Miyamoto: Nintendo is 'Not Going to Change' Once He Leaves - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2023 / 2,937 Views
Nintendo designer, producer, and director Shigeru Miyamoto in an interview with NPR was asked what he thinks Nintendo will be like once leaves and he believes the company will not change.
"You know, I really feel like it's not going to change," said Miyamoto. "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. Everyone has an understanding, this kind of shared understanding, of what it is to be Nintendo. And so even when there's new ideas that come up, there's always the fact that it's a new idea, but also the fact that, is it a new idea that really has the essence of Nintendo or not?
"And I think that's something that, you know - we have this incredible shared vision, almost a little scary shared vision, about this. So I think there won't - it's not going to change."
Miyamoto joined Nintendo in 1977 and helped create the art for the arcade game Sheriff in 1979. He was tasked to design another arcade game for 1981, which turned into Donkey Kong.
He was responsible for the early success of Nintendo in the video game console market with the NES / Famicom games Super Mario Bros. in 1985 and The Legend of Zelda in 1986. He was the director, producer, and designer on these games.
He has worked on dozens of games for Nintendo over the decades. Other titles include Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Galaxy, and many more.
Miyamoto turned 70 in November 2022.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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of course not, Nintendo is more than 1 person.
It really depends on the CEO of the company, if they bring in a bad CEO it can set them back and change the culture. The other thing that could change them is if they ever did sell, a private equity would completely gut it and leave a soulless company to turn a profit. Hopefully Nintendo can continue for decades to come with few changes. Either way Miyamoto will be missed when it's time to retire, but he has definitely earned it with an incredible career. To many gamers of the 80's and 90's Mario is bigger than any Disney character.
I think your comment about taking Nintendo private is the opposite of what would actually happen. When a healthy company is taking private, it is generally done so that they can have a longer time horizon. They no longer have to constantly satisfy thousands of individual investors, and they don't have fund managers and activist investors getting involved and trying to turn short-term profits at the expense of the long term.
You may be thinking of a corporate raider kind of situation, where a relatively unhealthy company, or one that's on the decline, is taken over and gutted. The thinking is that selling off the assets is better than continuing the business, or at least some parts of the business. But, this would not be the case with Nintendo, at least not at this point. Nintendo is in good shape.
I hope they change. I want a mobile RTX 4070 (desktop 4060) in a box home console. $400 and faster than the Series X. Not hard to do 3 years later with 4nm instead of 7nm. NVidia is putting the same chip running at 35W in laptops right now. That is how efficient 4nm is. Would be a great companion device, running the same games as the Switch 2.
It's a tiny and cheap to manufacture <190mm2 chip. Almost the same as the MCM Wii U chip in size. The desktop 4070 is a large chip, but the desktop 4060 or laptop 4070 is a tiny chip, much slower.
Change is good.
Change is change. It is entirely capable of being good or bad.
I'm getting pretty sick of the "It's change, deal with it" mentality. As Salnax said, change is equally capable of being good or bad. People resist change when they believe it's bad. Sometimes they're wrong, sometimes the one instigating the changes are wrong. To simply say "Change is good" is lacks nuance.
Not necessarily. EA use to be good until they changed.
Change can be good.
