Korea and Japan may not be playing the same GTA 6 that the rest of us gets to play.
InvenGlobal reports that Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) almost denied giving GTA 6 a rating, effectively banning it from sale.
The timeline goes like this:
- September 1 – Rockstar submits GTA 6 to GRAC for a rating
- September 10 – 3 votes to rate it Adults Only, 3 votes to refuse rating
- September 28 – a playable build of GTA 6 is sent to GRAC, delayed for security reasons
- October 2 – GRAC staff postpone their second round of voting
- October 8 – GRAC meeting is cancelled due to a lack of quorum
- October 16 – GTA 6 receives 8 votes to rate it Adults Only, 1 vote to refuse rating
GRAC staff don’t object to the game’s violence, but debated the depiction of sex instead. GRAC has changed their standards around sex, to the point that they decided nudity doesn’t warrant a ban.
While this is going, fans believe that GTA 6 was censored by CERO in Japan because of its smaller filesize there. This hasn’t been officially confirmed, but given CERO’s history it’s credible.
