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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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.