![]() So don’t worry, Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo aren’t just suddenly uncomfortable with the idea of making a sexy game where sexy ladies do sexy stuff like this: In the same year, producer Yosuke Hayashi bragged about going “hands-on” with women’s breasts to properly model the bounce and jiggle for Dead or Alive 5, and responded to allegations of sexism by claiming nothing more than a mission to create “the cutest chicks in video games.” In a 2012 interview with Gamasutra about the developer’s then-upcoming Dead or Alive 5, game director Yohei Shimbori even described a request from his overseas office to “tone down the sexiness” and instead upped the breast size of female characters. Xtreme 3 will be releasing a full decade after Xtreme 2 went on sale, and in that time, the game industry - and the world around it - has undeniably seen some dramatic changes that Team Ninja has rejected. Naturally, everyone’s been focusing on the statement the publisher gave fearing backlash in a climate sensitive to the treatment of women in gaming, but there’s really only one reason the game isn’t coming to the West: it won’t sell. There’s been a surprising amount of controversy recently surrounding publisher Koei Tecmo’s decision not to release its upcoming babes-in-bikinis volleyball game Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 outside of Japan. ![]()
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