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September 03, 2005

PSP Launches with Nudity

Have a look at the images on this non-English site. Specifically, look at the sixth one down in the column of small pics.

It appears the PSP launched with painted-but-quite-obviously-topless men and women recently.

Read about it here on Kotaku.

This launch brings up a couple interesting points:

1. Can you imagine if this happened in the US?

2. How do booth babes and the like affect the way others view sexual content in games or the games industry in general?

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Comments

Booth Babes in Sweden would never exist. That would have been written all over the press. Sweden is one of the most equal country in the world.
This is more of an artistic thing and is therefore ok in sweden.

Posted by: ditopper at September 3, 2005 03:44 AM

Looks just like fantasy fest to me, which is a normal yearly thing here in America. But yes, if we did that with video games, Bush would probably fall dead right then, and Cheney would ban games just before his heart explodes.

Posted by: Charles Jackson at September 3, 2005 06:53 PM

glad to see some boys in there; if this had happened in the US, they'd have all been ladies.
i don't know if this is so much about Sex In Gaming as it is about Fetishization, or more generally, Preoccupation. that is, sony is equating the interest that consumers have in the PSP with the interest that they have in naked chests. this is a rather optimistic comparison in their part.

Posted by: mattymatt at September 6, 2005 01:44 PM

I'm not Swedish but I've lived in Sweden, and I think that Swedish people don't necessarily assimilate nudity to sexuality, they can make the difference between these 2 things. They think nudity can be fine in certain contexts as long as it's not sexualised or as long as it doesn't have a degrading connotation. Those images look pretty innocent to me.

Posted by: larmes at September 28, 2005 04:33 PM