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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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