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.”Īccording to Nintendo, more than 1.83 million copies of Tomodachi Life have been sold in Japan, where same-sex marriage is illegal. The relationship options in the game represent a playful alternate world rather than a real-life simulation.
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Update on 5-12-2014 by Jeffrey Van Camp: According to WSJ, Nintendo has issued a statement apologizing “for disappointing many people by failing to include same-sex relationships in Tomodachi Life.” The current game cannot be altered because it’s already out, but it claims future Tomodachi games will be more inclusive.īefore the media frenzy got out of control, Nintendo of America issued this statement: “Nintendo never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of Tomodachi Life. “My only options are to marry some female Mii, to change the gender of either my Mii or my fiancé’s Mii or to completely avoid marriage altogether and miss out on the exclusive content that comes with it.”
“I want to be able to marry my real-life fiancé’s Mii, but I can’t do that,” said the campaign’s creator, Tye Marini, in a video he posted online to explain why he launched the “Miiquality” campaign. In response to a campaign pushing Nintendo to allow same-sex marriages in To modachi Life - which lets players’ digital “Mii” avatars interact with each other, shop, and even marry other players’ avatars - the Japanese company said it can’t change the game to allow same-sex relationships between Miis. Now, a new controversy could derail the game’s reception. Fitbit Versa 3Īfter reporting a $457 million loss last fiscal year, Nintendo predicted that the upcoming, English-language release of its life-simulator game Tomodachi Life would help the company turn things around this year.
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