Nintendo Responds To Dispatch Switch Censorship With Official Statement
Nintendo Life • • technology
Key Points:
- Nintendo's parental control system prevents under-18 accounts from purchasing, seeing, or playing M-rated digital games like Resident Evil 5 on the Switch, even if the game is bought on a parent’s account.
- Users have expressed frustration that the parental controls cannot be overridden to allow access to M-rated content, leading to complaints on platforms like Reddit.
- There is speculation that Nintendo's decision to censor or restrict certain games may stem from internal publishing choices, potentially made by a small group of producers.
- Some hope for a future patch to remove censorship or adjust restrictions, but skepticism remains about whether this will happen.
- The controversy has overshadowed the launch of well-received games on the Switch, with some players opting to
