Nintendo responds to fan-made 'Tomodachi Life' gay marriage petition

Earlier this year, a Nintendo fan penned a petition to the video game company to allow for same-sex coupling in the new game Tomodachi Life. This game allows players to start relationships and/or hang out in an alternate universe of gameplay using Mii characters for the 3DS and Wii U. Unfortunately same-sex couples were not included and Nintendo this week has responded to the petition.

"I want to be able to marry my real-life fiancé's Mii, but I can't do that," Tye Marini said in a video posted with the petition to include same-sex coupling in the game. "My only options are to marry some female Mii, to change the gender of either my Mii or my fiancé's Mii or to completely avoid marriage altogether and miss out on the exclusive content that comes with it."

So how did Nintendo react? Well, not so great.

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

The statement continued: "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."

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