NoA's CEO, Jack Bowser, was an EA vicepresident. Iwata, a game programmer, was succeeded by a banker and then an economist.
All the decisions they make nowdays, including adding more globohomo to their games, can be explained by this
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Pretty much why every company eventually comes to suck. The artistic and technological visionaries that build them up inevitably get replaced by bean counters who only ever want to see numbers go up.
Used to be that things would cycle. Either the old thing would die and some young upstart would come in and replace it, or there'd be a "rebirth," breathing new life and vitality into the elder, course correcting and being reborn.
Nowadays, old, dying things are kept on life support, so they don't even get the chance to be reborn. They just truck on like the shambling dinosaurs they are.
Sign of a decaying culture. Crippled by nostalgia, no innovation, constant rent-seeking, anything new is fake & gay
Car companies are probably the best example of this anywhere. 60 - 70 years ago, they were almost all founded and/or ran by people who were either racers or people who had built their first cars themselves by hand. Then they passed them to their sons, who did better or worse. Then eventually, the company goes public and some random retard ends up in control who doesn't give a shit about cars and just wants to make money.
GM is now ran by Mary Barra, a pure DEI hire with zero talent. Under her leadership, they killed Pontiac, then they killed Holden, then they killed the Camaro and I'll be stunned if they don't try to kill the Corvette next.
The cycle Honda has been going through since the founder passed.
They go through cycles of electing someone who wants Honda to go racing like they're supposed to, then some bean counter who says racing is too expensive and stifles the company.
They're the idiots to leave F1 multiple times with their Logo on a championship winning car after years of fighting... As soon as they make a fun new car the bean counters are quick to kill it.
I don't understand why we can't ever have companies that just want to see number be green. Why must number go up if the number is already green?
Legally, thanks to Dodge v. Ford, they must act in the interest of the shareholders. People who have usually little interest in the company as it exists or what it makes, only that their "investment" in it grows. If they do not work to make line keep going up, they can be ousted and replaced incredibly easily.
While that's only American law, globalization and international companies mean they often are forced to adhere to things like that in their biggest markets and operate accordingly.
They don't have to make line go up if they pay out dividends.
S corporations even have restrictions on making line go up, and must pay out in most circumstances.
Besides double taxation, dividends are boring and a sign the company peaked and can no longer innovate.
Meanwhile, growth companies are sexy and people get dopamine hits watching line go up, even if that growth resembles cancer than anything sustainable. Plus it gives the C-suite opportunities to pad their stock options before they pull the ripcords to their golden parachutes.
Dodge v. Ford is not a Supreme Court decision.
Dodge v. Ford is a Michigan state court decision.
Yet no one challenges it
A lot of American "law" is just random Executive Orders, barely read bills, or state rulings that we all just play along with.
Its one of the reasons why Roe v Wade was able to be overturned, because no one bothered to actually put it into real writing. They just left it as it was, floating easily about to be destroyed with any effort by anyone who was willing to take the hit to their reputation.
Its also the reason why we sometimes see really retarded "Virginia outlaws slavery in 2011" ideas. Because its better to get that on the record than leave it in that floating state.
They replaced thinking with math.
That's a fantastic line. I'm stealing that.
it'd be nice if consumers actually get some fucking standards and stop buying the slop.
The only reason we're in this mess is we have too many retards with no impulse control