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Miyamoto is no longer directly in charge of Mario games. That hasn't been the case for six years. Bar Twilight Princess, he hasn't been project lead on a Zelda game for fifteen years. And, Miyamoto WAS involved in Metroid Prime, in fact, he argued both that the game should be first person and that a multi-visor system should be implemented to give different perspectives and to increase the potential for puzzles.

Blaming Miyamoto is an easy and misinformed thing to do. Nintendo's problems run far deeper than one man, however influential, and without Miyamoto's insight and development nous, I expect they would be in a far worse position. It was, after all, Miyamoto that dreamt up Nintendo's biggest and most successful new intellectual properties this decade: Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Nintendogs.

Nintendo do need more variety in their software, but that won't come about by forcing the most influential games designer in history to retire. It will come about if Nintendo continue to allow new blood, like Yoshiaki Koizumi, take charge of their existing franchises, invest in new studios (like Platinum and Monolith Soft), return to franchises that aren't often utilised, and create new intellectual property. Removing Miyamoto won't make any of those things happen.

EDIT: Also, hasn't Wii U seen a new Nintendo IP, co-developed by Platinum, release this year? The Wonderful 101, anyone?