Nintendo explains their social responsibility stance, and ban on conflict minerals

Just the other day, Nintendo put out the Japanese version of their Corporate Social Responsibility report, which shows how Nintendo aims to operate their business in a responsible way on global scale. That includes a ban on the use of conflict minerals in the creation of their hardware. For those who don't know, conflict minerals are natural resources extracted in a conflict zone and sold to perpetuate the fighting.

While we wait for the English version of Nintendo's CSR report, Nintendo has provided a statement on their social responsibility in general below.

"Nintendo takes its social responsibility as a global company very seriously. We have an unequivocal policy banning the use of conflict minerals in any of our products, and expect our production partners to do the same. Because Nintendo outsources the manufacture and assembly of all Nintendo products to its production partners, we established the Nintendo CSR Procurement Guidelines based on relevant laws, international standards and guidelines that focus on protecting human rights, ensuring workplace safety, promoting corporate ethics and safeguarding the environment. We share these guidelines with all of our production partners.

We continue to actively work with our production partners in our supply chain to refrain from using conflict minerals in our products."