Does Nintendo hate gay people? - The Tomodachi Life incident

Yet another Nintendo game that doesn't feature same sex relationships.

Once again Nintendo have sparked a lot of contriversy over a game of theirs. And for all the wrong reasons i´m afraid. At first,i didn't understand what all the fuss was all about. Because i just saw something about a boycott against Nintendo of America last night (over Twitter).

But then i read CVG´s article about Tomodachi Life (which are set for a release to 3DS on the 6th of June). And now i´m both sad and angry over the whole thing. I don´t know if Nintendo realized this but it´s the year 2014 now.

It´s NOT the 40 or 50s anymore. And obviously they (Nintendo) haven't noticed same sex titles such as the Mass Effect series, The Sims or the Last of Us. It´s both embarrassing and shocking that Nintendo would do something like this.

But then again, Nintendo have done similar things in the past (with other titles). So i really hope that Nintendo will fix this and apologize for their ignorance towards the gay community. Because in my world, everyone should be able to play and enjoy their video games.

No matter if their gay or straight.

"Nintendo never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of Tomodachi Life," Nintendo of America said in a statement provided to the Associated Press.

"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." - Nintendo of America

"You import your personalized characters into the game," Marini said. "You name them. You give them a personality. You give them a voice. They just can't fall in love if they're gay."

"We're using this as an opportunity to better understand our consumers and their expectations of us at all levels of the organization," a Nintendo representative said.

"We have been looking to broaden our approach to development whenever possible as we put all our energy into continuing to develop fun games that will surprise and delight players." - Tye Marini, a Nintendo fan 

Source:
CVG