With the exception of the Grand Theft Auto series it seems that usually whatever game is raising the most hackles is generally pretty poorly made. Manhunt 2 stirred whole anthills of controversy before it was released followed by a poor performance in terms of both sales and critical acclaim. Most recently Hindus took offense to Hanuman: Boy Warrior, the first game developed entirely by an Indian studio. In it you control Hanuman, one of the deities of the Hindu religion.

As you might imagine Hindu leaders weren’t happy about this and after voicing their displeasure to the folks at Sony sought to get the game recalled from shelves. Sony of course wasn’t interested in recalling a game aimed at a single market because a subsection of people in that market objected to it. Sony finally made it clear to the Hindu leaders that they really had no desire to comply with their demands.

The Hindu leaders have called for a worldwide boycott of Sony products as they had threatened to previously. The overall impact of such a boycott is unknown and it could potentially be terrible given the large Indian market. Yet I somehow doubt that it will be more than a blip on the radar, since there’s probably not much overlap between conservative Hindus and gamers.