Sony viste noen særdeles intense og voldelige trailere under pressekonferansen sin på Paris Games Week. Både The Last of Us: Part II og Detroit: Become Human viste grov vold mot barn og kvinner. Begge trailerne vekket sterke reaksjoner, og kritikerne fordømmet bruken av så ekstrem vold for å selge spill.
Sjef ved Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe og Global Sales and Marketing for Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan, har tatt til ordet mot kritikken i et intervju med The Telegraph:
"The Last of Us obviously is a game made by adults to be played by adults. I should never prejudge this but it will probably be rated 18, I think it's fair to say. And there's that market for those people who like that sort of game. Adults who like that sort of game. And I think we cater for that, and at the other end of the spectrum there was Concrete Genie, which my eight-year-old decided was the game she would like to play very much."
"I think what we're trying to do is to portray qualities of the various games we had on show. And I think it is difficult when you have a clip of four or five minutes to synthesise a gameplay experience that can be measured in the tens of hours. And, again, the studio was seeking to portray a game that will be rated as suitable for adults to play and that's what we did."
På spørsmål om det var riktig å vise disse scenen svarer Jim Ryan:
"I do. Yeah, I do. Again, we have a range of experiences. And that game will be there to be enjoyed by adults."
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