B-but... world trends! Sexism! Feminism! Bad fanservice!
Ugh. They're smelling disaster and doing some sort of damage control.
This is like the third time they backpedal on the wokeness shown in previous interviews.
They did it in DoA5 but not to the extent of:
- Directly using social justice lingo to justify it
- The creative director at Team Ninja being so... politically outspoken about the series direction
- Social media accounts claiming the spinoff does not have a place in today's world
- Japanese accounts no longer promoting the game at all
- Adding homoerotic fanservice but sucking all of it off on the feminine side (bust size, physics, costumes...)
It's like they read the old neogaf thread and followed its recommendations to a T, which wouldn't be surprising.
The PR team have a hard on for that kind of politics, so the mistranslated comments might be a possibility but I wouldn't discount the possibility of the director being fully on board. They bet on esports and their latest stream had abysmal numbers which means the core audience left and the complaining audience "who doesn't feel welcomed" didn't replace it, and so far the plan is to scuttle this fanservice franchise because "that doesn't sell anymore in 20XX" but in the process that means the director is losing his job, and so he's doing a panicked attempt at damage control.
The reason why I still think they're beyond hope nonetheless and still politically compromised ... this damage control trailer is still all about "realism" .. the physics are hardly noticeable. The gaming press is trying to convince the old fanbase to still buy the game, in the hope (that might never materialize) that sexy DLCs will come to milk those dumb whales. So that this doesn't become a complete financial flop and a cautionary tale for publishers in the future.