VioNtendo has put s foot down. There will be no gay marriage Tomodachi Life, spe social media mpaigns favor. The pany rpond to the current ntroversy wh a fairly straightforward statement. "Ntendo never tend to make any form of social mentary wh the lnch of 'Tomodachi Life,'" It said. [...]
Contents:
- NTENDO APOLOGIZ FOR OMTG GAY MARRIAGE FROM 'TOMODACHI LIFE'
- NTENDO'S REJECTN OF GAY RELATNSHIPS GIV FANS A LOT TO BE ANGRY ABOUT
- LOOKS LIKE THERE’S GAY MARRIAGE TOMODACHI LIFE AFTER ALL
- NTENDO PROMIS GAY UPL TOMODACHI LIFE SEQUEL
- THE BIGGT REASON NTENDO SHOULD ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IN TOMODACHI LIFE
NTENDO APOLOGIZ FOR OMTG GAY MARRIAGE FROM 'TOMODACHI LIFE'
The vio game pany hts that may allow for gay relatnships future versns of “Tomodachi Life." * gay tomodachi life *
They jt n't fall love if they're gay.
NTENDO'S REJECTN OF GAY RELATNSHIPS GIV FANS A LOT TO BE ANGRY ABOUT
<b>Yannick LeJacq:</b> Ntendo of Ameri will not allow gay relatnships Tomodachi Life, and their logic jt don't add up * gay tomodachi life *
Ntendo hted Friday that may allow for gay relatnships future versns of s “Tomodachi Life” vio world’s largt vio game pany has been the target of cricism om gay-rights gamers who plaed that characters aren’t allowed to have same-sex relatnships English edns of the life-simulator game. ”A gay Arizona man, Tye Mari, took to social media last month urgg Ntendo to add same-sex relatnship optns to English versns of the handheld Ntendo 3DS game. "Ntendo has said that the abily for same-sex relatnships to occur was not part of the origal game that lnched Japan, where gay marriage is not legal.
Even as the pany ntu to flounr s current state of fancial secury, much of the cricism om fans, tractors and dtry analysts is livered as if om a ncerned iend, rather than a dispassnate changed on Wednday, when Ntendo of Ameri (NOA) rpond to a social media mpaign askg the pany to allow players to enter to gay relatnships s game Tomodachi Life wh a flat nial issued to the Associated pany "never tend to make any form of social mentary wh the lnch of Tomodachi Life", the statement reasoned. 'Your life', but not if you're gay.
LOOKS LIKE THERE’S GAY MARRIAGE TOMODACHI LIFE AFTER ALL
So I jt posted that Ntendo's quirky life simulator, Tomodachi Life, is fally out. I also mentned s unfortunate circumstance of not cludg gay marriage, which cuts out a big populatn of gamers, feelg like they n't fully reprent themselv the game. However! Low a ... * gay tomodachi life *
But if you make a game that's meant to simulate life – even a "whimsil and quirky versn" of life – and then tell a portn of your players that they're simply not allowed to make an thentic simulatn of their liv, somethg isn't addg the weirst part of Ntendo's jtifitn for effectively banng gay marriage the prec ltle virtual universe of Tomodachi Life is yet to e. But part of what they loved about , acrdg to a report by my Kotaku lleague Brian Ashcraft, is that there was ially a bug the software that allowed players to dulge gay relatnships – or at least male on.
NTENDO PROMIS GAY UPL TOMODACHI LIFE SEQUEL
UPDATE: New game Tomodachi Life will not have a patch to allow for gay relatnships but s sequel will be more clive. * gay tomodachi life *
Japane players were "thrilled by the bug, postg photos of their gay upl onle". And given s tight-lipped reputatn, the clost we may ever get to hearg anyone om Ntendo speak ndidly about LGBT reprentatn is this week's opaque ncln that is g s sudn anti-gay marriage stance as "an opportuny to better unrstand [s] nsumers and their expectatns" and is "lookg to broan [s] approach to velopment whenever possible" Ntendo – the world's largt vio game pany by revenue – really never thk about the sexual inty of s ctomers before 2014? Whenever the vio game dtry do ask self why ntu to drag s feet on troducg gay characters, however, the answers aren't enuragg.
THE BIGGT REASON NTENDO SHOULD ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IN TOMODACHI LIFE
Earlier this year, Assass's Creed veloper Ubisoft let one of s openly gay wrers expla that even he uld not wre a queer protagonist to his own work "bee of fears that 'll impact sal"'s hard to accept that logic sce 's rarely backed up (at least openly) wh actual data. The same day that Ntendo explaed why didn't feel the need to clu gay marriage s popular sim game, the pany also reported that s earngs for the 2013 fisl year were even lower than the level had pre-emptively lowered them to back January.
And the 3DS, that beloved mobile system on which Tomodachi Life will soon appear for gay and straight gamers alike Ameri, isn't dog so hot eher.