Sony Does What Nintendon’t By Removing A Bunch Of ‘eSlop’ Titles – Nintendo Life
GuestGuestLogin | Sign UpNintendo LifeGuestLogin or Sign UpYour move, NintendoSony has seemingly finally made a move against some of the so-called ‘eSlop’ plaguing digital storefronts in recent years.According to True Trophies (thanks Push Square), the company has removed a whole bunch of titles from the PSN store, mostly from developer RandomSpin Games. This comes after an extensive investigation from IGN, numerous complaints from developers, and our own coverage on the issue.Though it’s a step in the right direction, there’s obviously still a long way to go. The big thing here, however, is that Sony appears to be taking more action than Nintendo at the time of writing. Games have certainly been removed from the Switch eShop in the past; most notably the Last of Us rip-off titled The Last Hope, but this was likely the result of a copyright strike from Sony due to the blatant similarities to its own IP.Granted, we’re almost certain that Nintendo has removed the odd game here and there without us noticing, but it’s definitely noteworthy that Sony has effectively wiped out a single developer’s back catalogue in one swoop, while the same developer continues to have a big presence on Switch.Just one quick search of ‘RandomSpin Games’ on the eShop brings up a bevy of cheap-as-chips titles, including Alien Destroyer, Rainbow Snake, Difficult Climbing Game (good lord…), Instant Death (lovely), Funny Truck, Unalive 010, Item Tower, and more.This isn’t to mention the dozens of other developers pumping out games plastered with keywords, AI-generated key art, and heavy discounts on already-cheap prices. For those of us in the know, most, if not all of these games simply fade into the background as we search for what we’re really after, but our hearts go out to those who perhaps aren’t as well-informed.It’s a minefield out there.The rise of “eSlop”Sea of low-qualityProgress, however small, is still progress. So what do you make of this move from Sony? Should Nintendo follow suit? Let us know with a comment down below.[source truetrophies.com, via pushsquare.com]About Ollie ReynoldsNintendo Life’s resident horror fanatic, when he’s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry.Comments 91I don’t mind them hitting the clear scam titles off of their platform, but I hope this doesn’t lead to them removing earnest creativity on their store.For real, if I’m in the market for a multi platform game, I’ll give the business to PlayStation because I genuinely loathe the experience of browsing the eShop. Whatever happened to the Nintendo seal of quality?According to True Trophies (thanks Push Square)insert Obama awarding himself a medal hereOn one hand, nice. Less clutter on the platformOn the other hand, where should the boundary lie? If you remove some games, even shovelware, there will always be a question of whether you should also remove other games that are not really… that fantastic. And there will always be someone that would have liked them.Same with ripoffs. If you remove the last hope, should you also remove Genshin Impact for example?Good job Sony! But it would already be easier to plough through the sludge if the eShop was more responsive and quicker to load. The PS Store is really quick on PS5. I hope Nintendo “fixes” the eShop on Switch 2.Out of curiosity, does anyone here actually browse through digital storefronts to find games? I ask because I never do. With the exception of Steam Discovery Queue, I always get games based on advertising, word of mouth, reviews, “hidden gems lists” etc. etc.Good, I hope Nintendo follows suit.It’s very easy to tell the difference between the eSlop and the rest. Usually naming conventions, obvious use of AI and asset flips, and above all, the sheer quantity of it all.I get people being worried some genuine stuff might get caught, but if they put these barriers in place the genuine devs will work to get past them because they care. The people who make this eSlop don’t care, they’re doing it because it’s easy.@Vriess Yeah I’m hoping this will be the case with Switch 2. It seems unlikely that Nintendo will remove any of this stuff, so making the eShop fast and responsive will at least go a long way to making it a more tolerable experience.Steam removed games that had in-game advertisements too. I love this movement and hope Nintendo will follow suit. As store keepers, I believe it is their duty to protect their customers from being scammed into buying e-slop.