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Posted on Wednesday, March 6 @ 13:23:25 Eastern by Alex_Osborn


While Mario mastermind Shigero Miyamoto may still have the heart of a child, he's been in the business a very long time and his retirement is a disheartening inevitability. As such, the company is trying to lean less and less on his constant guidance to prepare for the future.

Speaking with GameSpot, Miyamoto explained:

This year I’m past 60; I’m going to be turning 61 this year. So for me to not be thinking about retirement would be strange. But in fact, the number of projects I’m involved in--and the volume of my work--hasn’t changed at all.

Instead, what we’re doing internally is, on the assumption that there may someday be a time when I’m no longer there, and in order for the company to prepare for that, what I’m doing is pretending like I’m not working on half the projects that I would normally be working on to try to get the younger staff to be more involved.

He then went on to explain how Nintendo is structured in such a way that the much of the staff tends to rely on him too much for direction, and he wants to change that. "For a long time I’ve been thinking that we need to try to break that structure down so that the individual producers that I’m working with are really taking responsibility for the projects that they’re working on.”

A Miyamoto-less Nintendo is an awfully scary thought. Let's hope his departure from Nintendo comes later rather than sooner.

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  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 1:49 pm
    I don't think Nintendo would suddenly collapse without the guy around. Shiggy's right, Nintendo needs new faces and said new faces need to learn to take a step off from Shiggy's success rather than try to recreate it.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 4:09 pm
    They will be so ****ed without him if a few new visionaries don't come out of the woodwork.
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 5:13 pm
    How is Nintendo is screwed without him? A person can only work at one company for so long till they get burned out or get too old. Nintendo needs some fresh faces. After all, people always whine about how Nintendo games are always the same, so with a new face, now we can hear people whine that the games now suck cause they're too different!
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 6:47 pm
    Describing how a person only lasts at a new company for do long doesn't explain why they're n
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 6:53 pm
    I HATE YOU IPHONE I HATE YOU.

    Let me start again.

    They are screwed because Nintendo's success has hinged on his games for the past 25 years. Whereas most consoles draw from varied companies led by various people, as of the last generation Nintendo has relied almost solely on first party games for success. A table with 4 legs can lose one and stand, but a table with one leg is ****ed when that leg retires. Average, uninspired Mario and Zelda games from average uninspired game directors aren't going to save your precious Nintendo.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 7:12 pm
    To be clear, I'm not saying they are screwed, I'm saying they will be if his shoes are not adequately filled
  • reiandcoke
    reiandcoke

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
    I want him to find a replacement for Eiji Aonuma on the Zelda series. The games are still good but the series has so much untapped potential.
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 8:07 pm
    Rue the day, one year after Miyamoto retires, a Mario MMO is announced, Metroid turns into a flight sim game, and Zelda gets whored out as a freemium game.
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000

    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 12:55 am
    So I'm guessing you're not a big fan of War Thunder then? Which is a freemium, flight sim, MMO.
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 2:52 am
    Never even hard of it

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