Online retail giant Amazon recently listed the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller with an Adults Only rating. The listing raised a lot of eyebrows, especially fans and gamers. Over the years, the Japanese gaming company Nintendo has been considered as family-friendly by critics and fans.
Nintendo Switch Pro Controller's AO Rating
Amazon accidentally posted a standard Nintendo Switch Pro Controller on its site. The listing comes with the Adults Only (AO) rating. In the gaming industry, there are only 29 games with the same AO rating and all of these games, except for one, are only released on PC.
At present, the ESRB rating system ranges from E for Everyone to Mature (M). Interestingly, there are a couple of rare ratings at the end of each scale. These are the Early Childhood for games focused on educating with the EC marker with the other one that comes with the AO marker.
For the uninitiated, the Adults Only rating is viewed as more explicit compared to the Mature rating. Over the years, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony have forbidden any titles that the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) rates as Adult Only. Currently, the AO rating is the most explicit rating for video games.
Interestingly, the Adults Only rating is only applicable to video games. Hardware, consoles and controllers do not get the same rating. The reason for this is because these are just platforms to the worlds that the games offer.
Fortunately, Amazon has changed the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller rating to E, which means it is for everyone. As mentioned above, the Nintendo switch pro should not get any rating at all. Although the error is now fixed, Nintendo has not made any comment on the erroneous listing. Amazon has not issued any statements to clarify the issue.
"Super Mario" 35th Anniversary
In other Nintendo news, several sites recently reported about a newly discovered Twitter account. The said account has the Twitter handle @Supermario35th registered in March 2020. It has the name 'aaaaaaaaaaa' and so far, has no activity.
VGC recently reported the Twitter account citing eagle-eyed fans as the source of information. It also revealed that the email recovery of the said Twitter account is linked to Nintendo. Moreover, while the characters used in the account are obscured for security measure, it aligns with the address' Nintendo.co.jp, the site noted. SmashBroJP and SplatoonJP reportedly utilize the same email address.
Nintendo has not yet issued any statement about the rumored Twitter account. But the company is certainly preparing something big for the 35th anniversary of the world's most iconic plumber.
