Dear Nintendo of America,
Today when I did your survey, you asked a question about what would make me the most interested in reading and sharing gaming news on twitter. This is the answer I’ve given you:
The thing that makes me interested in reading and sharing anything gaming related on -any- platform is reading objective and informative journalism. Recently there has been a big stink caused by both large and small gaming companies and journalism outlets with a sustained campaign of collusion and cronyism for profit. Inserting feminism and gender politics into news articles and games, promoting pretentious art games through nepotism and pretending they’re journalism doesn’t interest me as a gamer no matter how much they say it should.
As a gamer I want to know whether a product I want to invest my time and money in is worth it. I’m not interested whether something should be politically correct and should be as sterile and inoffensive as possible to keep over-sensitive imbeciles happy, because god forbid I can’t enjoy a game like Bayonetta where the character you play may upset feminist ideologues. It seems to me that if a feminist can’t be an attractive, confident and witty character like Bayonetta, then nobody else can enjoy it. Remember the stink that Tomodachi Life caused when it was revealed that same sex couples weren’t a thing? The premise of the game is to populate the island with children the mii’s make, not to accurately depict different lifestyles. Imagine if they presented more hyperbole like the game not recognizing religions like Hinduism because all the Mii’s can eat beef. Obviously you don’t HAVE to feed the Mii’s everything, so bringing that up sounds ridiculous. But that’s what happens when you have journalist outlets that value sensationalist clickbait rubbish over factual coverage.
While I’m here I would very much like it if you stopped pandering to SJW’s. If your PR department looked at everything “gamers” are discussing on their tumblr pages, you’ll find out they try to look for excuses to be offended. If you continue to listen to these people then your company’s quality of content will suffer heavily for it. I’m not saying you should ignore people and make offensive games, just make the games you have been making since the early eighties. I have been a faithful customer since ‘94 when my dad bought me a Super Nintendo and have enjoyed franchises like Mario, F-Zero, Legend of Zelda, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Mother and Star Fox (Starwing for me because I’m British). And I would really hate to see a legendary company be brought to it’s knees by people that a) aren’t your core audience b) in love with their own anger and c) look for even the tiniest excuses to get offended.
Oh, I had to put a meme in there somewhere so ok here
There you go…
- Druss