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"Nintendo never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of 'Tomodachi Life,'" Nintendo of America Inc. said in a statement. "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."

In their official release on why their new game 'Tomodachi Life" will not support same sex marriage. A 'playful' 'whimsical' 'quirky' world that's not a 'real-life simulation' seems like the perfect world where anyone can love and marry whomever they want.

"The ability for same-sex relationships to occur in the game was not part of the original game that launched in Japan, and that game is made up of the same code that was used to localize it for other regions outside of Japan," Nintendo noted in an emailed statement.

Then just say that, apologize for not being inclusive and move on. Don't wrap it up into a burrito of excuses based around 'not trying to provide social commentary' because your choice of exclusion is social commentary.

@salarn: It's certainly an interesting topic, but the response is actually already being discussed in the original Miiquality thread here: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic-31/miiquality-a-movement-for-same-sex-ships-in-tomoda-1482734/#100

Ah, that thread was not attached to the game and I missed it.

@salarn: No problem. It's tougher while search is still down, as well.

Yeah, I super duper tried to link the thread to the game, but that feature hasn't worked for months.

Locking this thread. I moved the other one to the Tomodachi Life forum to clear up confusion. It's a pain in the ass for us to move threads right now, but it can be done.