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Miyamoto Steps Down As Nintendo Game Design Head

Posted by timothy on from the truly-an-american-icon dept.

RobinEggs writes "Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator and producer of the Zelda and Mario franchises among other works, is stepping down at Nintendo. After personally managing Nintendo's blockbuster franchises for ~20 years, Miyamoto said today: 'What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself. Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small.'" Update: 12/08 21:35 GMT by T : Note that Nintendo is careful to say that this is not retirement, even if Miyamoto's role at Nintendo changes.

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  1. slashdot behind again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nintendo already came out and said he was not stepping down. slashdot is behind like always

  2. Denied by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nintendo has apparently already denied this.

    http://spong.com/article/25917/Nintendo-Strongly-Denies-Miyamoto-Retirement

  3. Debunked by pablo_max · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114616-Miyamoto-is-Not-Stepping-Down

  4. Debunked! by Viros · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://wii.ign.com/articles/121/1214255p1.html

    Word from Nintendo is that Miyamoto is NOT stepping down and this was a misinterpretation.

  5. I feel the same way by TonyXL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My reward for being a good designer/coder was to oversee a large design/code team. I miss designing/coding.

  6. Re:Who else ... by dabadab · · Score: 5, Informative

    Shigeru Miyamoto is by far the most famous person with the Miyamoto surname. Especially outside of Japan.

    Also, outside of Japan people are usually referred to by their family name and Miyamoto Musashi is the most famous person with the Miyamoto family name.
    However, in all fairness, it is rather unlikely that a samurai who spent the last 366 years being dead would be a game design head at Nintendo.

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