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His comments from last week never completely ruled out the possibility of developing for the Wii U.

Hardly a U turn.

@Intrepid You are wrong. Marriage is not solely a religious ceremony.

Yeah I'm not a fan of the decisions Capcom make sometimes.

For me, they still make amazing games. Which is why I buy them.

@Melkaticox I don't understand this comment.

Are you saying that LGBT characters cannot be in games rated E, or they can't be found in games rated E.

You're right dragon, and it's hard to know the facts about a game that has very little information outside of Japan and in English.

We will have to wait for a confirmed response from Nintendo. I don't think it will work in their favour though.

The game was released with this glitch. It should've been tested appropriately. It wasn't.

Nintendo were then faced with two options. Allow the glitch to exist, which allows for same-sex marriage among males and also patch the game to allow females to marry eachother. Or remove the ability for same-sex couples to marry one another.

If they do remove it, it's discrimination. The glitch, and this whole position Nintendo have been placed in could have been avoided.

@sillygostly It was also an option for The Sims back in 2000. Why after 13 years it is being removed from a game (that doesn't look to have any religious influence and therefore no need to oppose same-sex marriage) I have no idea.

But they're offending the same-sex side by not providing the option in the first place. Whether the glitch was intentional or not, the fact that it has been addressed by removing the option to allow for male-male marriage and not include female-female marriage is discrimination.

I'm not accurate on the LGBT tolerance in Japan. A quick wikipedia search tells me that although there are no laws against homosexuality and no legal recognition of same-sex marriage, there is no real hostility to homosexuality.

It doesn't seem like there can't be same-sex relationships within the game itself. The information I've found about this only relates to marriage, and allowing two males to propose, marry, honeymoon. If the option for same-sex relationships without marriage is there, I don't see any good reason why the option for marriage shouldn't be.

If there is no option for same-sex relationships in the first place, then that's wrong.

@XCWarrior same game as the original.

This is roughly the 6th or 7th time they're re-released it.

It was fun... was.

I love how some people are calling Nintendo a family friendly company.

If they remove this 'bug' to cater to families, what about all the families with same-sex parents?

@Joshers744 I would love to know how this makes you want Japan to keep the game.

KickstarterLife?

Frostbite is not Unreal Engine 4, or Crytek engine whatever.

It would be nice if people read the article on the Guardian than basing their thoughts on what NL wrote.

Hey guys, we have another console too. We're still not gonna tell you anything about it, but hey, we told you it's there.

I wonder what a representative of Apple would say about the app store.

Uh-oh.

@Hexonberik Except it meet the required funding.

@Deathgaze Don't think it is.

Also because they have to get yet another rating (which are expensive).

Why would they?

I hope it's through an App. I'd be super sad if it wasn't.

@DePapier They have to port the entire Frostbyte engine to the Wii U.

It's not as easy as you think.

You clearly don't know how the world and timelords work.

It's not really a permadeath game when you respawn at the last checkpoint.

@grimbldoo I'm good thanks.

It's nice to know you think the universe revolves around me.

Why? Because he uses twitter to express his views?

Guess we should forget about everyone on twitter then!

He has a view that's different to yours?

Say goodbye to everyone then!

How is he acting like the face of a multinational corporation?

I tweet. Does that mean I'm an attention seeker?

@Mk_II Except Nintendo (or it's fans) isn't feeding him anything.

No he shouldn't.

@Chunky_Droid I haven't thought about it in depth, (and I'm not sure how much the two are alike), but I imagine it's mostly due to Fez coming to the PS3.

I love how some people think one case of an eShop game outselling an iOS/Android game means the platform is better.

I hope you're joking @kieryh.

The 3DS control wise is even worse when it's compared to the PSP.

The fact that they had to add lock on as a way of fixing the camera controls for the 3DS version only supports this.

@SethNintendo Tomb Raider was announced late 2011, which would mean it was in development for a little while before then.

The Wii U was released late 2012.

It's not lazy development. If Crystal Dynamics wanted to incorporate the gamepad in a way that was deemed innovative (which at the moment seems to be a map or playing the entire game on the gamepad, whoopie!), that wouldn't have been possible.

Because you want proof, even though you yourself can't provide it, I'll prove my point.

"At this time, no. When we started developing the game we made a conscious decision that it was all about building the game for a platform and making sure the game was specific to that platform. Given that we've been working on the game quite a while before Wii U was announced I think it would not be right to try and port it across. If we started building a game for the Wii U we would build it very differently and we would build it with unique functionality."
_{http://au.gamespot.com/news/tomb-raider-skipping-wii-u-6349248} /> _{that was posted on Jan 26, 2012, a year before NintendoLife's article that you mentioned.}

Can you prove it's their sole reasoning that they don't develop for the console because they don't wanna implement the gamepad.

Companies aren't just not releasing games because they "don't know how to use the gamepad."

The Wii U, for some companies, is not profitable to put their game on the system.

@Superjimmy If you're gonna sledge can you at least be creative?

Can we also send the Australian team home if they don't do their homework?

lol people thinking that Monster Hunter will bring in lots of sales.

It won't.

Oh lordy...

When will this Skylanders stuff end?

Actually controls really nicely on the iPhone. I'm sure it's even better on the iPad.

@Azooooz Yes, the Wii U is failing because of the Australian market.

You hit the nail on the head there!

Then. Don't. Read. Them.

So the two screens work with the Pro Controller too?

@Big_L91 They joys of this article is that it makes Sony look like all they've done is take a jab at Nintendo, whilst they've done quite a few jabs over the past few days.

PushSquare has covered a lot of what Sony has done leading up to Wednesday.

The 3DS version didn't have pointer controls, and nobody complained then.

Downloadable titles don't do well on the Xbox Marketplace?

Since when?

Also, it would be nice to have the original source so we can see the quote in context, but whatever.

@Koapa Yup, 5 million sales is poor.