>>723332584
Because it's Donkey Kong, dummy, not Mario. Does this really need to be explained? People buy brands more than games. And Fire Emblem is an established brand with a certain floor of cultural/economic cachet. Awakening did its numbers on a console that didn't have nearly the install base of Switch, so you can't apply install base to sales 1:1.

>>721073206
>Cai is probably the best possible way to appease people that want black MC
You people are so brainrotted by the culture war it's unreal. This was never on the agenda. IS does not care about pandering to the niche tastes of twitter activists, and literally no one with any power and influence was judging them for their "lack" of black "representation." You're just inventing problems for yourself to be mad at.