I think what he means is why, with all the graphics that it can do, they just made it into a cartoon.
The preident of nintendo should come out and say "Hey America, we are a friggn *playing card company* and have been sense 1874. We do this console thing as a side job to make money from the 3-11 year of age bracket. Our "mature" audince buys our playing cards and plays poker, Blackjack, and other games of chance. Our product is in every casino in Japan."
If Americans would just realize that Nintendo's main line of manufacturing is Playing cards and poker chips, they won't be going around asking "WHY?" every time they make a pokemon N64 that truns on when you press down on Pikachu's foot.
-halkun
P.S. Oh, BTW I did mean 1874, they have been around for more that 100 years. Theu also make bone Mah-jongg tilesets too. Very nice.