@Ogbert They’ll care about it getting removed though so they’ll probably be looking at ways to get past the barriers too.need a stronger move against slop and shovelware spamming the stores. low effort churned out trash that will only become more pervasive with AI emerging and doing a lot of the work. there was once a concept of a CURATED store with a STANDARD. Nintendo and as well as Sony should return to that and block the junk.Did they remove Palworld?This is great! I wouldn’t be in favor of banning all shovelware because how would we even define that, but banning AI-generated slop seems like a good move. A better curated store gets more visits and sales; that’s pretty simple.Nintendo needs to do this also with the Switch 2.Yeah, like some others here I’m worried that this could lead to the removal of legitimate games by mistake or whatever other reason – again, the better solution in my opinion would be to let users customize their eShop by hiding such games and/or publishers and even just those that don’t interest them etc.!For the Switch’s first few years, I’d occasionally enjoy a bad game the same way people enjoy bad movies. Now I get my fill of that just looking through the new releases. There are plenty of genuine gems buried in the mountains of sub-$5 eshop games, but they only get harder to find the more low-effort garbage gets heaped on top of them. If Nintendo doesn’t purge the Switch eshop, I do at least hope they section it off from the Switch 2’s and keep a better eye on what gets in there.Removing “shovelware” to me feels like censorship. If a game does anything at all and doesn’t contain any illegal content (ip theft, copyright infringements, malware, etc) it should not be removed from the store.At max. those games could be hidden by default, like how Steam* does this, but if you really want them you can still buy them.So NO this is NOT a good thing. At all.*) Steam by default hides games that are unverifiied or have low user engagement.Give me the option to hide games and devs, and we good.Putting it out there again – better filtering and, yes, blocking options for the next eShop. Certain studios, publishers, keywords etc knocked on the bonce at the user’s behest. The very second someone busts out a keyword flak cannon, their ass is toast. That way it’s on the user to tailor their experience the way they see fit, not the provider.This is exactly why I’ve ditched Facebook recently – there was such an insane pile of toxic BS, none of my friends’ content or any of my interests were making it to my feed; all I wound up doing was blocking stuff L, R & C.Ultimately, it’s the question many gamer parents must dread coming from little Maisie and/or Johnny: “Daddy, what’s hentai?” That’s a conversation one hopefully never has to have, but if you do, it’s on your terms and at your time of choosing, not forced by some half-arsed farted-out AI/asset-flip slurry.Sort out your s##t, Big N.I think it’s important to have all this eSlop. Given the mountains of fertilizer on the eShop, some great games are bound to grow from them.The problem with the eShop is that junk games have the same visibility as everyone else. They are always on the front page, with 90% discounts and new packages that repeat every month (deluxe version, super extra and so on).We need a review and rating system like on Steam that brings these games to the bottom of the release list.If I want to buy the new “H3nt4i Waifu Simulator Deluxe”, I have to look for it on purpose, I don’t want it on the front page! Ah these problems in the modern, digital age. EShop keepers and shoppers have to deal with the rising flood of crap “games” generated increasingly by AI, blatant ripoffs, and asset flips of games being rehashed infinitely. Unscrupulous publishers are burying the platforms with slop, making it harder for the cream (games created by humans with genuine care, passion, and ingenuity) to rise to the top.I’m glad Sony took action, and I sincerely hope Nintendo ups their efforts too. Put a review board in place to weed out the slop! It’s a new age with new problems that will only get worse as people seem hellbent on making humanity subservient to AI.@PillowpantsSteam also banned future games with adsUpcoming games with ads won’t be allowed to be released on Steam.I hope Nintendo doesn’t just transfer the entire eShop to Switch 2 the same as NSO. Something’s got to give. Blocking content and more extensive filtering surely can’t be that hard.What they need is an e-slop fusion mechanic so I can simulate the life of a homeless person begging for change outside of hentai shop with nothing but a jumping muffin to my name@Princess_Lilly As someone who has played Genshin Impact for the last three years, I can tell you that it is by no means a ripoff. Yes, it takes some inspiration from other fantasy games like Zelda when it comes to gameplay, but that’s like saying that Shantae is a ripoff of Metroid and Castlevania (since the Shantae series is classified as a Metroidvania), or that Undertale is a ripoff of Earthbound.What sets all of those games apart is the world that the game developers created. Speaking as a writer and a gamer, I am increasingly of the belief that the most important aspect of any video game is the world-building and storytelling. That’s what truly sets a game apart from the rest in its respective genre.Besides, do you think that the Zelda series came up with all of its gameplay elements on its own? Climbing Sheikah Towers to light up portions of the map is no different than what you did in Assassin’s Creed, where you climbed up to a high perch to light up a part of the map. