Accepting His Eventual Retirement, Legendary Mario Designer Reflects on the Future of Nintendo Without Him

Nintendo holds some of the gaming industry’s most profitable IPs, the most prominent of them being Zelda and Mario. These two IPs see a new game every few years and those games always end up selling an enormous number of copies.

Fans of course are aware of this; the success of Mario and Zelda games is not a secret to anyone. What many might not know is the fact that these two characters were given life by a single man. That man is Nintendo veteran Shigeru Miyamoto, and now he might be leaving it all behind!

Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto talks about his retirement and confidence in the people he leaves behind

There was a time when Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata were the driving force at Nintendo. Shigeru created characters like Mario and directed games like Super Mario Bros. He then decided he would love his fans to play Peter pan in a game, so he made The Legend of Zelda, and gave protagonist Link Peter Pan’s looks.

Satoru Iwata was Shigeru Miyamoto’s greatest supporter and he remained one till the day he left this world. These two believed in delaying a game if it is not satisfying, they believed in that “better late than never” policy.

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And they believed one more thing, the most important thing of them all, games are made for fun, not to tell stories. This theory has affected almost every game that has come from Nintendo over the years. Fans who play Nintendo games play them for gameplay and story is rarely a focus for them.

And now, after years of influencing the development of numerous first-party games, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has started discussing retirement. And for those wondering what would happen to Nintendo once he leaves, he has an answer.

In his recent interview with NPR, he stated “You know, I really feel like it’s not going to change. It’s probably going to be the same. There’s, you know, people on the executive team, creators within the company, and also people who create Mario, they all have this sense of what it means to be Nintendo. And so it’s not like there’s a lot of different opinions that go back and forth.”

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It is obvious that he thinks things would mostly stay the same once he leaves Nintendo. He has had a very positive influence over his fans throughout the years, it would not be surprising if executives stay true to the paths Miyamoto showed them once he moves on.