concern, NOE and TPCi ridiculously expressed concern that
> 3D models often appear younger than the actual age
Attached to this post is Olivia's 3D model. Clearly, this was all a ridiculous concern made by ridiculous people. In the end, Olivia's design is uncensored in the 3ds releases of Pokémon Sun and Moon. However, her anime appearances had her wearing a coat without explanation (image attached to this post).
NOE + TPCi concerns about legal compliance never even mattered because Olivia's design wasn't pornographic. Therefore, her design couldn't be illegal under certain countries' anti-fiction laws even if she did look like a fictional minor, which she didn't. In reality, the concern about her design was only Nintendo of Europe's and the Pokémon Company International's, not anyone else's.
NOE past concerns with fictional anime characters match up with Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and Fire Emblem Fates' censorship in all regions outside of Japan. Those games were censored around the same time that NOE and TPCi expressed their concerns for Pokémon Sun and Moon. Without a doubt, Nintendo, and especially Nintendo of Europe, has had their own anti-fiction restrictions that censor fictional content from 1st-party Nintendo-developed games.
Since 2022/2023, Nintendo of Europe (NOE) and Nintendo of America (NOA) have been censoring 3rd-party ecchi games on their Nintendo consoles. Their censorship and restrictions on fiction as a console platform holder are done by superseding age-ratings boards like PEGI and the ESRB. Both Death end re;Quest and Neptunia Re;Birth passed the age ratings process. Clearly games that are certified by the ESRB and PEGI don't have fictional content that's illegal in the regions that use the ESRB (notably applies to Canada) and PEGI (the age-ratings board for video games throughout Europe). However, Nintendo of America + Europe evidently have been censoring/restricting legal fictional content and banning legal fictional games with their own anti-fiction censorship policies in all Western regions.
Prior to 2022/2023, any anti-fiction restrictions by Nintendo on the Switch were only for 1st-party Nintendo games. At the time, 3rd-party games on the Nintendo Switch platform were allowed uncensored as long as they were age-rated by the regions' age-ratings board, like the ESRB. Of course, Nintendo forbade the ESRB's AO rating. If the AO rating wasn't also banned by physical stores too, it would have been the age rating applied to explicit porn video games like eroge and WEGs.
The following is Nintendo's pre-2022/2023 position for their Nintendo Switch platform as spoken by President Shuntaro Furukawa in a shareholders meeting. Notably, this was in response to Sony Interactive Entertainment/PlayStation's fiction censorship policies.
https://archive.ph/RkxJm
>Q11: Regarding restrictions on expression. Some other platforms have their own restrictions other than third-party organizations such as CERO. How about Nintendo?
<A11: Nintendo entrusts a third-party organization with the task of providing objective ratings for its own products and third-party software prior to its release. If the platform operator arbitrarily chooses to do so, it would seriously impede the diversity and fairness of game software. The parental control function also allows for restrictions to be put in place.
Why did Nintendo change its policy for 3rd parties?
Consider the people in Nintendo of Europe who wanted to restrict fictional content to treat Pokémon Sun and Moon's fictional adult character Olivia like a real-life, nonfictional minor. Consider company employees that support anti-fiction restrictions on fictional content. Consider the consultants, ethics departments, BS&P teams, localization divisions, and anti-fiction activists who all create anti-fiction restrictions and censor fiction.
Next, it's worth considering credit card companies' and payment gateways' own anti-fiction restrictions and fiction censorship. We all should know how much worse it progressed in 2024 and 2025.
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nier-creator-speaks-out-against-payment-processors-pressuring-japanese-adult-content-platforms/
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/visa-japans-ceo-says-disabling-card-payment-for-legal-adult-content-is-necessary-to-protect-the-brand/
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/credit-card-restrictions-are-spreading-even-to-japanese-platforms-for-womens-adult-content-including-audio-dramas-and-bl-doujinshi/
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/award-winning-japanese-adult-game-developer-directly-hit-by-credit-card-restrictions-as-visa-payment-gets-suspended-on-their-web-store/
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-archive-of-out-of-print-manga-crowdfunded-back-into-existence-following-visa-and-mastercard-suspensions/
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/steam-rules-updated-to-prohibit-content-that-violates-rules-set-forth-by-payment-processors-and-banks/
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nsfw-content-row-continues-as-valve-confirms-paypal-no-longer-supports-steam-purchases-in-some-regions
For an anti-fiction reason, whenever nonfictional content is attacked, companies restrict and censor fiction too. Everyone should stop scapegoating fiction and only go after real-life, nonfictional exploitation.
The people who want fiction censored and want fictional content restricted are anti-fiction activists. Censorship and restrictions on fiction are anti-fiction restrictions/censorship.
The current system where platform holders (including TV stations) and private companies (including payment gateways) are dictating restrictions against fiction needs to go. Under the current system, the opinions of companies, companies' consultants, and companies' activists end up mattering more than those of scientific experts and the public.
Companies must be required to be transparent about any of their fictional content restrictions and allow for democratic scrutiny by their country's public. Additionally, just like how age-ratings boards should optimally function, each company's 18+ rating (like CERO Z or PEGI 18 for video games)/eldest age categorization (like seinen for manga) must allow for completely uncensored/unrestricted fictional content.