Nintendo is still stuck in the 80s (or more accurately, what Japanese call the Showa era due to it being heavily conservative), especially for its heavy-handed proprietary business practices where they use buildings full of lawyers to protect its intellectual properties as sacred objects. They’ll have little to lose because they weaponized nostalgia to keep a lot of fans and mostly casuals paying for their products, even as they crush some fanworks as inimical to their profits.
Nintendo is still stuck in the 80s (or more accurately, what Japanese call the Showa era due to it being heavily conservative), especially for its heavy-handed proprietary business practices where they use buildings full of lawyers to protect its intellectual properties as sacred objects. They’ll have little to lose because they weaponized nostalgia to keep a lot of fans and mostly casuals paying for their products, even as they crush some fanworks as inimical to their profits.