What is happening with gaming's greatest designer?
First he was stepping down; then he wasn't. What is happening with gaming's greatest designer?
Following an interview published on Wednesday evening where Shigeru Miyamoto suggested he was planning to leave his current position at Nintendo for one where he could work on smaller, more personal projects, Nintendo was quick to deny this was the case. It's understandable why it would do this -- Nintendo's waning stock price took an immediate hit on the stock markets both here and in Japan out of fear the company would lose its creative leader and the man who created Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal (through a translator) he said,
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal (through a translator) he said,
We have to construct the structure so that the organization so that it can make it without me. I should also admit that it might be better without me; I mean that a different approach and different talent might emerge, though I shouldn’t dwell on this because then the article might indeed say ‘Mr. Miyamoto is thinking about retiring,’ because that is not the case.
In the interview with Wired that Nintendo has been trying to counteract, Miyamoto was quoted as saying, "Inside our office, I've been recently declaring, 'I'm going to retire, I'm going to retire.' I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether. What I mean by retiring is, retiring from my current position."
He also said at the time he was interested in moving away from working on games with five-year development cycles to smaller, more personal projects, possibly even one where he would be the sole developer. In the WSJ interview, he stated he'd like to work on small ideas that could eventually turn into bigger games.
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