Laura Kate Dale wrote an article on Kotaku UK claiming that a song from Persona 5 in Smash Bros has a disability slur in it.
This slur is 100% false and made up. To Kotaku UK's credit they did apologise for the mistake here.
The issues here are the following
Persona 5's Joker, A Stage Builder And More Are Coming To Smash Bros. Ultimate Tomorrow
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s 3.0 update will be out on Wednesday and will add a lot to the game, even if you aren’t buying the game’s paid DLC.
www.kotaku.co.uk
This slur is 100% false and made up. To Kotaku UK's credit they did apologise for the mistake here.
we screwed up with that persona lyric - Kotaku
Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
www.kotaku.co.uk
The issues here are the following
- Laura Kate Dale should have researched this properly and taken into consideration the heavy accent of the singer. The words in the song are the only English words in an otherwise Japanese language song. The singer improvises this part fo the song everytime it's sung live so it's different each time.
- She should not have written up the article without getting the facts first.
- Kotaku should have overruled her on this and said, no, we're not publishing ther article until thre is enuogh evidence here and we have a responce from Atlus on this issue.
- Atlus eventually did respondand said the issue is totally made up and the alleged words are not in the song so Kotaku was fprced through public pressure to put up an apology article.
- Kotaku in their apology article made every excuse under the sun as to why this happened instead of saying the real reason - "we screwed up"