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The story
The content details behind GTA6’s European age rating (PEGI) have been published, revealing depictions of decapitation and dismemberment as well as scenes of snorting cocaine. On the thread, some quickly offered a level-headed take — “rating content alone doesn’t prove it’s a masterpiece” — while others worried the Japanese version would face cuts or alterations under CERO’s review process. Workarounds were floated, like buying the Xbox version through an overseas account or switching region settings on PS5, but the discussion devolved into a standoff between posters warning of terms-of-service violations and account bans, and others insisting “no such rule exists” — leaving the legality of the whole approach unresolved.
What people said
• Certain weapons can inflict greater damage, including detailed decapitations and dismemberment.
• Players can snort cocaine.
Someone's face just turned bright red.
The global version has Japanese text in it anyway.
As long as it's not Japanese-exclusive, you could do the same on PS5 with a North American account.
Yep, that's a terms-of-service violation.
Account ban incoming.
Wasn't that supposed to get the whole PS5 console banned, not just the account?
By that logic the Xbox route would be a terms violation and ban too.
What terms? Xbox doesn't have any rule like that, lol.
It's just buying the domestic version with a domestic account — where's the terms violation in that, lol.
Otherwise there'd be no point in region settings existing per country at all.
Officially they just say they can't guarantee it'll work and you do it at your own risk.
That's basically the end of the story.
Wolverine wasn't even that gory. Calling that gore is a joke.
Uh, Trevor has a ton of scenes where he's doing drugs.
All the sexual content's a lost cause too.
Can't even properly play the original release — Japan's PS5 scene really is being put through the wringer, lol.
Even without censorship, Japanese players weren't gonna touch that stuff anyway 🥺
Wolverine.
There is packaging, apparently — just no physical disc inside.
Basically it's a box with a download code.
Previously it was just swapping out individual scenes.
If it's just about the depiction, they'd probably just restrict the camera angle or skip the animation.
But if the mission's actual objective itself is what trips the regulation, then sure, the whole mission could get axed.
The PS5 Digital Edition won't even run overseas discs/versions in the first place.
Didn't you know that?
Isn't creating a North American account on a PS5 itself grounds for a ban, unless you actually live in North America?
Background and Key Points
PEGI, Europe’s rating body, discloses granular details about violent and drug-related content as part of its standard process — a level of specificity that differs from how Japan’s CERO or the US’s ESRB operate. In Japan, CERO’s standards tend to flag excessively graphic violence and drug depictions for cuts or edits, and there’s precedent for Japanese releases differing from their overseas counterparts in content. What split the thread was whether buying an overseas version — exploiting the fact that Xbox’s international release includes Japanese-language support, or switching region settings on PS5/Xbox — actually violates platform terms of service and risks an account ban. The thread itself never settled the question. Platform terms generally don’t explicitly sanction faking your region setting, but whether that actually results in a ban in practice seems to depend on the platform and how strictly it’s enforced — something this thread alone couldn’t confirm.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Hardware & Industry (Gaming)) thread “[PS Great News] GTA6 Rating Content Revealed! Masterpiece Confirmed lolololol.”
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