If you look at the timeline and how much cut content and censorship has affected Japanese localizations it's an upwards trend with more and more content being cut as time goes on. It will become out of control with rising game budgets, meeting a diminishing demand for games globally, nintendo especially will be pushed into a corner and it will use it's scissors to make it out alive. This censorship is based on sales. It all began when we decided the western consumer doesn't have the capacity to exercise reason and logic when purchasing games and once that was decided and the increasing safety net companies give to their consumers, the more reliant and less capable the consumer becomes at making informed choices thus censorship increases and the more 8-4 is asked to edit and censor on Nintendos behalf, the more avenues open for localizers to unintentionally overlay the content with their own political agendas and ideas. The more belief and solidity you give to the job of localizers/translators and put them under the impression that their jobs are incredibly important and that these games need to be fine tuned to cater toward innocent children, the more padding you'll see in games. Kids these days are is not usually hyper aware due to such accessibility to echnology and the internet, Nintendo's business model is stuck in the stone ages, Nintendo is scared of showing bouncy titty in a game for it's saint like, pure and innocent 5 year old fanbase when they're streaming 1 man 1 cup on twitch while fapping to transsexual porn as they walk down the street to buy slurpees at 7-11. Outdated ways of thinking, unnecessary censorship and a self defeating business model is what is happening here. Nothing good is coming out of this and it's only going to get worse and completely out of control.