Who is more important to Nintendo? Gunpei Yokoi or Shigeru Miyamoto?

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Kantor said:
They both are/were very important to Nintendo, and to the game industry as a whole. It really depends how you look at it.

More important to the rise of Nintendo? Undoubtedly Gunpei Yokoi.

But, more important to the continued quality of Nintendo? The reason it still has so many fans after all of these years?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_games_created_by_Shigeru_Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto.

That list is misleading. Miyamoto had little to no involvement in many of those games.

For example; Super Mario Kart was designed by Hideki Konno and Tadashi Sugiyama with Miyamoto simply agreeing to let them use Mario characters.

Not saying he isn't great. It's just that some people give him too much more credit than he deserves.