Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and his team have spoken about penis detection in the highly moderated Miiverse. Wii U Miiverse social network director Yoshiomi Kurisu has revealed that it was a complex issue that inevitably needed solving. Here’s how they went about it.
Iwata: I agree. The unique feature of the Miiverse is being able to send drawings, not just text. But since the advent of the internet, there have always been those who have used it for unsavory purposes.
Kurisu: Right, auto-detection of bad words is very simple.
Iwata: Yes, text messages may be easy to moderate; however, drawings are much more difficult.
Yuzawa: (laughs) I think I know where this is going.
Kurisu: Let us get this out of the way then. (laughs) We anticipated that some users would draw…
Kato: Can we even say the word?
Iwata: Go ahead. (laughs)
Kurisu: Ahem, uh. Some users would take to drawing penises.
Everyone: (laughs)
Kurisu: Well, it’s true. It seems to be more of a phenomenon found in the west.
Motoyama: Yes, we never had such a problem with our Hatena services. But, when we brought Hatena Flipnote to the West, we were caught off-guard by the amount of penises drawn by people.
Kurisu: So the team and I had to come up with a way to create a system that auto-detects those types of pictures.
Kato: Kurisu-san suggested we study different types of penises in order to create figure out the relative shape and size people would draw. We spent a week doing that before we realized that we should have been looking at drawings of penises rather than real-life pictures. (laughs) We were very embarrassed about that.
Kurisu: My judgement on these types of situations is poor. (laughs)
Motoyama: After a week, we made very good progress on the system. Then we tested the system with Nintendo of America and told them to start drawing. It went horribly.
Kurisu: What we learned is that people enjoy drawing penises. Multiple ones. (laughs) The system was not prepared to handle that.
Iwata: I do not think your team anticipated how difficult this would get!
Kurisu: No. (laughs)
Yuzawa: I was disheartened myself. We spent a few more weeks trying to get a system working.
Motoyama: Nintendo of America really took the system to its limits.
Yuzawa: You know what surprised me. No one drew a single vagina.
Everyone: (laughs)
Iwata: So, in the end, it all worked out?
Kurisu: Yes, we can safely say that we have a very good system to detect penis drawings. Hopefully player’s Miiverse experiences will be a fun one!
Thanks, Nintedward
Update: A large majority of you are reporting that this was actually a parody. Thanks for letting me know!
Da Faq?
I thought this was real , and I was in stitches XD! Sorry if I caused any inconvenience lol.
were’d ya find it? derpibooru? lol
It was on N4G.com ….. I thought it was real lol.
im drawing a vagina right now lmao lets see how long it takes for them to take it off. yes i know its fake but its still funny
LOL!!!!!!
Must…. Not… Draw… Penises……….
this site is taking the piss now…this chat is fake! its a parody!
First (did it only to get reaction)
SHUT UP MEG
That comment always ccrack me up xD
And you werent even first. Probably because of the penis in your butt.
No, no penis in butt. They censored that.
Then why is your picture a penis?
Oh, I never noticed.
Now I’ll go to the corner and cry…
This came out of left field and scored a grand slam on the LOL meter.XD
You know this was made up as a joke, right?
LMAO!!!!!
Best news story eva!
This was a fake post on a game parody site.
This is funny as heck I couldn’t stop laughing. I guess us west coasters really enjoy drawing penises xD
I never understood how my friends thought that everyone has a bit of gay in them…now…I do XD.
This is fake by the way.
This is fake, I thought? I never read it in an Iwata Asks, just in the “article” about it
Oh guys, I`m laughing out so loud now that all co-workers got here to ask what am I laughing at…This couldn`t be true but sure it is funny how They went to study photos of real penises…..ROFLMAO…..
I don’t know if it’s true or not , but i LOL’d pretty hard!
8========D~~
PENIS DETECTED! PENIS ALERT!
ERROR ERROR CODE 69…. MUST….DELETE….PENIS
Lol the title caught me off gaurd
A detection sistem that lets you see wen a penis is about to show up??? Yes it would be great to know wen aleous is going to post
” Kurisu-san suggested we study different types of penises in order to create figure out the relative shape and size people would draw. We spent a week doing that before we realized that we should have been looking at drawings of penises rather than real-life pictures. (laughs) We were very embarrassed about that.”
“You know what surprised me. No one drew a single vagina.”
Laughing extremely loud! But this sounds fake…
I laugh sooo hard that my manager told me to keep it down……lol……… i love this.
Even though its a parody, its funny because you know this is a conversation that probably actually happened xD
Drawing penises on Miiverse is the whole reason I want a Wii U.
… True.
U gay boy?
sarcasm…
I love how legitimately this sounds like an Iwata Asks
Funny thing is, if this weren’t a parody, surely that system would prevent people from drawing the eternal shuffling chode that is the goomba.
PINGAS!!!!
Would be indescribably more fun if it was real…
That’s funny shit right there XD
That doesn’t change the fact that there’s way too many penis drawings on flipnote.
Well that depends on who your friends are since only friends can send you notes. This is the same thing as Swapnote here in the states right?
-_- Flipnote was the animation app from the DSi, remember?
Never had a DSi. Went from DS to 3DS.
same and i had the original brick
lucky! i went from game bay advance sp to 3ds
*boy
LMAO
Haha people love Penis.
True drawing penises is fun(I do it rearly,rearly,rearly) .I’m a guy,not gay,just something to laugh at.But really no one draws vagina’s,because no one likes to,cause it ain’t funny in the west!
it isnt!? *lives in america
you look new here, and yes it isn’t that fun to draw a vagina,since it’s not used like *if you know what I mean*
PENISES GALORE! Wooohoooo!
looks like vaginas will be a new trend in internet art. Also, things that look like dicks but aren’t, and I guess dicks that look like things. …..
For being a parody, it seemed pretty legit. I can totally imagine a conversation like that taking place.
Sigh, America. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Parody or not, we all know this is a mega issue. Why do people draw that stuff?! Do we blame ‘SuperBad’ or culture?
We blame dicks like you! Lolololol
says the dick himself. lolololololololololololololollooolllllloooooo!
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And what about Penis ASCII?
Tis too funny
Oh, God! What a laugh! I read this at lunchtime, and had a hard time keeping a straight face during General Statics and Dynamics class.
Please don’t post inappropriate stuff, my child reads this website and i dont want him to see this.
Go on SickR delete this post,it mislead lots anyways.
I truly believed this and thought it sounded logical and understandable, until I started reading everyone’s comments about it being fake.
Me too. I’m still laughing.
I though it was true too. LMAO.
Should of asked Jonah Hill to draw.. LOL
Time to learn how to draw a vagina I guess
haha that nintendo peeps!
You would think that there are more perverts in Japan (The country that made Kancho, and the dress flipping fan club) but no. It doesn’t seem so.
Japan full of tentacles,and everything about rape.But people like Mr.Iwata is different.
Well, whatever the case maybe, if I see a penis, or a dick, or a sausage on Miiverse, I report it and block the offender.
Disgusting Americans. >:(
Racist Asian.
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