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor did this as well, and that also came out before BOTW. Plus, the original Zelda borrowed certain elements from Hydlide, which came out before Zelda did.So, yeah, Genshin Impact is not a ripoff, despite what people say. And it stands as one of my favorite games in recent years. Maybe even more so than Zelda, especially since it always gives me something to come back to, with frequent updates, events, and quests to complete. Can’t really say the same thing about Zelda: once I complete a Zelda game, I find it hard to play again, since the wonder of playing it for the first time is gone.At the very least, there should be a tagged by user function but allow the user to create the tag themselves, because I’m sure Nintendo wouldn’t create “terrible” or “slop” tags.Sorry, but unless a game is an asset swap or doesn’t work I don’t agree with Sony removing those games just because they deem them to be bad.I looked through those games and Unalive/Instant Death look like decent retro shooters that have “mostly postive” reviews on Steam and I don’t see what’s wrong with Rainbow Snake for 89p (eShop price) It’s just a remake of the old Snake game we all had on our Nokias… the climbing game and funny trucks look like novelty “so bad their good” type games that there’s actually a market for as YouTubers like to play them and make fun of them. Equivalent to b-movies.@AnnoyingFrenzy Occasionally I scroll the deals page, just in case there’s a diamond in the rough, but outside of that not really.Personally the shovelware games of the DS/Wii era never really bothered me that much…but it seems like in recent years there are some games that have reached new lows. Asset flips, lazily ai generated games, blatant rip-offs etc. I have no problem with them getting the heave ho.I think games that have had clear effort put into them should stay though. Even if we might look at them and deem them “bad”.BUT WHAT ABOUT GAME PRESERVATION!!!!!???????If you want to make a low effort game then you should be able to publish it on whatever platform you want. You shouldn’t get the same visibility as games that actually deserve attention though, which is one of the biggest problems on the eShop.Seems like a simple fix to me…hire teams to play just a fraction of every game that gets submitted and decide if it deserves to be on the recent releases tab or at the top of the special offers section etc. If not, bury it. Have it so users will only see them when they scroll towards the bottom of said tabs or actively search for them. Giving everyone more or less equal visibility is admirable but in practice only makes for a terrible experience and just makes it harder for quality games to succeed.Keyword and publisher exclusions in the Recent Releases list would be a godsend, honestly. Taking it a step further, something Nintendo could be adjusting their submissions policy to restrict how many “update submissions” a publisher can have and how soon after the previous version they can push out the next version. Like the should only be at most 2 versions of any game, the vanilla version and the upgrade. Anything more and the previous or redundant versions should be taken down. Major publishers seem to do that themselves when removing Launch Editions. But since it’s a practice not an enforced rule, it seems like a loophole these low-effort publishers are abusing just for visibility. As for frequency, maybe after 4 months until the next version could come out, with the delisting of the previous one effective immediately on release. Even if honest efforts are out there, no one’s going to know which is the most current and content complete when your game brings back a million different “Editions” when searched.Is Ninetndo maybe waiting for switch 2 to address eshop shovelware/slop? I don’t think it’s helping them.🎶Taking out the trash, taking out the trash🎶WOW! Sony does one good thing for customers instead of something morally bankrupt and purey for profit.Yawn. Who cares. Do they want a medal?@JohnnyMind The problem with relying on the user to hide the games is for new users, or people less gaming savvy, that’s a massive ask and barrier to use the shop.Imagine you don’t know what is and isn’t a good game, maybe you don’t play games and you’re looking for your kids. How would you know that all the AI generated puppy images are actually hiding shoddy cash-grab slop? You might not even recognise that’s what they are. You’d probably see how many there were and think “wow they’re popular, there are so many, they must be good!”