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Comment by bitwize

6 years ago

Nintendo has had a... weird relationship with textiles. There was also the Nintendo Knitting System: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=279935495445300

Nintendo does stuff like this because you can't say No to your boss in a Japanese company.

If you look at the last few decades you can see horrible ideas executed at a professional level.

Whenever I see a Nintendo Ad, I'm thinking to myself, those poor regional Marketing department have to sell this. Then again, Nintendo knows to advertise primarily to children, so maybe it's not that hard.

  • Lots of companies branch out into strange areas, Japanese or not. I don't think it's anything cultural.

    • The Japanese culture basically prevents bad ideas from being stopped.

      If your boss says to do something, you don't disagree.