As much as Nintendo has changed and warped since the success of the Wii, it's nice to know that the company hasn't abandoned all of its old sensibilities. Like its complete fear of violence and love of bizarre censorship. Did you know that plastic gun peripherals for the Wii aren't allowed to be called guns? This is by royal decree of Nintendo, and even evil publisher Activision has to obey.
Activision's Jeff Muench told Game Informer how a series of "obscure Nintendo regulations" affected the gun peripherals for Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2010. They look like shotguns (albeit citrus-flavored ones), but boy, they ain't shotguns. Activision was forced to call them "firearms," because I guess simply uttering the word "gun" will cause all the children in the world to shoot their mothers.
Shoot and kill whatever you want, kids. Just don't say any bad words while you're doing it!
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10:00 AM on 09.11.2009
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Whenever I hear firearm I think of something a lot larger then a hand gun.
Took the words outta my mouth.
We should make it into a game where everyone takes turns lighting their arm and fire and writing notes to Nintendo on why censoring doesn't work when you take a word that sounds pretty boring and replace it with something as badass as FIREARM!
That's not a dodge on Sega's part, for them in the attitude full megadrive/genesis days gun was not menacing enough.
@ GoldenGamerXero
In my head I now hear the voice of a fighting game character's move being spamed over and over. FI-YA..AAAARMM, FI-YA..AAAARMM, FI-YA..AAAARMM.
B> Nintendo Kill-Sat attachment for the Wii Remote.
what's next is calling the night day.
censorship has been censored, but for who's sake?
i'll tell you but it'll be changed and not a minute too late.
Stop it! You're just making FIREARM sound more awesome!
AM I DOING IT RIGHT?
So a wild beast is the same as a human being? Is that what your saying?
Listen, when deer, bears and boars can start making a game where they hunt humans, I will call them equals.
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Anyways, in regards to this being a "firearm" rather then "gun", many companies have this policy. I use to help manage a laser-tag (Q-Zar) joint in the late 90s and we had to call them "phasers" and not guns, for probably the same reason Nintendo is using.
We all know there are crazy religious zealots and other unhinged people out there. Simply removing the term gun can help negate their complaints. I am sure Nintendo has had enough crap from them as well.
Those ain't no guns!!
A case for my wii mote! It looks like a gun but it is called a:
Bullet shooting machine!
At least they weren't forced to call them "BIG ORANGE ZAPPER OF DEATH" but that actually might have been cooler.
This is nothing new, after all even the first incarnation of the nintendo lightgun was referred to as a light "blaster"