It's official - Steve's win screen in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been slightly adjusted as of update 9.0.1.
Last week, the internet couldn't help but notice how the Minecraft character's steak looked like something else...and well, it seems Nintendo has decided to adjust this animation in the latest patch.
Steve now gobbles up this tasty piece of meat until it's out of sight. Here's a before and after shot:
What are your thoughts about this? Has Nintendo gone too far or was it a necessary change? Vote in our poll and tell us below.
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First. JK. But yeah, it was probably for the best that they changed this. I think Mario Kart 8 Deluxe did something similar at one point.
huh i guess it was a big enough deal for them to remove it, i didnt notice it being an innuendo until people pointed it out. at least it still makes sense for the steak to disappear after eating it
Honestly, this is more accurate to the actual game than the old screen.
Did they really need to? I don't think this was offending anybody.
Smash team seems to be very scared of anyone making any lewd connections. First they nerfed ZSS body, then cut the Tharja trophy, then snakes badonkadonk, then edited Mythra and Pyra spirits, then purposefully didn't include Mai as a Spirit, and now this
@SilverdudeOmni Yeah it was one of the Splatoon characters victory pose. Supposedly in some countries the gesture is considered vulgar so they changed it.
The fact that they actually updated the game to specifically change this screen after people couldn't keep their minds out of the gutter will never not be funny to me.
Thankfully Bayonetta hasn’t been censored... for now.
@PBandSmelly This is the worst timeline.
@Tasuki It was an arm pump motion that's considered an "up yours" in most regions but is a harmless gesture in Japanese culture. Same thing happened with Bowser's victory pose in Super Mario RPG.
Hold up... so my comment gets removed even though it was a play on words and you write two entire articles “tiptoeing” around what you and everyone else in the internet blatantly thinks the meat is as Steve’s penis, and you can’t accept what I wrote, even though I didn’t use ANY profanity or ANY derogatory statements?
Who is the person who deleted it, and why?
Wait, but where did Steve's Meat go?
Did someone eat it? Did they enjoy it?
Did it need to be cut off so he wouldn't [redacted] Alex?
Is this comment going to get deleted--yes.
Nobody cares, lol.
Steve is a wasted character slot in a long line of absolutely pathetic choices.
@OstianOwl I remember now the change to Bowser in Super Mario RPG. Wasn't sure the whole reason for Splatoon kid as I didn't get the game till after the patch.
@SilverdudeOmni I don't ever remember a time when there were d**** in mario kart 8. You've peaked my interest lol
@OctoAori20 let's recap: 4 phenomenons/characters that shaped the industry, one oddly well done character that surprised the hell out of me with how well it fit into the game, and 2 questionable albeit reasonable choices as nintendo wanted to promote two of its first party games. The good news is these games are great and are good enough to warrant characters why are you complaining? It's like no one cares that your gonna cry in your bed hugging your anime body pillow because the virgin within you can't take not getting something to your absolute and utter wishes so you take to the internet and complain that "nintendo sucks" when all that sucks is the fact that you complain about a video game that isnt doing everything according to some random persons every desire.
@Ghostchip
By similar, they meant just a slight animation change in general. In Mario Kart 8, one of Inkling's poses was a clenched fist with a smile, which is deemed the equivalent to the middle finger in some regions.
This is so random
Why do people keep reffering to him as Minecraft Steve? Its just Steve!
Kinda like saying Starfox Fox or Metroid Samus.
Smash is for good boys and girls!
Seriously? No one thought it looked like a “thing” except for a bunch of Twitter users. This is a completely unnecessary change.
@HotGoomba LOL,. WOW so it happen, they did it, I was going to make a joke but that would be a turn off They are soo going to delete my comment or maybe they will be happy to see me. YAAAA to jokes in a row....My comment is soo going bye bye.
@HotGoomba I find it funny that they would delete your comment even tho they had a hole artical about that nfw peach fangame.
@Tasuki I think it was the same reason.
LOL Sakuri knew what he was doing with that..
😂😂 The fact that this was even an issue....smh
Honestly, this change makes that victory pose much more accurate to the source now, when you eat a steak in Minecraft it disappears so it makes less sense to not change it. Who knows, maybe that was the actual reason why it got changed and the inappropriate joke may have just been the tip of the iceberg.
@OctoAori20 we get it bro, you want attention.
