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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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.