. They’ll buy it, realise it’s awful and having seen how much of it there is, probably not go back to the eShop again.People like that are more the bulk of any console’s audience but especially Nintendo’s. They need to create a system that protects them from these scams, especially if they want to keep them and grow them into the bigger fans like us who frequent Nintendo themed news sites. Nintendo’s eShop should be a place you can trust.But I would love to have it as well.@Ogbert A quick search can more often than not help you avoid “scam” games (and most people are constantly using their phones anyway) but even leaving that aside, Nintendo could and in my opinion should bring back user scores like they used to have on 3DS and Wii U – while not perfect that would definitely be better than nothing for that purpose!AI generated crap need to go, but so does the rest of the shovelware. I wonder what percentage of the eShop is filled with shovelware.@sanderev It’s not censorship. Censorship would be removing a game bc it contains political or religious themes that the owners of the storefront disagree with. It’s not censorship for Walmart to not sell the movies that got 3% on rotten tomatoes. It’s not censorship for Best Buy to stop selling the crappy tv that people dislike and got tricked into buying. It’s just creating a standard. They need to put their foot down now before AI gets too advanced. Otherwise people will create entire games in less than an hour with AI, publish them to the EShop and swindle people out of their hard earned money. It’s not censorship, it’s curation. Something I agree with. I’m all for indie developers living out their dreams and making a game for their favorite console, but the kind of AI slop companies that pump out dozens of lame, unimaginative games in the span of a month should not be allowed on a Nintendo console. Their games should be on steam or the App Store. Or better yet, on those crappy “free online games” websites like crazygames.com or something 😂Being able to hide trash titles/developers on the shop should be an option. They can still peddle their wares, we just have the option not to look at them. Being able to rate games again would be helpful too.@JohnnyMind I’m not quite into that idea, because what if they release a game that does interest you, or help you understand a whole new genre of gameplay or storytelling?I’m just not a fan of the idea of blanket blocking because of shallow disinterest in the heat of the moment.Nothing wrong with a little bit of curation. Usually only takes a few minutes to tell if a game is pure garbage hahaGod bless the creator of dekudeals.com.@Samalik That’s exactly why it should be optional, reversible and case by case so for specific games first and foremost (although why not give an option to hide certain developers and/or publishers for those intersted in that?).@Dev-N Nintendo’s probably gonna build a new eShop for the Switch 2 (unknown if it will be an app or not), so maybe it will also get new features like shopping cart, review/rating and gifting, even filter features to just filter out developers and games we don’t want to see.Not gonna lie, some of those names (game titles) make me curious 🤭🤭🤭@DiggleDog The seal of quality literally just meant “this game won’t make your system die”. A lot of bad stuff was still released on Nintendo consoles.The difference though is that crappy games still took effort while AI generated slip takes literally ZERO effort whatsoever.@MrCarlos46 I remember when Nintendo experimented with ratings and reviews on their website at one point during the Switch’s life before removing them for whatever reason.What’s interesting is the should stop them when they are submitted not after!@JohnnyMind It’s because doing so isn’t going to make it easy to reverse. When they hide something, they hide it. So how do you know it is something to “unhide” if you never know it exists?It does start to overstep what a storefront is logistically trying to do: sell you stuff.Again, I’d rather just have a tidy storefront that lets all creativity shine on the same stage.Inversely, a better system would be to allow following highlight developers. But not hiding the meaningful content. This way if you are feeling adventurous, you can take a look at the “what’s new” page and see everything.The garbage is going to keep popping up, this only encourages bottom feeder companies to be more creative which risks legitimate titles getting caught in splash damage. Better to encourage customers to be more discerning with their purchases, but instead everyone expects companies to put up the safety rails for them. It’s really not hard to do 30 seconds of research to find out if title is garbage and scrolling past obvious crap to let it starve is similarly easy.There must be always gamers who loved that games. İf Sony have removed games there must be something in that games but it looks like that games was great big games.Nintendo have removed games too but İ do not think that games was that important games. From Nintendo Switch İ know like everything.I was really looking forward to Sex Shop Simulator! Companies are so soft these days.