Japanese gamers are reportedly concerned that the country will be getting a censored version of GTA 6 when it releases next week.
It's no shocker that GTA 6 will get a high age rating from nearly every ratings board on the planet. The game deals with violence, drugs, sex, and all manner of debauchery, with the European ratings board reporting the game will feature "detailed decapitation and dismemberment," as well as cocaine that "can be carried around by the player and snorted directly from their hand at any time." Similarly with the game's couple protagonists, it's perhaps unsurprising that the Australian ratings board mentions "sex scenes" in its rating, however that's not the case everywhere.
The Japanese CERO rating is unsurprisingly the Z rating, indicating it's for players 18 years or older. However, the Japanese storefronts for the game feature icons for Violence and Crime, but lack one for sexual content and controlled substances. And Japanese Twitter users (translated via Automaton) have noticed that the file size of GTA 6 in Japan is 208.72 GB, whereas in other regions the game is 209.91GB on PS5, with a similar size discrepancy on the Xbox Series X|S versions.
Neither Take-Two nor Rockstar Games has confirmed any differences in the game's content between regions; however, it would not be the first time games have been censored in Japan. Granted, notable instances of this have been around decapitation and dismemberment, with Assassin's Creed Shadows toning down the violence, and alien dismemberment simulators Dead Space and The Callisto Protocol being banned outright in the country.
