The first point you mentioned is...kinda irrelevant. Joker being in Smash is completely separate from Sony knowing what will be coming to their console, mainly because Persona 5: The Royal is Sony Exclusive.
At least, I would think Sony would have an idea.
While i’m not familiar with the games you mentioned, I still stand by my point that we’re talking about teenage characters wearing bathing suits, or a leotard.
My point was Sony seems to have double standard when it comes to their own games and third party anime games...
And yeah... but that argument has been talked about many times when they are just teenage characters... in a video game... complain on whether it's appropriate to wear has always been silly imo.
Frankly, in some cases the censorship thing seems like it doesn’t necessarily make a difference. If somebody gets off to characters in a game, they’ll find some other way to get themselves there. It’s that simple.
But eh, if they want to censor it, they’ll censor it.
I agree that most censorship aren't a big deal, but to some people they just don't like their game to be unfairly different compare to other versions.
Sony can censor anime games whatever they like since PS4 has never been that well in Japan compare to Nintendo Switch whereas PS4 is selling super well in the west, and how most anime games are "niche" as how many will say, so it all makes sense to be honest.
Now... I wanna talk about my own history with MCU movies,
I'm pretty sure about a half of MCU fans (See what I did there?) now, haven't really seen Iron Man in theaters, especially those who are born after the 2000s are highly unlikely to even see the first Avengers movie.
I have never really fond with MCU movies until I saw Iron Man and Captain America on TV. They weren't mindblowning just pretty good superhero movies.
And come to think of it, MCU's first phase actually wasn't really that good until Avengers, heck to most MCU fans it's probably the first MCU movie they have watched in theaters,
Phase two is somewhat on the contrary, most second phase movies were good, but Thor Dark World and Age of Ultron was mostly for MCU follow up.
Phase three nuff said, the best phase so far, only one I consider bad is Captain Marvel...