@Samalik Highlighting games and/or developers you’re interested in would be a cool additional option, but considering how you worded your latest reply I feel that you misunderstood what I mean: everything should be visible by default, but there should be options to let users filter out specific games, developers and/or publishers – that’s exactly because storefronts shouldn’t hide or even worse remove games as that could affect legitimate games instead of or along with “scam” ones (we’ve already seen it happen with Nintendo Life’s Better eShop’s “Shovelware” filter and good thing that only hid games instead of removing them unlike in Sony’s case)… but at the same time there’s no good reason why people’s personal eShops have to be flooded with games they’re not interested in, especially “scam” ones!Meh. I’d rather do my own homework (as expected from anyone sufficiently nerdy about video games which you’d assume to be everyone who so much as aware of this website, let alone frequenting its comment sections) than trust something interesting not to get caught up in a purge. Especially since a whole multitude of such cases gets routinely dubbed “eSlop” and “shovelware” on par with the most egregiously AI-licious offerings. Anf the general hijinks of PS Store management (wanna talk visibility on the platform that never fixed OG Resident Evil 2’s absent console display to the point of effectively delisting it with the related browser store segment afterwards?😅) do little to address this wariness. That said, custom user filters/blacklists impacting no browsing experience but their own (as often suggested in these discussions including some comments above) do sound like a more plausible middle ground.Yeah, a simple hide/block filter would be handy. Although it puts the onus on the user to do it, and I fear Nintendo wouldn’t go for it, as they’d ultimately see it as something that would lead to fewer sales if there are fewer games visible, but surely users would be more inclined to buy something decent if they didn’t have to wade through hundreds of pages of garbage to get to it.What happened to the Nintendo Seal of Quality?????Sometimes I wonder if the perceived shovelware is not all shovelware in actuality. Maybe there’s some real hidden gems in the dump.I think there should be a platform dedicated to testing some of these unknowns out, even if they’re comically bad- they could be so bad they’re still fun lol. Maybe could be a new idea for NLife to try like 5 random Eshop shovelware picks a month and do mini-reviews and/or video content?@Coalescence I think the context is that most people don’t wanna see shovelware or eSlop games and want filters to be added so they can filter them out even though we may not know that there are some potentially good games.@DiggleDog @X68000 the so-called “Seal of Quality” was merely a commission a company paid to Nintendo to agree to publish their games.It’s not an actual legal seal.@AnnoyingFrenzy Deku deals. I’m in the middle of making a youtube channel series with a bunch of hidden gems which I’ve found in the deepest darkest depths of the eshop.@G_and_Thomas I was being ironic, but thank you for the clarification.some global filtering options would fix this problem with no drawbacks besides a minimal amount of effort on their part.I still cant BELIEVE that im on a Nintendo platform with1) porn somehow on there at all andB) no way to filter it, or even flag it!even shady VHS rental places had that stuff behind a curtain. 🙄PS – I’m not a prude, or even anti porn. I’m anti BS on the eShop. There are better places to get these kinds of materials (in case anyone needs to hear that lol.)@JohnnyMind A search requires you to know what you want, not everybody does.Ratings are also tricky, as we’ve seem on steam countless times they can be used for bad with review bombs from those with bad intent.Not meaning to be contrary btw, I think ideally all these systems or some version of them could work and should work. But at the end of the day Nintendo’s reputation is on the line by allowing scam products to be there at all. Imagine going to a store to buy a chocolate bar, but some of them are actually just cardboard in a wrapper? First one you’ll probably complain and return it, second one you’ll definitely complain and return it, third one you’re never going to that shop again. If you even went back after the first or second.@-wc- “porn”….