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I really don't think it's disdain. People underestimate how out of touch Nintendo really is. The company is run by dinosaurs who have NO idea what is going on in the industry or in players' minds.
Up until just a few years ago, ideas for game design/mechanics were submitted in written form on a little sheet of paper and dropped in a box like Homer Simpson asking for no more apples in the vending machine. I heard a story about a Western translator at a Nintendo Japan meeting. He was there with an American guy who was explaining to the execs that they need more robust online features and player options and kept citing how PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam were trouncing them with regards to online. He was taken out of the meeting and told to stop mentioning the competing platforms because literally no one in the room had ever used any of them and had no idea what he was talking about.
They just have no fucking idea about what their audience wants from them and they don't care. It's why we have all these INSANE decisions like
>should we let the players race on 3 lap tracks because they don't like our open world
>>no give them more open world tracks
while also having
>hey should we make a stupid and bizarre crippled robot basketball game to show off our new hardware?
>>absolutely full steam ahead!