Haha. Animal Crossing now with bonus RACISM

[GilloD]

http://kotaku.com/5101425/nintendo-sends-game-to-journos-with-racial-epitaph-surprise

A copy of DS title Animal Crossing Wild World sent out to media yesterday by Nintendo came loaded with most of the game's secrets unlocked, it also included a nasty surprise.

When you come upon Baabara, the town's resident sheep, you're greeted with a racial epithet. The word is used repeatedly in your conversation with the sheep.

"I almost forgot about you, N—-a" "So got any juicy gossip for me, N—-a?" "Just thinking about it gets me all excited, N—-a."

The word, written with a tilda over the N and an accent over the A, apparently popped up in the game because the person who was playing it, most likely a Nintendo employee, customized the greeting of the critter to include the word. One of the draw's of the original DS title was that the text speech of the game's inhabitants can be customized.

The sheep was first discovered by MTV's Stephen Totilo, who reported on it over on Multiplayer. I was able to track the sheep down on the version sent me by Nintendo and verified that she's just as mouthy in my version.

It appears that Nintendo copied the save for the game to multiple copies of Wild Word and then sent it out to game writers. The copy came with a letter explaining that content had been unlocked so writers could check out how moving stuff from the DS Animal Crossing title to the recently released Wii version worked.

We've contacted Nintendo for comment and will update when they reply.

hahahahahaha 

Someone's gonna get FIIIRRRRREEDDD

[demi]

Suddenly nicca is a slur. Whatever.

[Draft]

Not really bonus racism.

That's actually what I would consider the minimum acceptable amount of racism.

[ManaByte]

Sure it didn't say Naggers?

[ManaByte]

Has N'Gai opened his copy yet? 

[Don Flamenco]

n agga?

[Kestastrophe]

I bet you it was a /b/tard and it said nigra

[y2kev]

Wow 

[Don Flamenco]

what if the guy comes from a country where his name is spelled like that?  Then WE would be the racists! 

[Positive Touch]

I bet you it was a /b/tard and it said nigra

that was the first thing that came to my mind, too

[Joe Molotov]

He's not racist, some of his best friends are niccas.

[ManaByte]

Nintendo blames the Internet:
http://kotaku.com/5101547/nintendo-responds-to-animal-crossing-racial-epithet-issue-blames-internet

"Previously played copies of the 2005 DS game Animal Crossing: Wild World were sent to 14 members of the media to demonstrate the ability of players to transfer items to the new Animal Crossing: City Folk for Wii. We regret that an offensive phrase was included without our knowledge via a wireless function that allows user-generated catchphrases to spread virally from one game to the next. This version is limited to 14 copies created for media review purposes only and is not available at retailers. We sincerely apologize for the incident and are working with media who received the game cards to return them to Nintendo immediately."

[cool breeze]

see, this is why we need friend codes.  so what if the good aspects of online gaming are eliminated, at least the bad will be gone with it.

[Himu]