[cancerSpreads]

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.

[saagarjha]

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

[cancerSpreads]

The Japanese culture basically prevents bad ideas from being stopped.

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