Is Miyamoto losing his touch?

[KLAMarine]

Hiku said:

KLAMarine said:

Would they make him? If the higher ups thought it a good idea, maybe they'd make him? I don't know, I've never worked at Nintendo.

I will say that I have held jobs in the past where if I disagreed with the higher ups and disobeyed their decisions, I'd get punished if not fired.

That's why we're putting Miyamoto's carreer in context. The higher ups don't have his track record with games. He's considered a genius by his peers, etc.

But do the higher ups consider him a genius? Sure they probably don't have a track record with games and they might not have cared, they might have just wanted to make money and be rid of excess Wii U stock.

Of course I can only speculate on events behind closed doors with no means of verifying any of my suspicions.

Hiku said:

But if you find it plausible that they would force him to do it even after hearing that it's a bad idea from Miyamoto himself, that tells me what I need to know.

If you know of a way to eliminate the possibility beyond a shadow of a doubt, let me know. Maybe you have secret emails between Miyamoto and key people or secret recordings of Miyamoto sitting atop his throne within Nintendo HQ?

Hiku said:

KLAMarine said:

Not just Miyamoto: again, pay attention to his ( or rather, the translator's ) numerous usage of the word "we". Apparently other input contributed to SF0's final design.

No, just Miyamoto. He said "it made me think I should continue to create Starfox utilizing these elements". I'm talking about who came up with the idea of having Starfox become an actual game as part of the Gamepad project. Not who worked on it.
Because Miyamoto wanted to make a Starfox game that heavily focused on the Gamepad, the developers were forced to design the game around this, whether they liked it or not.

And as someone who has developed software before, I can tell you that many things can change between conception of an idea and implementation of that idea as other people begin to provide their own input and exert their own influence.

Hiku said:

KLAMarine said:

I find the questions meaningful: when trying to evaluate Miyamoto's output within an organization staffed by many other people, I find them to be relevant.

My estimate on how valued it may be is irrelevant.
And you repeatedly asking a bunch of people on Vgchartz if they've worked with Miyamoto is pointless as you already know what the answer will be.

Just trying to get people to think about the issue at hand.