If you're a creative company and you have directors helming huge franchises who are rapidly approaching retirement, not actively training up talent beneath them is a humongous failure of management.
Why Sakurai doesn't have one or more trusted protégés is beyond me.
"We hope those fans can continue to bring that passion to our other games which have been designed to be more psychologically manipulative and stuffed with more microtransactions."
Fixed it for you.
It feels like the moment Nintendo saw that their movie was on its way to becoming the highest grossing animated movie ever they were like "QUICK, GET IT ON STREAMING, GET IT ON BLU-RAY, WE HAVE TO STOP IT!!!" lol I don't get it
Remember my five year old nephew and how Astro Bot was essentially his first game? And how he needed help getting over the first platforms in the first level because it's so hard to learn how to jump and move at the same time?
I checked up on him today...