@Zach777 I'm willing to bet the person who deleted it had a bad day and wanted to take it out on deleting others comments lol
@Arkay Probably to help specify who he is. Steve is a bland and common name. (Sorry to the Steves out there!) I do think it's unnecessary in this context though because no other character in Smash goes by the name of Steve, unless there is a spirit with the same name.
Also, people can say Fox McCloud and Samus Aran to specify when they are talking about those characters. If Steve had a last name people wouldn't need to specify that they're talking about Steve from Minecraft.
Jeffrey Toobin is disappointed.
@PBandSmelly
Actually only Mythra's spirit was changed. Pyra was not.
Tbh the meat looks kinda weird and out of place anyway
I didn't feel weird about this win screen until I read this article. But here is a thing. Why is Nintendo always trying to censor objects that aren't even referencing adult content? They have gone TOO far!
Biggest censorship scandal of the year.
I thought I was the only one that noticed this... I knew I should’ve screencapped when I had the chance.
@PBandSmelly People don't talk enough about it but I think it's interesting that the "smash for casuals" and the one that's on the console mostly associated with a family-friendly image, is the one with boob-pocket Samus, Snake's defined-as, Peach's up-skirt shots, and I guess Sonic's you're too slow line??
@AxeltheBuizel That's what she said 😂😂😂
That's Steve's 3rd leg.
I think their hand was forced by the internet's collectively dirty mind lol.
Skin tone-wise it didn't even look like it was HIS meat but that he was about to enjoy someone else's.
Took some time to eat all those meat pixels lol.
At least he was eating the meat, not beating it
@echoplex It looked like he'd been chugging it all day and made it red raw.
@PBandSmelly they changed ZSS's body? When? And a Tharja trophy was removed from Smash 4?
@Arkay I totally get your point, but I must admit that if I read "Steve" without any mention to Minecraft or an image of it, I would have no idea who they were talking about. But well maybe due to your comment this will change hahahaha
@Lugazz
They nerfed ZSS from smash 4 to ultimate when you compare the two, but not by a super noticable margin. And yeah actually, a Tharja trophy was cut from smash 3DS. An ESRB employee leaked pictures of the game early, revealing Shulk, Dr. Mario, Bowser Jr, and Duck Hunt early. It was also their job to scout out any potentially risqué content, and among those was an image of a Tharja trophy not seen in the final game.
Twitter is where good things go to die.
@PBandSmelly Had no idea about the Tharja trophy. That's a shame, I enjoyed her character in FE Awakening (I guess I even had my avatar marry her hahahahaha)
About ZSS, the big difference is her chest, but it seems to me they "upgraded" the lower part of her body model. I prefer Ultimate's version, actually
Honestly, it was probably a bug in the first place that the meat graphic wasn't removed after the eating animation.
Political correctness gone mad I tells ya! Joking, this is for the best.
I think you have to go back to the route cause... did a developer put this in deliberately to be crude? Undoubtedly yes.
I agree with the general consensus that it's not actually crude, perhaps immature at worst (a pick axe handle at best!) but it's the intention that's the problem here.
Games industry has a bad rep for this kind of thing, and whoever put this in is undoubtedly part of the problem.
And before I get lynched... just to point out there are dozens of other clever, witty, and appropriate funny things they could have done here instead (and would still be there for us to laugh at!) but they chose this... says all I need to know about the dev.
@Goat_FromBOTW
Are you sure, it seems to me that people get offended by everything nowadays.
I don't see why that was necessary, it was just showing Steve's mea---
... Oooh
They neutered him like a dog!
Do you remember they also censored Game and Watch in Smash because he originally had an animation showing a stereotypical ‘red Indian’ and was a bit culturally insensitive.
@tobsesta99 It's unfortunate but the reality is whatever "Twitter" says controls the swing of things. Even if it's not a majority.
AAaaand this is why I don't buy digital games with constant updates.
@Silly_G Like my account... Just because I QUOTED some idiot's death wish on a political figure of which I will not name. Some person said they didn't see any, so I went and quoted one I found. Got suspended soon after... Appealed twice. Ignored both times.
@AlienX Brawl was from a different time... When Iwata was alive and well.
Why would people thing he is EATING HIS NO NO SQUARE?!? Or in this case steak but you know what I mean! This is a good change. It makes smash for good boys and girls again. But the interenet needs to take off the p*rn filter when looking at everything
@AlienX what does “boob pocketed” even mean?
