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the_dengle on 16 June 2017
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wombat123 said:
the_dengle said:
I would say that Splatoon, Pikmin, and Xenoblade X for a start all make statements which could be considered political. I think Reggie is just full of crap. Clearly the creative teams working on Nintendo's games have the leeway to make whatever statements they want.

Xenoblade is loaded with religious stuff. Somebody ask Reggie about that.

I think he means more that Nintendo isn't going to insert itself into current-event political issues and that's honestly a good stance to take since the only winning strategy for a company in that game is to not play.

Nintendo as a company doesn't make political statements. Except for that time they supported the Stop Online Piracy Act, then subsequently withdrew said support. It doesn't get any more political than making a yea or nay judgement on actual political policy.

Reggie doesn't make political statements because he's just a PR guy. "Nintendo" as a company generally isn't going to make literal political statements. But their games touch on political matters from time to time because Takahashi etc are not "Nintendo" nor are they responsible for PR.

The video doesn't even show what question Reggie was asked to prompt this response, robbing it of any context.