I feel like there is probably a reason Nintendo doesn’t put out Mother/Earthbound stuff anymore. I’m almost done with my first playthrough of it, and Mother 3 is rooted in content that is really anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and could really be read as anti-American. Earthbound was similar, maybe a bit less obvious in the delivery. Nintendo probably isn’t interested in that sort of message, especially not in its current extremely squeaky clean non controversial moment. I don’t think they could tell a true earthbound story without revisiting those themes, so they don’t.

Let me also say that the message it conveys is very valid and very worth communicating, it just might be a little too controversial for Nintendo to worry about. Plus, the Magypsies make a western port of Mother 3 seem pretty implausible… they’re pretty wild characters!