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Miyamoto is retiring from his current position at Nintendo
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http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/miyamoto-interview/
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Chris Kohler wrote:REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda will step down from his current position at Nintendo but remain with the company to work on smaller, more personal projects, Wired.com has learned.
In an exclusive interview with Wired.com on Wednesday, the 59-year-old head of Nintendo’s game design department said that he will move away from supervising the development of massive games like this year’s Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Super Mario 3D Land, passing the torch to the younger designers in the company and working on projects that won’t take as long to complete.
“Inside our office, I’ve been recently declaring, ‘I’m going to retire, I’m going to retire,’” Miyamoto said through his interpreter. “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.”
“What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself,” Miyamoto said. “Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small.”
Miyamoto said that he’s hoping to start work on a project in 2012, and hopefully show the game off publicly within the year.
“In other words, I’m not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time,” he said.
Miyamoto, whose creations propelled Nintendo to worldwide prominence beginning with 1981′s arcade game Donkey Kong and who is generally recognized as the world’s most influential and creative game designer, said he felt comfortable stepping away from supervising the Mario and Zelda games because his staff has done such a good job with this year’s critically acclaimed entries in both series.
“I’m saying this because I have a solid reaction from the existing teams,” he said. “I was able to nurture the developers inside Nintendo who were able to create something like this or something like that,” he said, gesturing to banners in the interview room in Nintendo’s office that showed the logos of Skyward Sword and Mario 3D Land.
The reason Miyamoto keeps telling the younger developers that he’s going to retire is to send the message that he won’t always be around for them to work with.
“The reason why I’m stressing that is that unless I say that I’m retiring, I cannot nurture the young developers,” he said. “After all, if I’m there in my position as it is, then there’s always kind of a relationship. And the young guys are always kind of in a situation where they have to listen to my ideas. But I need some people who are growing up much more than today.”
As for himself, Miyamoto seemed eager to get to work on his new ideas with a smaller, younger staff.
“Anyway, I’m interested in doing a variety of many other things,” he said with his usual cryptic smile.
Wired.com’s full interview with Miyamoto, including his thoughts on Skyward Sword, making Mario Kart 7 with a Western development team, 3-D gaming, cell phones and more on the future of games, will be published next week.
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also bring back fzero
As brilliant as Miyamoto is, he won't be around forever, so Nintendo's gotta learn to live without him
And I'm really excited for whatever small games he puts out! Seems like a small team and a simple idea are all he needs to create something special
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Yeah I'm also very curious to see how much of the later Zelda and Mario games was him and how much was other people's ideas
Whether he needs other people around to collaborate with, or if he's got a clear vision of exactly what he wants from start to finish
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This. And it at least gives us a transitional period since he'll be working on other things. And I don't doubt that he'll provide occasional feedback to the rest of the company from time to time.
He's been a great dude for video games though.
Now get me a new Pikmin and an original Zelda on the 3DS.
it's good to see him going out and doing what he wants
the man deserves it
so it looks like he finally did that!
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I imagine the kind of games he wants to make are stuff like wii music
http://www.audioentropy.com/
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They already make amazing stuff like Mario Galaxy, imagine if they had nothing else to do but work on those games
It stressed me out.
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Me either. I just straight up didn't enjoy playing it. Hard to explain why.
because you're a chump
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It was a pretty game, and did some neat stuff
But playing it with the amount of shit going on all the time always just stressed me out.
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the last major new franchise they made was Pikmin
wii sports
which was insanely popular when it came out
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dear thread: should I play galaxy 1 or 2?
2 is just about amazing
It kind of had to be popular.
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http://www.audioentropy.com/
That's game franchises.
Some would argue that a handheld video game console with the ability to play games in 3D is at least kinda creative.
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but 3D isn't really a new line of thought in the past few years
plus the fact that it took them up until recently to get the 3D working properly
Motion controls on the Wii are the dumbest things.
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they're not that bad and if you're not worried about getting 100% you can more or less skip them
http://www.audioentropy.com/
play skyward sword
your opinion on this matter has now changed congratulations!
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I'm not gonna argue this at all. I was just pointing out that just because it's a gimmick, doesn't mean it's not creative.
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But of the relatively large amount of Wii games I played, the motion controls always felt totally tacked on.
I feel the same way about the Kinect.
Even if I think the technology on which the Kinect operates is cool as hell.
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