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Minoru Arakawa would usually say to the disgruntled marketing team at NOA that marketing is just a big waste of money and point to the original Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong as proof of that. Two titles that didn't get any marketing, and ended up selling gangbusters.

I believe there are still people at Nintendo who share his ideas - which says that if a product holds enough quality and appeal, it will sell itself.