Why Are There No Prominent Black Nintendo Characters? [Solved]

Probably (pure baseless speculation on my part) because at it's core Nintendo is a Japanese company and when they design games, they firstly design them intended for the Japanese market. Black people aren't an integral part of their society so that's why it's not reflected in the games. 180 views. ·.

Other Nintendo series includes: Starfox, which has no people at all, only animals. F-Zero, largely aliens. Donkey Kong, all animals. Yoshi, all animals. Kirby, no humans. Fire Emblem, European Fantasy so mostly European characters, though I believe there are a few black characters, but I haven't played enough of the games to remember.

I was looking through the Smash roster and realized that there were NO black characters at all. Nintendo has: White Caucasian characters (Samus, Little Mac), Italians (Mario and Luigi), Asians (most Fire Emblem characters) and European style characters, (Link, Zelda).

Why are there no prominent black Nintendo characters? Thread starter CyberSai; Start date Feb 26, 2014; Forums. Gaming. Nintendo Lobby. Prev.

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Instead, Black characters and diversity in gaming in general tend to be relegated to the sideline, and as a result seem more like an afterthought than an intentional action taken by developers.

Nintendo has been making games for like over 40 years and they dont have any prominent characters that arent white. The fact that the Fire Emblem series alone has hundreds of characters and none of them are black says a whole lot. They need to be better. To the people saying that this represents the industry as whole please just stop.

Is the problem racism at Nintendo? No. The problem is lack of popular black main characters in gaming culture. Why? As for Nintendo, should they add some characters over over characters because they’re black? That would be treating blackness as their defining trait.

I think people should just be honest and say they should have added Twintelle instead of Min-Min. I'd be fine with either, but I get the argument for Twintelle since there's so very few other notable Nintendo black characters from recent games.