@Arkay My favorite is Mario Luigi.
No waving of meat just gobbling it.
It's because you all can't control yourself and the moment it happened there was a billion meat innuendo jokes and puns online. No one could take the puns anymore at Nintendo.
Well that was quick lol
Okay, this actually got a chuckle out of me. Changing something in a children's game because of adults' dirty minds is pretty funny.
@Goat_FromBOTW : the tabloid and shock news would’ve picked up on this and would’ve run stories about how Nintendo corrupted their children and to ban this game from being played, etc etc.
The daily mail and fox would’ve had a field day, it’d be Netflix all over again (while the daily mail ignore their hypocrisy while running stories about 13 year olds “filling out” their swimsuits - this happened!)
I'm not a fan of Minecraft or meat so this makes very little difference to me personally, but the edit is pretty stupid. Everyone who plays the game knows that he's holding food, not his privates. This is just another case of hypersensitivity.
@Tourtus that makes perfect sense actually. But still, I think everyone knows where Steve is from at this point .😂
Where is "I don't give a f****!" ?
They should have changed the final smash one. Having him pop up like that all staring at the camera; instead of saying "badass" (the start of it kind of is), your left saying "that was kinda dumb".
@GannonBanned it's a common trope, when a (usually female) character wears normal clothes and the chest is "perfectly fitted" whether it's realistic or not.
For some real world examples lookup Seven of Nine. For some anime examples lookup Cecily Campbell for chainmail, Misaki Shokuhou for regular clothing looking like spray paint, and uh, Brawl ZSS of course.
Not to be confused with another trope; when female characters use their breasts as a pocket.
@AlienX ahhh the like bizarrely spandexed shirt that goes up under the boobs - gotcha.
I used to work at Vans in marketing and the models would use a rubber band or a hair scrunchie on their back to suck tight the shirts around the ribs to appear that way.
So weird and no need for fake people to have it either
@Goat_FromBOTW What you just said has two different meanings, but yes.
@PBandSmelly #bringbackstevesmeat and #iwantthiccsnake
@OctoAori20 pfftt
@Arkay I've never played minecraft, nor do I intend to, if they just said Steve I'd have no idea who they were on about, Steve unlike Fox and Samus is a very common name
@GannonBanned It is kind of odd that a lack of realism in this particular department is some huge problem to you, in games that are far removed from being realistic in first place
Like me saying I hate games or movies having plot armour, why not kill everyone in the first 5 minutes?! A characters design in a video game doesnt need to be realistic, nor should artists have to worry about public opinion of their art
@boxyguy - Honestly, this is the best defense to change it. Eating something makes it go away, it also happens when you east it in the actual game.
Not keen on changing things due to someone somewhere may see it as something else sometime, but this isn't a hill I'd die on.
@AmethystLeslie How, when you can hold meat in stacks in Minecraft?
@HotGoomba Why hasn't it been yeeted yet?
@Doktor-Mandrake I don’t know how we go from “I have no clue to what this is” to it being “a huge problem” - if anyone seems to be worked up about it, it’s Dr. ManDrake
@GannonBanned Yet nowhere in your post does it even say "I have no clue what this is".
And it's not like you elaborated after my post, instead of addressing what I said you resort to using a "I know you are but what am I" remark.
@Doktor-Mandrake my first post about it says:
“what does boob pocketed even mean?”
which is how I’m showing I don’t know what it is.
Then I say “oh” and add in an anecdote from my life.
Then you refer to is as me having a “huge” problem and defend art as a whole against some assault I’m not even making.
I’m just really confused and I don’t know what kind of antagonism you’re perceiving, just seems really bizarrely reactionary and like you’re chasing some low hanging fruit.
(Shrug) have a good one, I reckon. Maybe take a couple days off reading comments about boobs so you can relax.
@GannonBanned Didnt talk about your last paragraph about models being weird for wanting to have clothes tighter to their body
Must be willful ignorance, you dont need to be heterosexual to see why they do it dummy
I honestly liked how Steve kept his meat out. People we're just way too inappropriate and that's why Sakurai took out Steve's meat. People we're just being inappropriate and most people, including myself, didn't really find it as an issue.
Who"s meat is on the chopping block?
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