Posts Tagged With 'Miyamoto'

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What do you think Miyamoto could be working on in this new ‘original’ game?

YouTube Preview ImageIn an interview with zoomin.tv, Miyamoto discusses last year’s fiasco of a Wired interview and how he is indeed still working at Nintendo, and is in fact working on an original game. It is too early to tell if this new game will be on 3DS, Wii, or even Wii U, but color me interested. Anything that Miyamoto brings to the table is usually a good thing, so in Miyamoto we trust.

It’s hard to even speculate on what type of genre of game Miyamoto has cooking up at Nintendo HQ because, quite frankly, he usually creates genres when he makes games. If you can take anything away from the Wired interview it would seem that he is interested in working on smaller titles that can be completed in a short amount of time, so perhaps this project will be a downloadable set of games with a similar theme not unlike the Bit.Trip series.

What would you like to see Miyamoto bring to the table, and on what platform?

Posted by Eugene Allen 06.01.2012 in All
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The truth about Miyamoto’s employment: Keeping seniority but making indie games

The revelation last week that Miyamoto was demoting himself to focus on smaller games was only half true. By now, most of you know the demotion part was “sarcasm lost in translation,” Nintendo says. But all indications suggest Miyamoto indeed wants to focus, if not work alongside, smaller and younger development teams within Nintendo, instead of the upper-level oversight roles he’s taken on in the last 15 years. (The lone exception, in my understanding, is Wii Sports, which Miyamoto directly made.)

The 59-year-old wonder kind told CNN the day after the PR flub that he is “tiring of shepherding each new entry into the franchises he dreamed up decades ago.” Instead, ”I would like to try to do something which might be able to expand the boundary or the definition of video games,” he said. As for the scale of his next project, ”Everything starts from something small whenever we are trying to find out something new,” he added.

That’s code for indie-game—at least it’ll start that way. Provided he comes up with an idea that warrants a lot more resources, however, you better believe Nintendo will bring out the big guns. Thanks, Brysson.

Posted by Dan 12.12.2011 in All
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Breaking: Miyamoto steps down from his position at Nintendo, will focus on smaller games

Breaking: Miyamoto steps down from his position at Nintendo, will focus on smaller games
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Miyamoto. The man needs no introduction. He has been a mainstay in the industry almost since it’s inception, and today it has been revealed that he is stepping down from his position as Senior Managing Director and General Manager of Nintendo’s Entertainment Analysis and Development Division.

In an interview with Wired’s Chris Kohler, Miyamoto stated will be passing the torch to younger developers within the company, and working on smaller projects.

“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.”

“What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself. 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. In other words, I’m not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time”

“I’m saying this because I have a solid reaction from the existing teams. I was able to nurture the developers inside Nintendo who were able to create something like this or something like that. The reason why I’m stressing that is that unless I say that I’m retiring, I cannot nurture the young developers. 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.”

I for one will miss Miyamoto and all the eccentricity he brought to the table. How do you feel? Tell us in the comments.

UPDATE: Nintendo has denied that Miyamoto is stepping down.

Posted by Eugene Allen 07.12.2011 in All
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