hi reggie remember that time you decided that relationships in tomodachi life should be hetero only and declined to change it when you got blowback for it? just letting you know that “marriage is for straights only and this mii representation of you yourself the player can only be hetero, other options don’t exist” is a very political statement, reggie.

reggie makes all of the video games at nintendo by himself yeah

it’s him, it’s Reggie Nintendo

Oh my god, I hate having to tell people about the Tomodachi Life thing. No, the Japanese version of Tomodachi Life did not have gay relationships. It was one part Japanese players dressing their miis to look like the opposite gender then having those miis get in relationships to give the appearance of same sex relationships, then these got picked up by western sites who mistranslated these screencaps.

The other reason was because of a game breaking bug. In Japan there was a previous Tomodachi game on the original DS that we didn’t get. Players were able to transfer miis from the old game into the new game, as well as miis from the Wii, but there was a data glitch that fucked with the game’s data when these miis were imported that caused different shit to happen, one of these was placing new miis into preexisting relationships, some of these miis being same sex. The glitch was game breaking, though, and could absolutely ruin your save data.

This glitch had to be patched out, but western news sites mistranslated the whole ordeal, reporting that Nintendo removed same sex relationships from the game. This pissed off a lot of people, and Nintendo tried to clarify the whole thing, but it was too late. At that point, people wanted Nintendo to put this feature into the game, but Nintendo basically said that because it wasn’t in the game originally, and that the game was about to be released, that it would be unfeasible to add it in. They did say they would consider it for the next Tomodachi game, but people aren’t happy with that.

Tl;Dr: They didn’t take same sex relationships out out of malice but because it was the effect of a game breaking glitch. They didn’t include it after fan outcry because the game was about to be shipped out, and it would be way too much to change it at that point.

You would think in the year of our lord 2017, journalists with tons of resources and connections could translate between two of the most commonly spoken languages in geekdom (America, The UK, and Japan producing 90% of major, internationally released media at this point)

>Expecting Game Journalists to put in any effort into being truthful when they can just bullshit for easy clicks