Should Shiggy retire since he lost touch with the gamers

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kirby007 said:

QuintonMcLeod said:

kirby007 said:

Miyamoto does not use focus groups. Instead, Miyamoto figures out if a game is fun for himself. He says that if he enjoys it, others will too. He then tests it with friends and family. Miyamoto wants players to experience kyokan; he wants "the players to feel about the game what the developers felt themselves.

A simple look at sales tells us that is not what gamers want.

Thus the question remains if he ever was thinking about retiring why not at the low point. Let new guys take the wheel.

in other words he has lost touch for years, so let him enjoy fishing and eating pizza while retired.

What sales are we looking at here?

declining hardware/software all around

You mean the sales that have been declining ever since he took on a less active role around 2010 or 2011?

Seriously, Miyamoto's been a pretty hands-off guy for Nintendo for a while now. The only two notable games that beared his mark in 2013 were Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and his pet project, Pikmin 3. The former was a big hit and the latter, though not a sales monster, was critically sucessful and far from a flop. Games like Super Mario 3D World, Wind Waker HD, and Wii Fit and Party U had little to no input from him, and were hits and misses regardless of him. And last year, I think the only two games he got his name on were the Wii U launch games, which were critically decently received and are the best-selling games for the platform by far.

The closest thing Miyamoto has gotten to "not getting gamers" in recent years was putting his name on the overpriced 3DS launch title Steel Diver. Besides that, I'm not exactly sure what brush you're smearing him with. Especially since a lot of Nintendo's problems with the Wii U can be traced to its attempting to reach out to 3rd parties, something that Miyamoto had nothing to do with.

 

If anything, I think Miyamoto should take on a more active role when possible. I understand that he's mentoring a bunch of younger people right now, but I think that if given a medium-sized studio to work with, he could have a more hands on role and create, say, one last great IP before retiring.