Nintendo has had a... weird relationship with textiles. There was also the Nintendo Knitting System: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=279935495445300
If you look at the last few decades you can see horrible ideas executed at a professional level.
Whenever I see a Nintendo Ad, I'm thinking to myself, those poor regional Marketing department have to sell this. Then again, Nintendo knows to advertise primarily to children, so maybe it's not that hard.
If your boss says to do something, you don't disagree.