Miyamoto Semi-Retires from Nintendo

Or more accurately, he's going to only be working on smaller projects from now on.

Nearly fell off my chair till I read the article.

Yeah, I can understand Miyamoto's actions here.

You got some dirt on you. Here's some more!

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Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Well, despite his status, even legends will grow old, and the guy's pushing 60, so I can see why he would step down.

It's still pretty sad.

Curse your sensationalist thread title!

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That's unfortunate, though he's had a very good run as far as the big-name titles go.

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HURRAY! MARIO WILL SUCK!!

I am completely, utterly, and thoroughly done with Sola Sonica and 2D

I don't really think he's had much to do with any of the Super Mario games since the concept for Super Mario Galaxy.

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And you're saying that's a good thing? O_o

He's barely involved with Zelda anymore either, and in most of the projects he does these days, he takes the Team Dad role, being the oldest in the EAD dept.

edited 7th Dec '11 7:36:51 PM by MrW

Eh, no surprise here. That generation of developers is about to retire after all...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Oh god, the thread name nearly gave me a heart attack.

Anyway, good for him, he needs some time off from being infinitely awesome.

^^^^ ...

edited 7th Dec '11 7:36:38 PM by TechPowah

The New Age of Awesome is here! Not even the sky is the limit!

Well It will be a sad day for gaming when he DOES retire but right now is only a meh from me (not a nintendo guy personally)

Yes he does man, Yes he does.

edited 7th Dec '11 7:36:33 PM by TwilightFalchion

I think the recent Super Mario games have been some of the best of the series. I don't think Miyamoto's required for them to make more quality Mario games.

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@miru: Sonic stopped being a competitor of Mario when Sega stopped making consoles, it's okay.

I totally agree with this. They seem to keep improving, actually.

edited 7th Dec '11 7:41:13 PM by Firebert

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I already answered that.

edited 7th Dec '11 7:44:23 PM by MrW

You're slow at editing your statements!

Anyways, yeah. I think Nintendo's alright at their output without Miyamoto supervising everything. Their teams seem to have a good handle on things, generally speaking. Although it would be nice to have someone above each of the project leads supervising their output, it's not strictly needed.

Miyamoto himself may end up producing rather creative products and add to the company's overall output. It should be rather interesting to see.

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Miru's gonna Mir.

That being said, good for Miyamoto. He needs to start putting more of his input in games.

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

What does Mir mean?

I am completely, utterly, and thoroughly done with Sola Sonica and 2D

My Mario and Zelda games better not suck or else I'm done with Nintendo.

Idolize Sonic?

He hasn't even done that much for the past few games, and Skyward Sword got compared favorably to Oo T, so...

edited 7th Dec '11 7:53:32 PM by Firebert

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WHAT?!

I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency

I've heard he wasn't that important to the newer games, anyway.

But still, this news gave me a bit of a jump when I read the title. I nearly fell out of my bed, even.

Yeah, he's only been Supervisor for most of the last few games anyways.

And sensationalist title is sensationalist.

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Hey it was the only one I could think of.

Also, I was kinda expecting something like this to happen for a while.

You could've said "semi-retires". That's what I told me friends.

And so was I, the man's nearly 60!

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