Nintendo Explains Why the Release Date for Super Mario Maker is September 11th (9/11)

"When Nintendo announced the release date of Super Mario Maker to be 9/11, many in the gaming community were rather confused as to why the company would choose such a sensitive date for the release of one of its big Fall 2015 titles. After talking with Nintendo representative Julie Gagnon, I learned why the date was chosen" -- Nintendo Enthusiast.

[Relientk77]

It definitely surprised me when they announced that it was the release date of the game

[nX]

Lol a bit oversensitive don't you think? If we would exclude historical dates from our video game (!) releases there wouldn't be too many dates in the year left.

[SaveMeJebus]

Really Nintendo? I know its been 14 years since but why not a week before or a week after? Or hey, why not try something different and release it on the 13th? Something tells me this date will change.

[Summons75]

Why because a very few people feel the world needs to stop? That's complete crap. Do kids get a day off of school? Nope, Do stores shut down? Nope, Does the government take the day off? Nope, Does the world stop spinning? Nope. So why does one company need to change their entire schedule for you. I was affected by that date just like anyone else but I have a mind to know well enough that things keep moving. Nothing stopped because of Pearl Harbor, even today you go to school, work, drive, wake up to the sun shining and setting. Yes, it was an awful tragedy but you are right, it was 14 years ago and the world keeps spinning. Even when I was in school, they did a "moment of silence" for the first two years then it was just a thing, an awful thing. If you want them to stop everything for us then shouldn't it be fair to stop everything the day Japan had that awful earthquake and a near nuclear meltdown...

Games have released on 9/11 in previous years but no one has batted an eye, but because it's NIntendo...they clearly are anti USA and the torches need to come out.

[SaveMeJebus]

Ok, I get it that 911 is its worldwide release date, not just NA. So let's all wake up and run out to the store to buy a new Mario! We can just play video games all day and pretend it never ever happened! After all 911 is "just a thing" now right?

[Timbalada]

Even though I agree with the sentiment that they shouldn't have to adjust the date, I think it's not a PR battle worth fighting. Even though it seems Nintendo has been a little hard of hearing when it comes to public perception...

[shaw98]

@SaveMeJebus It is sad, but we must move on in our lives. It is good to remember tragedies to respect those that passed and to make sure it does not happen again, but to hide in fear and not continue our lives is only giving what those terrorists of 9/11 wanted. We must show that we are strong as a nation or we will only give the enemy the opportunity to hurt us more, and make us stop what we Americans pride over. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

May God bless America.

[rainslacker]

9/11 isn't really a day that Americans spend a lot of time doing stuff in remembrance of that day, like say 4th of July. There are moments of silence, the random candlelight vigils, and some official statements from politicians, an official honor guard ceremony somewhere, and things like that, but everyone's lives go on

Technically, 9/11 is Patriot Day, and is a day of remembrance for the victims of 9/11, but it is not a national holiday. Flags are flown at half mast, and a moment of silence is observed. The world keeps on going otherwise, and people still go on with their lives.

Trying to make some company out as anti-american, or calling them inconsiderate because they choose to release on that day is too much of a stretch.

Basically, most people don't spend the day mourning the past, and they do indeed go out and buy things or behave as they typically would on that day.

[XiMasterChief]

Do people stop for Pearl Harbour? Just like the guy said on top.

[freshslicepizza]

why should it change? we have to move on here and releasing this game on that day is in no way being disrespectful.

[dillhole]

Find me a date where no tragedy occurred.

[Bathyj]

I was going to make a Jim Jeffries reference about April 18 but I just found out about some civil war.

[Concertoine]

June 16th. Oh wait, forgot about Nintendo's conference...

[Metallox]

Take my money.

[Number-Nine]

December 20th.

o wait. I was born.

[OdieEsty]

Who would be offended by that

[Zcarnut]

That was my first thought. My sisters birthday is on 9/11. We still celebrate it then as we did before 2001.

[jmc8888]

Is this article serious?

[CouldHaveYelledUiiW]

Yes, and we should stop.all entertainment on that day henceforth!

Close the.bars, the clubs, turn off all TVs, close movie theatres, and shut down all the Interwebz...

NON-Issue!

[CouldHaveYelledUiiW]

Just in case, my above comment needed a

/S

Sorry about 9/11 but don't use its anniversary as a club to shame or hurt rival video game companies.

[nesiguess]

Oh brother...

[DragonKnight]

Oh for the love of, are people really going to get this uppity about a date?

Look, this is the same situation with things like words and such. If all you ever do is ensure that the day is a day of somber attitude and sadness, then you can never actually move forward.

I can't speak for any of the people that died on that day, especially since I live in Canada, but I really wouldn't want my life to be remembered for how it ended.

