Nintendo should use more western influence in their games

Now hold on, I'm not saying they should be making games about grizzled men swearing like sailors and killing everything that moves. Rather, I feel when Nintendo is making a new game, particularly a new IP, it wouldn't hurt to take more inspiration from Western pop-culture. Like American Comics, American Cartoons, and even non-Japanese styles of humor as well.

It's not like they haven't done this before either. Metroid was influenced by Aliens, F-Zero was inspired by Super-hero comics, Star Fox was inspired by Thunderbirds, even Mario was partially inspired by Alice in Wonderland. But many of the company's more recent games, seem mainly influenced from either personal experience of the creator, or Japanese sensibilities. That's all fine, and that's not to say they can't use Japanese influence either.

But a better balance between the two will go a long way, and give Nintendo more of an edge over most Japanese developers. Who either have devolved into trying to pander to what they think Western gamers want, or became complacent with the same regurgitated anime tropes and JRPG conventions (though things are slowly improving).

There is less of a chance of this influence due to hardware unless they reference Western mobile games.

@Pedro: I don't mean your sterotypical western game, I mean taking influence from Western media in general. Western Comics, Western Cartoons, Western Films, etc. Incorporating a little more of that in some of their games would be beneficial.

I don't see that happening mainly due to the profitability of their existing IP. They have been reselling the same games for decades and it has worked. It would continue to work until gamers stop buying these games.

We already have Kirby who loves to eat everything. Then got Punch-out, Metroid, Zelda, Star Fox, Style Savvy, Wario, etc.