Nintendo Apologises for Racist Comment in Animal Crossing Wii

A surprising turn of events recently cropped up whilst Nintendo was in the midst of promoting Animal Crossing for Wii in the US. Now an official statement has been released regarding it. Strangely enough Nintendo has been sending members of the US Press copies of the 2005 release Animal Crossing: Wild World for Nintendo DS, complete with plenty of features that can be transferred over to the Wii edition, Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City ('City Folk' in the US). During the process of transferring data, journalists have spotted an interesting comment from a conversation between two characters. The full comment is

Previously played copies of the 2005 DS game 'Animal Crossing: Wild World' were sent to 14 members of the media to demonstrate the ability of players to transfer items to the new 'Animal Crossing: City Folk' for Wii.' We regret that an offensive phrase was included without our knowledge via a wireless function that allows user-generated catchphrases to spread virally from one game to the next. This version is limited to 14 copies created for media review purposes only and is not available at retailers. We sincerely apologise for the incident and are working with media who received the game cards to return them to Nintendo immediately.