stof you still phail at comedy give it up!

(haha that was pretty good, keep it up!)

I don't want to imagine a world without miyamoto, he's basically my god at this point. However after so many years of working under him and with him, I'm sure a large part of Nintendo will keep his influence at heart. Also retiring doesn't mean he can't be used as a reference source. A lot of people do that and work till they're dead just not as hard as they did in their younger years.

After Miyamoto retires, Nintendo will continue his legacy. Miyamoto didn't only created new standards for gaming, his games have been responsable for what I call the Nintendo philosophy. His way of thinking about video games in general can be found even in Nintendo games that didn't involve Miyamoto. Nintendo has proven they can make good or even great Zelda's, star fox's etc... without the hands of the master himself.

But let's not look ahead too much. Remember Hiroshi Yamauchi former president of Nintendo stepped down as president when he was 74 and was in the board untill he was 77 before he finally retired. Passionate businessmen don't stop untill their health tells them otherwise.

Let's all hope Miyamoto will live a long and healthy life. There is atleast 2 decades of gaming genius left in his head.

Don't make me think on Miyamoto's mortality ;_;

I don't know... Nintendo could handle ok, but they would be like dark ages of some sort. Until a new genius arrives of course.

One would think anyone who works with him would try to learn as much as possible. At the very least it is down right impossible to work with someone on a project like a video game and not rub off on each other. In the same way that his ideas and philosophy will live on in his peers, it is fair to say that Miyamoto is also a product of the companie's atmosphere. On that note, who knows, maybe the next Miyamoto already works for nintendo..we may or may not know his name and it could only be a matter of time until he shows us why he will be the Miyamoto of his generation.

One thing is for sure though, the influence of Miyamoto will be felt long after he retires and long after he dies.

Whole lotta bad. People will step up... but I mean... as I put in another thread... He's the Hulk Hogan of gaming.

Except... he's not later in his career and doesn't suck yet because they respect him so much they're keeping him going at the expense of new and better talent.

After he leaves, Nintendo won't be as good, will still probably be the best of the first party developers but I think they're reputation as the best developer in general would be at stake. I mean Miyamoto seems to have a hand and input in everything now a days.

Miyamoto is a great man and a valuable member of the Nintendo corporation, but he is not indispensible. He broke into gaming when few people were really doing it, and a small number of people would be able to competely control a game.

Those days are long gone.

He has not been more than a general supervisor and advisor on most games, including some of Nintendo's biggest titles, for more than a decade. He has thousands of people working under him - I am sure some of them are picking up what he has to teach them.

And with the way the industry has grown, the talent pool should also have grown proportionately. There will eventually be someone who will replace him (and if he's not in the organization now, I am sure Nintendo will find the green to lure him to their company).

The truth is, as of now, he probably has very little to do in the day to day operations or actual game developement. Nintendo is much too big of an empire for man to be doing all the game developement. He's like Stan Lee now of Marvel, just a public figure.

He is more like a quality assurance guy. He will play first/2nd party games (mario, zelda, metroid) and tell you exactly what to change and how to change it. He does this at every level of the development process. There are some interviews on Nintendo.com that talk about his day-to-day work in Twilight Princess.

 And his involvement in Mario.  Which while he still maintains creative control in pretty much every way he is very uninvolved with the decisions, but rather only in telling people "no this is wrong" or "there is something missing" etc...

Thats the impression i have gotten from tyhose interviews anyways.  They are pretty damn long if you read all of it but they are very worthwhile.