Binding of Isaac turned down due to 'questionable religious content'
Nintendo has rejected indie title The Binding of Isaac from appearing on the 3DS.
Taking to twitter, developer Edmund McMillen said the action adventure game, available on Steam, had been turned down due to “questionable religious content”.
“After a long internal debate Nintendo has decided not to allow the Binding of Isaac on the 3ds,” said McMillen.
“As many assumed the reasons were due to the games 'questionable religious content'. Thank God Steam exists.”
Despite the disappointment, he later said that the indie developers were not on bad terms with Nintendo, and would still look to bring future titles to their platforms in the future.
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“FYI everyone, we are not at all on bad terms with Nintendo. its their platform their rules, this wont effect any future games with them,” he said.
there goes freedom of speech...
In all fairness McMillen is still just as free to express his ideas as he would have been if the game was allowed. Nintendo just do not agree with that type of message appearing on their platform. Just the same way that Disney has their own policies on the types of content is broadcasts, and just about every other TV channel, newspaper and most forms of public media :)
It really goes against Nintendo's image, in fact it wasn't so long ago that Nintendo had Mortal Kombat on the SNES without blood!! and Duke Nukem 64 with many adult references removed; so you can hardly say that freedom of speech is gone all of a sudden.
I agree wholly with MR_K. Freedom of speech is the freedom to express your ideas, not a mandate to publish anything presented to you. While from time to time, publishers and content providers may seem draconian in what they do or do not agree to put on the market is entirely their prerogative.
This was a business decision. I doubt that deep moral convictions that led to Nintendo passing on the project, rather they are intelligent enough and have done enough market research to know that they appeal to families and parents. Whatever they would have made off this game would be far less then what they stood to lose.
