Six Days Cancellation another Sign that Video Games needs to Grow UP!

Just announced, Konami has killed Six Days in Fallujah due to:

""After seeing the reaction to the videogame in the United States and hearing opinions sent through phone calls and e-mail, we decided several days ago not to sell it," a public relations official of Konami said. "We had intended to convey the reality of the battles to players so that they could feel what it was like to be there."

So taking the fact of the game aside. Which is easy because we REALLY never knew what the game was REALLY about because it was supposed to come out on or around 2010.

The bigger issue here is that the game was canceled because people had a problem with the content. When was the last time a movie or even better a book was canceled on such grounds ?

This is a sign that the video game industry is not made up of "artists" as everyone wants to believe but rather made up of sales people. Who's only concern is what sells and what won't and not offend any of it's customers.

This is certainly not directed at the protesters of this game. You folks probably have a point. But free speech is free speech and Konami did have a RIGHT to make this game. Even if they decided it wasn't in their best politically correct interest to do so.

I'm simply saying that people in the movie industry, publishing industry, or heaven forbid people who make art like sculptures or paintings; would NEVER stop making something because it was unpopular to do so. In fact, they usually relish this sort of thing.

Finally, considering no one except the developer REALLY knows what the game would have consisted of, it's possible that the game could have made an incredible statement about war and why it's a moral quagmire. Perhaps it could have realistically portrayed the lives of soldiers in the modern battlefield. Who knows it could have done justice to the memory of everyone who has lived through and died during the recent conflicts. But hey folks, better to not make the game. Because you never know...

Finally the game could still be made by a different publisher, but Konami was a big gun to have turn you down. I'm REALLY hoping this project isn't COMPLETELY dead.

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