@AnnoyingFrenzy I do. It’s mostly out of convenience and immediate availability. If I’m already on my Switch or Xbox, it’s quicker for me to just go to their dedicated shops rather than whip out a separate device to browse games. Granted, I do also rely on word of mouth and/or gaming sites when it comes to specific games. I also use Deku Deals. But yes, I do browse their digital storefrontsThis sort of shovelware plagued the Wii shop. I can’t believe they didn’t up their standards for what they allow on the Switch store but I guess money is money@Samalikyes? care to elaborate? ✌️Can we also do something about publishers that periodically keep re-re-re-releasing the same game in 500 different bundle packs, each with a different piece of “DLC” attached that changes a color palette or adds a background skin, and gets released as “GOTY Edition”, “Happy Edition”, “Super Edition”, ad infinitum? Looking at you, Reddeer Games.@JohnnyMind this is the way!! Let me block certain devs, as one example, like you said.@DK_Dude333 Actually all those examples are censorship (to some degree).Actually I asked ChatGPT to give a correct explaination:”It depends on what you mean by “censor.” If you’re talking about outright banning or restricting AI-generated games, that could stifle creativity and innovation. AI can be a powerful tool for developers, helping with everything from level design to character creation. However, if the concern is about low-quality, spammy, or misleading games flooding the market, then some level of regulation or quality control might be necessary.Another issue is AI-generated content potentially copying existing work without proper credit. If AI games are just remixing existing IPs or artwork without permission, that could be a legal and ethical problem.”So yeah, ChatGPT agrees. Banning games just because they’re AI generated is stupid. But even ChatGPT wants some control. I agree with that as well, but outright banning them goes 2 steps too far.@G_and_Thomas IMO the quality seal made more sense when in the NES era companies had a yearly limit of games they could publish only increases by having high rated games (if I remember correctly).I think Nintendo should re-institute a limit on games published per year, with exceptions for bigger publishers like Square, Microsoft, Capcom, SEGA, etc.These bad games work on pure volume of releases so if lesser known publishers and indies could only publish 2 games a year on Switch they’d be forced to focus on quality over quantity. All the best indie devs usually spend several years on one game so a limit of 2 per year wouldn’t be a barrier to good games. And it’d make smaller publishers more selective over what they release@ButterySmooth30FPS Eh, I doubt that even Nintendo at its most permissive would’ve let something like that through. A title like that is basically screaming AO from the ESRB, and that’s a line Nintendo ain’t letting anyone cross on their hardware (for the record, Sony and Microsoft also keep that line in place)…Funny Truck is hands down the worst game I’ve ever wasted my money on. But they can pry Gran Carismo out of my cold dead hands!It varies. I have seen some really bad ones and gone eh I’ll buy and review it. But others despite their laziness have decent ideas.The really bad ones (even from their trailers to their YT channel) to just the yes jumping food ones are blatantly obvious.The bad ones on their YT channel I assume they are trying. I’m no artist but if it lands enough in gameplay sure, problem is they don’t.Sony needs all the games they can get. It’s not like these trashware games were any worse than anything Ubisoft, EA, Bethesda, etc are barfing out.The switch store has long been a sea of low quality cash grab shovelware by low quality cash grabbing mobile game devs.This is why we need a block feature for those low-effort & literal softcore porn publishers, all that is hiding all the good games under a mountain of manure. I hope the Switch 2’s e-Shop doesn’t become an e-Slop 2, built-in filter system to block certain keywords, mines would be hentai, those awful mobile games & low effort AI added to a block list.Remove them all you want Sony but don’t be surprise if this also came back to bite you later on. The game these developer release may be trash at first but erasing their games without their permission is one of the few ways of getting on their bad side cause eventually these same developers could later easily make some great games too and when that time comes, it will be your platform that they avoid. Remember like Naughty Dog and Rare who once made bad games in their early run, these guys would eventually go on to make classics, if a dev end up turning their trash into treasure in the future it would be you Sony that will miss out on those. I’m not saying for you to stop what you’re doing, I’m just saying what goes around comes around.@Daniel36 This would be a great solution if they implemented it@GoatFace04 The simplest one too. You can’t tell me it’s difficult to implement for Nintendo.After buying 22 Hentai games, I kind of had my fill and don’t want to see the new editions in the list. (Joking)@Serpenterror You’re giving waaaaaaaaay too much credit for AI-generated/asset-flip/ripoff titles from unscrupulous devs. Many of which don’t even have PS5 kits, by the way. 