Feature: Tomodachi Life: Why Nintendo has to change

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Feature: Tomodachi Life: Why Nintendo has to change

Added: 08.05.2014 17:37 | 0 views | 0 comments

Nintendo's refusal to include same-sex relationships in Tomodachi Life has caused a backlash that it should have seen coming.

Feature: Tomodachi Life: Why Nintendo has to change article

"Nintendo never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of 'Tomodachi Life'" read the statement that aimed to clarify matters, presumably written by a PR robot created and controlled via proprietary Nintendo Head-Burying Software. "The relationship options in the game represent a playful alternate world rather than a real-life simulation. We hope that all of our fans will see that 'Tomodachi Life' was intended to be a whimsical and quirky game, and that we were absolutely not trying to provide social commentary."

Inevitably, this did not go down very well,...