To be very honest i can't see what the big deal is. Nintendo is a conservative company and has an image of being "family-friendly". Unfortunately, there are still many conservative/religious groups who do not accept same-sex relationships. I think Nintendo is just trying to stick to its family-friendly roots and avoid controversy. I mean, if the game had same-sex relationships, the backlash would be even bigger, especially considering the fact that Nintendo is seen as a company that makes games for kids.

Let's be realistic here, Nintendo is a company. As such, they just want to have profit, not to change the world. Can't blame them for that. Having same-sex relationships in a non-mature game could hurt sales for a company that keeps pushing its "family-friendly" image.

I can't see how not having the option of same-sex relationships is offensive or anything. I mean, it's just a game. It was just a choice Nintendo made to avoid controversy. It's not prejudice or anything, it's just that Nintendo doesn't want to engage in a "war" against the vocal conservative/religious groups. I don't know how the distribution in other countries is, but here in Brazil the religious groups are the majority.

The Mass Effect games, for example, did get banned in a few asian countries because of same sex relationships.

Don't get me wrong, i'm a big defender of LGBT rights (even though i'm straight). But i really don't see the big deal in this case. What i see is a company affraid of a backlash.


Do you always have to insult people you do not agree with? It's not the first time i see aggressive posts from you full of personal insults. Maybe you would be taken more seriously if you could discuss things in a civil and rational way.

You know - Them. Those who are different and thus are not quite human. Who act and think all the same, and who are out to destroy the lives of normal people.

Yes, I'm talking about the giant radioactive ants. But sadly some others aren't.

After living in Missouri for 30 years you think I'd be used to it, but it still hurts.

I suspect Nargles are behind it.

It has benefited Nintendo when fundamentalist christian groups have viewed them as “safer” than their competition. I remember reading about them removing references to homosexuality in localizing their own games or asking others to make similar changes before giving approval to publish games for their hardware. However, this was some time ago and Nintendo seems to have been paying far less attention to foreign markets recently so I’m more hesitant than usual to say this was an intentional.

Regardless of their intentions while overseeing the development of Tomodachi Life, they probably wont want to do anything if they feel bigoted groups will respond in manner that will be more damaging to profits.

Some things we should not become inured to.

I think i won't buy a game, which promotes homosexualism, or has elements of homosexualism.
I do not want my money went in *that* direction, do not want to promote homosexualism with my money.
They should ask government for money. US government wants to control population. I don't want to.
Even if you don't care about homosexualism, when you buy a game which has homosexualism, you pay for content in which you are not interested - you pay for nothing, for content which is not suitable for you. It's like heterosexual buying porn, half of which is homosexual porn - this is ridiculous. But in some games nowadays it's, kind of, "okay".
Embarrassing. Games are instruments of propaganda. This sucks.
Bioware and Electronic Arts, may you burn in Hell.

Another tiny deviant minority 'offended'? Who cares.

On the other hand, buying to kill tons of people, to promote violence and genocide, reckless behaviour, guns, prostitution, that's all fine of course.

What a load of crock. I doubt you even think twice about what "direction" you have your money go into when buying those kind of games. But heaven forbid two same sex characters can bond.

This says more about you than anything else tbh.


That said though, I don't think a company deserves "backlash" for not having the option there though.

The backlash aside, I find it strange, I thought homosexualism was more commonly accepted in Japan than in western societies.

That's an odd way of looking at it.

I don't think I've ever played a single game that didn't have SOMETHING in it that I had no interest in. If you want a game that only has things you're interested in then the only game you could ever be happy with is one you'd make yourself.

Nintendo, particularly Nintendo of America, have always tiptoed around Christian conservatives here in the US. I remember back in the 80s when Japanese NES games were brought over here, they were scrubbed of any religious symbolism that might be deemed offensive.

Pretty much this.

I don't even have a 3DS for the matter, but I certainly wouldn't be comfortable buying games that treat people different because of their sexual orientation. I don't like that.

And I certainly would pay for heterosexual porn with homosexual porn if I think it's worth my money and if I just can skip to the part I'm interested in, which I think would be the most accurate analogy that comes to my mind regarding the topic on Tomodachi Life. I guess.

But I agree with you, Electronic Arts definetely deserves to burn in Hell lol

I am against mandating that a game company allow ANYTHING in a game that they develop or distribute. I think that the governments in the world get their noses into way too many things as is. So the people are right to complain if they want a developer/distributor/whoever to add content that they want. That said the vocal minority almost always seems to get what they want, you know.