Jimmyfenix
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NieR: Automata has a little fishing system that lets you find some nifty rare items, but after some players reeled in a trash item called NIN64 they got pretty upset and called out the developers.
The above is a look at the NIN64 item. It is described as Trash that was fished up. Can be exchanged at the shop. Of course theres no telling if it was just a little reference to the Nintendo console that somehow managed to survive the test of time until 2B fishes it out almost 10,000 years later, or if it was a tongue-in-cheek comment from the developers.
Other fans noted that perhaps it wasnt about the Nintendo 64, but a play on the MIM46, or MIM-46 Mauler, a self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system from the late 1950s.
Nonetheless, a lot of players in Japan saw it as a rather tasteless comment to call the old Nintendo hardware trash as described in the info and began demanding Square Enix to change it. Producer Yosuke Saito followed up with the tweet to address the issue, saying that they will change the name of an item youve all pointed out as well as some bug fixes in the next patch.
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/02/24/nier-automata-players-upset-discovering-trash-item-called-nin64/