Obviously, it isn't a linear timeline as I just described (I think a lot of AAA woke is to justify micro transactions), but the same idea applies. It's like how micro transactions went from Mass Effect 3 to Star Wars Battlefront.
You make it sound so peaceful, so innocent. But you forget how battlefront 2 caused many 40 big Laffs and corporate pants shitting to the point where EA has now lost exclusivity to the star wars license. The Journey was worth it for the destination and all the enlightening truths revealed along the way.
By the way microtransactions started with Oblivion Horse Armor. That was the first cosmetic DLC which are considered microtransactions today.
Here's something separate, DLC makes up a good chunk of purchases now, this is across the board for every platform. But since we're talking about playstation here's the most recent graph.
If you're thinking censorship ever gets to a billion dollar level if you're making the DLC comparison you'd first have to ask how profitable censorship is in the first place. As of current every game that got affected were games that didn't even do well in japan. So if sony is targeting games that even the japanese as a whole don't want how could there be any significant blacklash that many seem to be wishing for? Especially since we're going on 3 years of the policy in place. I mean Disney got it's ass beaten by the star wars crowd before year 3 and that had major financial effects. Hell you can even bring up the Playstation 3 and how that bombed at launch and that also had a direct immediate effect.
You also have the same issues that came out with Comicsgate and related things where most of the people involved don't care about the medium and just want to own the libtards. That doesn't make a steady consistent movement and will always splinter and cause infighting.
And say the nigh impossible happens and all devs ever leave and sign exclusivity deals with Nintendo, censorship and libtards won't end that way. You've got the assorted factions of the Nintendo fandom themselves who are the moviebobs or animal crossing troons who are all politically driven and some who have ties to treehouse, and now everything is in the same boat they're all on. You're now back to square 1 with less spaces on the board to move around on the consumer level. And as the corporate level goes Nintendo has a history of screwing thing ups, especially if there's no other players at the table.
You leave for PC, it's a similar deal because Valve has also blocked far more games from appearing on steam, except now you don't even have physical copies anymore.
And anyone who collects physical doesn't trust any of these companies as far as you can throw them.
Basically at that point it's pick your poison. But personally I still don't see any major shifts, there's too many things that have not come to fruition that are a year or so out. That kadokawa deal is meant to grow a ton of Japanese based IPs. But weather they'll be good games or not depends on when they come out.