Shigeru Miyamoto reflects on his legacy and retirement

The creator of Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong video game characters had the industry buzzing when an interview was published by Wired earlier in December in which he hinted at retirement. But the 59-year-old game designer told the Associated Press through an interpreter that he was simply misunderstood. He said that while he has no plans to quit Nintendo, he is working to prepare the famed Japanese company's younger game designers to take over eventually for him and others in the old guard.

Miyamoto currently holds the title of Manager of Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development division. His creations appear in three recently-released titles: "Mario Kart 7", "Super Mario 3D Land" and "The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword". Miyamoto expects his characters to outlive him.
Nintendo's first foray into HD will be when its Wii U console is released, likely late in 2012. But Miyamoto says he's simply not been interested in photo-realistic graphics as a game designer.

Miyamoto says he is working on several upcoming games including "Pikmin 3" for the Wii U, "Luigi's Mansion 2" for the 3DS and an undisclosed original title.

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[PiromancerFreak]

you have to put faith in the next generation of gamers.. hell Nintendo is over a 100 years old and its still going strong.

[Christopher Chase]

He even says that he doesnt personaly like photo realistic games... He wants to be different from the rest

PS3 and Xbox 360 are the same in that reason... thats why i love Miyamoto hes original and not like the rest

You cant beat that xbox/ps3 :D

[coolcollin908]

If Nintendo goes down and my friends rubs in my face that it did, I'll just go home and play Ocarina of Time

[jcndkeirj00]

Ohh yeah, and one more thing. This time I WILL fucking kill you. Dishonorable filth.

[jcndkeirj00]

I know people will think I'm trolling, but I would officially like to say FUCK YOU to Mr. Miyamoto. I'm not gonna keep hitting these pages. But you, Mr. Miyamoto, need to man the fuck up and tell the real truth about Nintendo, and the "people" you never gave credit to when you took all the glory. If it were up to me,I would officially strip you of your title as the best game designer ever. You illuminatti piece of shit. You wanna fight mother fucker, you know where to find me. FAGGOT!!!!!

[Primarch Vakarian]

The day he retires will be a sad day for gaming.

[axlar1]

oh, come now, PS3 and XBOX have pleanty of cartoony games for them.

[modde raccoonmario]

SEAAAAAAAAL

[bioshockinfintyfan]

These games are good but they are not the fun and colorfull games everybody likes.

[antieye555]

I can't hear Bethesda... probably because I speak Japanese

[iLegendaryZelda]

Nonononono, Miyamoto must never die/retire he made the best games I had ever played, The Legend of Zelda. If Nintendo ever goes down, I will go down with it, Nintendo is and will forever be a big part of my life....;

[CrazyGamer916]

Shigeru Miyamoto needs to get a child so when he dies his child could continue his epicness

Then again, He lives forever.