Nintendo's Racial Slur

Nintendo is facing a PR crisis this week after a copy of the DS game Animal Crossing Wild World was sent out to media with an embarrassing, racially charged error in the programming.

By
Jack Shepherd
by Jack Shepherd

BuzzFeed Staff

kotaku.com

The offender is an otherwise perfectly pleasant sheep named Baabara, who insists on referring to you with a racial epithet whenever you interact with her in the game. Nintendo is busy frantically apologizing to everyone they can think of.

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