One thing I actually do like about Nintendo from a corporate/company side - and even think they do better than Sega - is that if a series is more popular overseas, (AKA here) they're willing to outsource new titles to English-speaking countries. Punch-Out!!, Metroid, and Donkey Kong are all series that have heavily Western-inspired aesthetics and - with the exception of DK - have generally done better sales-wise in Western territories, so it makes perfect sense in every way to outsource their titles to people who have felt both the cultures that spawned, and the cultures spawned by, these games IMO
