Yeah, and Miyamoto himself has gone on to say he has very little to do with the outcome of most of the games he has worked on recently. He's usually only there to supervise a project now. It's not difficult to see why he made a name for himself, though, when the early games he worked on had such small teams. Sakamoto is very much the same, and Nintendo is likely trying to push his name because they no longer have someone from the original Metroid team with the same name power as Gunpei Yokoi.
...and don't get me wrong I do believe one man can still influence the outcome of a game in some ways, but I think it's ultimately up to the entire team in the end to deliver on the project. Kojima is a good example. When Kojima's not involved in the development of a Metal Gear project... it's usually pretty evident, but take away his team and he's obviously not going to get anywhere.
So, yeah I take back what I said. It's equally wrong of me to place the blame on Team Ninja, when they were only part of what formed Project M. I honestly forgot that Project M was made up of 3 development teams, when I started placing the blame on Team Ninja. *embarassed*
You know what's worse? I actually kind of like Other M. I just feel like they should take a different direction for Metroid.
