Australia rates Pokémon Platinum: Games must be rated before they can be sold

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Australia rates Pokémon Platinum: Games must be rated before they can be sold

The Australian government's Classification Board gave Pokémon Platinum a content rating of PG on Friday. Although Nintendo of Australia has not announced a release date, games must receive a rating before they can be sold in Australia.

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Geez, a PG? What exactly is objectionable in Platinum to warrant THAT?

What's with you Aussies and your government game ratings?
 
Okay, now why exactly would Platinum get a PG rating in Australia? I know that ratings standards can vary wildly from country to country (some of Canadian film ratings have left me scratching my head) but this is really puzzling. I'd like to hear their reasoning for this.
 
Maybe it's the whole
Cyrus stuck in the Torn World
thing that they might think is too intense/disturbing for children.
But if that's the case I'd like to see what rating PMD2 got. Because the plots in that are a LOT more disturbing than Platinum's will ever be.

EDIT: Also this is why I'm thankful the US has an independent rating entity (though that could change if politicians get their way...)
 
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It is the online thing.
Young kids can't be exposed to that, according to Aus.
 
Nekusagi said:
Maybe it's the whole
Cyrus stuck in the Torn World
thing that they might think is too intense/disturbing for children.
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See, here I was thinking it was the whole Cyrus thing, end of sentence. Because he's a pretty disturbing character.


Online stuff? You know, I never thought I'd actually praise the American rating system, but at least they acknowledge that the game can't be held accountable for anything that happens online, since that's the actions of other players rather than the programmers.
 
My Pokemon Diamond has a PG rating.=/
So this isn't exactly new here for the 4th gen. I've never really understood why we even have the PG rating though.
 
blame the fuckers who rated PG and who invetned the Aussie Game Rating System
 
I don't even get why the ESRB isn't good enough for international use... it's not a branch of the US government, it's from the game industry itself.

Of course, the only reason we have this shit in the first place is because old farts who don't even play the things decide they need to control them. I'm looking at you, Lieberman. I know what you did with Night Trap.
 
Because most countries already legislated to use their own classification systems from movies before the ESRB even existed, and ESRB ratings don't exist for everything, since it's not all released in the US.

A global ratings system wouldn't really work either, since all countries have different values, cultures and ideas of morality, and what's G in one country could quite legitimately be M in another, in the right circumstances.
 
I'm guessing it's because of Giratina's whole appearance on Spear Pillar where he like does this thing that can make kids jump on their seats, he like rams head 1st into the screen, scares the young and jumpy kids, and yeah, there's Cyrus.
 
I'm almost certain its for gambling references. Anyway how is this news?
 
Archaic said:
A global ratings system wouldn't really work either, since all countries have different values, cultures and ideas of morality, and what's G in one country could quite legitimately be M in another, in the right circumstances.
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Case in point: Detective Conan (Case Closed here) is considered a kids' show in Japan and most of Asia (there were even happy meal toys of it!) and Viz gives it a T+ rating in America.
 
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