Legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto spoke with him NPR on a range of topics including what Nintendo would be like without him. Mr. Miyamoto said he believes the company will be the same as it is now because he said the entire team has a shared vision of what makes a Nintendo game and that shared vision will not change. He said that vision is shared by everyone from “the people on the executive team, the creators within the company and also the people who create Mario.” He concluded by saying that this will not change.
NPR: One day Nintendo will exist without you. What do you think Nintendo will be like without you?
MIYAMOTO: (Through translator) You know, I really feel like that’s not going to change. It will probably be the same. There are, you know, the people on the executive team, the creators within the company, and the people who create Mario, they all have this sense of what it means to be Nintendo. And it’s not like there are a lot of different opinions going back and forth. Everyone has an understanding, such a shared understanding, of what it means to be Nintendo. And even when new ideas appear, there is always the fact that it is 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 bit scary shared vision, about this. So I don’t think it will – it won’t change.
