If it wasn't done on pr reasons, then the whole thing is a case of "unfortunate implication". People wouldn't have no problem if there wasn't that controversy that involved people thinking Mario wearing a sombrero racist. "If they are not doing anything to avoid that kind of bad press, is that not evidence that they are not all that concerned about it?Īs I mention above, was the box art change was coincidental, or done for pr reason? The problem with the whole thing is Nintendo change the sombrero wearing Mario image with another image. that is all it supposedly takes to make a billion-dollar global corporation quake in its boots?īy the standards of most Nintendo-related 'scandals' where you have tens of thousands of people doing things, that seems pretty weak. a person complaining about a few dumbasses on Twitter, two very-moronic tweets (one of which says later that he was being sarcastic), and a deluge of people calling those tweets stupid.Īnd. Okay, so the extent of the controversy is. "For for some example of the whole controversy look at this video that explain the whole controversy." I am not really certain I follow why anyone thinks Nintendo is more afraid of the smaller, less vocal, less organized group. For starters, there appear to be substantially more people in the first two groups, and they appear they have the sort of thing I asked for, like hashtags, petitions, actual calls for boycotts, and mass group dislikes for videos on Youtube. "And there's different situations with Mother 3 and FF compared to Odyssey, and different group of people that are involved with those games." If they are not doing anything to avoid that kind of bad press, is that not evidence that they are not all that concerned about it? "Of course changing the box art would not avoid any kind of bad of press." (luckly alot of people actucally called bullcrap on this person) And guest which group haveįor for some example of the whole controversy look at this video that explain the whole controversy.Īnd here's a screen shot of the tweet that started the whole thing. Even though the very people they think they're defending don't even think Mario wearing a sombrero is offensive. And the people who where complaining about sombrero wearing Mario in Odyssey are social justice obsessed busy bodies who takes it upon themselves to be offended for the very people they think they're standing up for.
And the people who were complaining about FF were really desperate Metroid fans who been lusting for a new traditional Metroid games for years after the disaster of Other M, and fearing that the series might be on death's door. Unlike Odyssey, Mother 3 had no controversy that people accuse it for being racist.
The people who were spamming social media about the localization of Mother 3 were Mother fans who's desperately wants the game to finally came to the west. You can say the whole thing may be a case of "Unfortunate Implications"Īnd there's different situations with Mother 3 and FF compared to Odyssey, and different group of people that are involved with those games. And the box art change and the controversy that happen before awhile back raise some suspicions.
That's why I ask if the change was a coincidence, or done on for PR reasons. And not changing the content in the game does but the box art does not mean that Nintendo had been paying attention to these people. And those kind of people are the type that will never be please. Especially the type people who complain about whole thing in the first place. It won't make people forget about the controversy. Of course changing the box art would not avoid any kind of bad of press. So your working hypothesis is that companies will make complete redesigns to in-progress boxart just because, but a slight tweak can only ever be attributed to fan outcry on Tumbler or w/ever? "except the last one which is a complete redesign" Clearly, this must be because of all the letters they must have gotten about spaceman culture being offensively appropriated. Oh no, Activision took the astronaut from the WIP cover and put him in tact gear in the final boxart.
That companies make silly and pointless changes to boxart all the time for all sorts of reasons without it automatically being the result of a PC conspiracy, lol. Or do you think they slightly zoomed-in the picture here because they were surrendering to the complaints of a bunch of irate near-sighted Americans? Regional changes where they changed a part of a game's cover art, only one specific part, modified simply because it wouldn't be interesting enough to the people in the territory.