Shigeru Miyamoto says Nintendo will live on without him

Video game industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto says that Nintendo will live on without him in the years to come.

In one form or another, Nintendo has been around since 1889 founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi when it used to specialise in handmade hanafuda playing cards. It wasn't until 1977 that Nintendo distributed its first console, the Color TV-Game.

However, in 1983 following the release of the NES (or the Famicom in Japan), Nintendo really started to become an industry leader. Consoles such as the SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii (U), and the Nintendo Switch have dominated the market.

What’s more, for nearly 40 years, Shigeru Miyamoto has been at the forefront of Nintendo’s continued dominance. Miyamoto is also responsible for iconic franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong and more.

Now 70 years old and currently serving as a representative director, when Miyamoto eventually leaves Nintendo, he says the company will continue to grow and live on without him. As much as we love Miyamoto-san, we don't doubt that for a second.

As reported by TweakTown, during a recent interview with National Public Radio, Miyamoto said: “You know, I really feel like it's not going to change. It's probably going to be the same.”

“There's 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,” he continued. “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. Even when there are 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?

“We have this incredible shared vision, almost a little scary shared vision, about this. So I think it's not going to change,” concluded Miyamoto.

In recent news, Pokemon fans face losing decades of progress all thanks to the closure of the Nintendo eShop. Furthermore, Nintendo’s next major hit will be The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom when it arrives for the Switch on 12th May, 2023.

Topics: Nintendo