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forest-spirit on 07 December 2011

I think that's a good decision. Now he'll be able to work with more "personal" projects but he'll still be there whenever someone needs him.



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Level1Death on 07 December 2011
VGKing said:
Its about time. Maybe get someone younger who really understands the Western Market.
New IPs are a must as well for the Wii U and 3DS.

Nintendo needs to understand "their market" not the western market.



 

 

 

Khuutra on 07 December 2011
forest-spirit said:
I think that's a good decision. Now he'll be able to work with more "personal" projects but he'll still be there whenever someone needs him.


Yeah, that's pretty much my take on it too. I don't think they're going to hesitate to ask him to take a look at the next 2D/3D Mario, or the next Zelda, or Pikmin 3 (maybe he's directing that one). This will just end up being a lower-stress, more focused position.



Roma on 07 December 2011
VGKing said:
Its about time. Maybe get someone younger who really understands the Western Market.
New IPs are a must as well for the Wii U and 3DS.

 

 

kids these days…



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

kopstudent89 on 07 December 2011
Khuutra said:
forest-spirit said:
I think that's a good decision. Now he'll be able to work with more "personal" projects but he'll still be there whenever someone needs him.


Yeah, that's pretty much my take on it too. I don't think they're going to hesitate to ask him to take a look at the next 2D/3D Mario, or the next Zelda, or Pikmin 3 (maybe he's directing that one). This will just end up being a lower-stress, more focused position.


He's been mentioning for a while that he wants to make new IP like with Pikmin. It's interesting to see how that would turn out



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Siko1989 on 07 December 2011

He has to retire sooner or later but why announce it out of no where? lol




Carl on 07 December 2011
forest-spirit said:
I think that's a good decision. Now he'll be able to work with more "personal" projects but he'll still be there whenever someone needs him.

This. Probably the best news coming out of Nintendo in 2011.

I'm assuming Pikmin 3 will be his last "main" Nintendo game, before he moves on to whatever project(s) he has planned. Miyamoto teaming up with a small, new, young development team for a new IP could bring something magical.



                            

theprof00 on 07 December 2011

Bout time he went back to making games.
Nintendo could really use more help in that department.



Mr Khan on 07 December 2011

It seems to me that his best role in an at-large position at this point is working as a bad idea filter, to keep other developers in Nintendo from getting too far off-track

It would be quite interesting to see him work on something more personal, however



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

megaman79 on 07 December 2011

Wouldn't it be boring though to just watch other people make games?

He's clearly wanting to continue making games, and developing ideas, so let him do it.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.