😆@AnnoyingFrenzy Nope, never. I get information from game lists for a console as well as the types of resources you mentioned. There are too many games to go through, and although I gave up on reviews decades ago, word of mouth and suggestions and opinions from people who have played a game are still the best way to find obscure games. The exception being reviews posted directly to a product’s own page directly on an e-shop, which tend to be unimformative, heavily biased one way or the other to the point of being entirely black and white, or just spammy and generally just completely useless.@Vriess Aye, can’t stand browsing the Nintendo eShop. Xbox Series store is so fast. I hardly touch the Switch due to how slow it is, but what amazes me, in a very negative way, is how Nintendo did not care to update the Switch since a long time ago and kept it slow. They could have sped up the eShop and other apps like the Nintendo online, but no, they kept it slow, not sure why. Since it’s based on a mobile chip, well we know that these can run faster than that to display simple content (not referring to games).@sanderev I see your point, but why you used ChatGPT to explain it for you is beyond me. I would personally love to see games that look like they were ported straight from the darkest corners of roblox completely banned from a nintendo console. But for the five people that actually enjoy that stuff i suppose we could keep it. My compromise would be for eShop 2.0 to contain a similar blocking feature to Spotify. When I come across games like “Henti Girls: Juicy Judo” (Completely real game btw) I should also be able to select it and have options to “Hide this game” and “Hide all games from this developer” It would take a little effort, but within 20 mins with this feature, I could effectively wipe my eshop clean of games I don’t want to see, buy, or play. That, I think, is the most logical next step for nintendo. Let me have more filters, more categories, and the ability to Hide/Block games and developers. If they can do that and not make the eShop a website page that the internal web browser has to connect to every time, the switch 2 eShop could be a really great experience.@-wc- Golden rule of eslop: If it has “hentai”, “waifu” or other curiously chosen words in the title, it’s not real hentai. Just baity bullcrap.Actual eroge blend in with a lot of the JRPGs and Visual Novels that get released because they actually seek to have a loyal, long-lasting audience, not rip the customer off.@AstroTheGamosian I also played GI for a long time, since launch actually. I also played BOTW and an ungodly amount of other games. I am not saying that in a hostile manner and I appreciate your input, I just want to set the background of my opinion.And I am going to be honest, I really like GI, but there are games inspired by others, and games that take the majority of the gameplay from 1 single other game. Genshin played very much like Zelda BOTW, and so many details were straight up replicated, from the climbing everywhere mechanic with climbing the trees and gathering fruit, to cooking in designated cooking points, to fire arrows and gliding, to the whole exploration along with treasure chests for solving tiny puzzles (relocating a stone so that it matches pattern on the ground).Zelda was novel and invented many different things. It was super plastic and memorable for it. Sure, the towers were taken from Ubi (or probably from some earlier game that Ubi copied because Ubi replicates many things from the competitors), but for every thing that was borrowed, 10 more were novel and fresh.I fully agree that worldbuilding (WB) and storytelling (ST) is very important (maybe not for racing games like Tokyo Xtreme, but even Wipeout had some worldbuilding with manufacturers). And GI has very nice WB and ST (I was so worried for Kachina that one time, I was so invested in that storyquest). Well maybe beside the fact that they casually dropped the biggest plottwist in a time limited event with the meteorites (I remember it to this day) Do I play Genshin more than Zelda Botw? Definitely. But could Genshin even exist without Zelda Botw? I really don’t think so.@Samaliki appreciate that there is a distinction, but I don’t take porn that seriously.fair enough, though: “clickbaity, porn-presenting content” then. 👍to each their own ✌️@-wc- Well, I mean, when you start seeing what these games are actually like and how human they can be, the eslop becomes even more insulting and comes off as someone who took sex ed from P-hub.So yeah, I do take it seriously.@SamalikI will take your word for it 👍✌️ I did not mean to besmirch all erotic materials, just the obvious trash that I see on the eshop, and the odd reality of it being on a Nintendo platform. 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