And another thing that has to be remembered. The U.S. is one country made up for approx. 400 million people. The world is hundreds of countries made up of 7 billion people. You can't expect the world to stop every year on one day when it hasn't stopped for the millions killed by wars, conquest, and diseases throughout human history. If you think one attack on a few buildings that killed less people than the resulting war did is reason to halt the gears of time and progress, then why aren't you demanding that products not be sold on the day marked by the beginning of the First, Second, and Third Crusades? Why can we go watch a movie on Dec. 7th, which is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor?

People need to learn to let go. You don't have to forget history, you can learn from its mistakes so they aren't repeated, but you shouldn't let it dictate every action moving forward.

Nintendo should not have to justify when they want to release a game. You're free to not buy it on that day if it's such an outrage, but me personally I put such an outrage on the same level of ridiculous that I do when people say you can't put up a Christmas tree until after Remembrance Day because it's disrespectful to the soldiers. Are you trying to tell me soldiers don't like Christmas? I can't remember them, and look forward to holidays they themselves would enjoy too if they could? Are you trying to tell me there are no gamers among the soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 or there were no gamers among the victims of 9/11?

Come on now. People need to stop looking for reasons to be outraged and just move on in life.

[Double_O_Revan]

Really!? Who cares? It happened, we moved on, we'll never forget it, but we dont sit around and cry about it every year. I still go to work. My kids still have school.

What if they decided to release it on December 7th?

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

A game about building new things and overcoming challenges.
On the anniversary of one of the most infamous tear-downs of our time.

That's pretty damned symbolic, right there.
I like it. It's kinda classy.

[WeAreLegion]

As someone who actually lost a family member in 9/11, I assure you...we don't care. It's just a day.

[N0TaB0T]

*exhales*

Whooo cares.

[Bathyj]

My cousin celebrates September 11 every year. As he has since he turned 1. Somehow, the world keeps spinning.

[Wyleray]

The idea, since nobody seems to be able to comprehend it, is that a Japanese game developer is not showing respect to a recent American tragedy by releasing this game on this date. I don't see the problem, but the event should not be taken lightly either, with the childish sarcasm etc. Thousands died. It is understandable if certain people don't want heir children looking froward to it. There is more to a story than what you immediately (basically don't apparently) see. Also a single person that had a member of their family, supposedly, in the tower does not speak for the entire US, or community of people that were affected.

[DragonKnight]

Thousands die literally every day. Should we cry about a day in which one place had a spike at one time in the day?

What if I had a way to take the thousands of deaths that occur a day and concentrate them in the least populated place in the world that had just enough to equal those amounts of death. Would you call it genocide and demand that day be cordoned off as a day where only sadness can be the emotion of the day?

Those who allow themselves to be stuck in the Past literally have no Future.

[ChickeyCantor]

" to a recent American tragedy"

Good gods, you people really do live in the past.
10+ years is not " recent ". In the grand scheme of human lives that's practically 1/10th..if you ever make it to 100.

[commadore65]

They should release it on August 6th or the 9th instead.

[TotalSynthesisX]

I wasn't aware that Super Mario Maker was a flight simulator or a game that featured multiple crumbling buildings. /s

Of ALL the games that could release on 9/11, a Mario game would be the LEAST offensive.

[The7Reaper]

Lol it's just a date who cares I mean sure a tragedy happened and the one's who lost their lives should be remembered but it's just a video game releasing on that day don't get your panties all in a bunch some people act like their blowing up the Empire State building as a release celebration and are going to collapse the Golden Gate bridge at the after party.

[MasterofMagnetism]

It was a tragic day where thousands of people died but it's been 14 years. Time to move on.

[WizzroSupreme]

Ya know, there were 364 other days of the year to release it, Nintendo...

[DragonKnight]

Name one day out of those 364 days where there wasn't a massacre in the hundreds of thousands of years of humanity's history.

[ChickeyCantor]

29th of February....

[Neonridr]

@ChickeyCantor - February 29th, 1964.

British plane crashes killing all 75 passengers on board and 8 crew members..

it would be blasphemy for them to release a game on that date and not pay respect to the horrible tragedy that occurred.

[SilentNegotiator]

It's a Friday in September; something was going to release that day.

Silly controversy.

[Sano64]

I could see a problem if this was a COD game taking place in the middle east but it's a damn Mario game! Give me a break!

[ZeekQuattro]

For Nintendo it was Tuesday. Man Nintendo is the devil on here to many lately. But seriously its not a big deal for people to do stuff on 9-11 besides mourn. I was shocked that a game that I thought was going to drop in December which is the norm for the average Mario game was coming out earlier than expected.

[Neonridr]

Nintendo always releases their first party games on Friday. Have done that for years now

[PlatinumGX]

No need for an explanation, really.

[vengeance]

Wow, are people really trying that hard to find a reason to bash Nintendo?

[Moonman]

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