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Nintendo: Same-sex relationships don’t belong in Tomodachi Life’s “whimsical and quirky” world

Nintendo has responded to the #Miiequality campaign that sought to introduce same-sex relationships into Tomodachi Life, saying the game will remain heterosexually focused.

“Nintendo never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of Tomodachi Life,” a Nintendo of America representative said to the AP. “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.”

Same-sex relationships were briefly available in Tomodachi Collection: New Life, but were quickly classified as a bug, then patched, by Nintendo.

Tomodachi Life marks the first time the popular simulation franchise will be available in the west. It’s available in June on 3DS.

Update: Nintendo’s Bill Trinen said that the Tomodachi Collection “bug” wasn’t a bug at all, but a manipulation of the game. “Essentially [players] would create a male version of a Mii character and assign their gender as female, and that was how the two males were able to have a baby,” Trinen said. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that Nintendo was quick to pounce upon male-on-male relationships and work to remove them from the game.


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