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Super Mario maker Miyamoto has no plans to retire from Nintendo: “I’m thinking about the day I fall over”.Despite having a much different function at Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto is said to have no plans to retire.
Over his more than 45 years at the firm, Miyamoto has shaped video games as we know them today. It is influencing every piece of Nintendo hardware from the NES to the Switch. And inventing several of the most well-known icons in the business, including Zelda and Mario. However, the most influential game designer in the world intends to retire from the industry when his health permits.
In a perceptive interview with The Guardian, Miyamoto responds, “More so than retiring, I’m thinking about the day I fall over,”. He states that he prepares his future in five-year intervals. And it gives careful thought to “who I can pass things on to, in case something does happen,”.
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Miyamoto isn’t overly concerned about his legacy. Although his work has affected generations of gamers and, likely, the entire world due to the gamification of almost every software. “I’m grateful that there is so much energy around things that I have worked on,”. He begins, then notes that younger, newer teams have been mostly responsible for creating the most recent Super Mario and Zelda games: “In that sense, I don’t feel too much ownership over them anymore. It is because other people have been nurturing them and helping them grow.”
Miyamoto oddly points to a moment from Iron Man where the president is no longer permitted inside the corporation he founded. Despite his photo still hanging from the wall, suggesting that his only concern is that his legacy endures among his teams. “At the very least, I hope that the teams I work with remember me as the person who created these things!”
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So what does Miyamoto do for a living now? He states, “I’m about finding unique opportunities for Nintendo,”. It is undoubtedly alluding to his work on the highly anticipated Super Mario Bros. Movie, which debuted earlier this year, and Nintendo’s expanding theme park presence. He says, “The way things work here is that we come across certain things, and from there, we try to find our new path. It’s more like this than having a plan and following it.” “I’m interested to see what kind of organic things come from the movies and the theme parks. Although I’m still relatively new to the [film] industry and am constantly learning. I’m attempting to read a lot of scripts these days and gain insight into their development. It is to see how we might make films that are specifically Nintendo-branded.
