They are trying too hard.
He's not an artist. Check your history, He's an industrial design graduate.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
Can designers be considered artists? Some of my friends are designers BTW

| alfredofroylan said: Can designers be considered artists? Some of my friends are designers BTW |
Personally, I find the word "artist" carries with it a ridiculous pretense. I think it's fucking ridiculous that musicians want to be called "artists" now and if someone ever tried to apply the term "artist" to my chosen field of design, I'd firmly correct them.
As an aside, an artist who isn't starving isn't really an artist at all.
Miyamoto isn't an "artist" unless he works in the art department, like a 3D artist, texture artist, etc.
In the development field, the word "artist" denotes a very specific portion of a dev team.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
Not if you say hes not a programmer or designer. And then infer that just being an artist isn't satisfactory and that he is infact just an artist. He is not
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
Damn.. why do some hate so much? this game will make 10+million people happy..it will make Nintendo happy... it will make Miyamoto happy.. and this happy Miyamoto will make a new zelda or mario... which will turn out great = everybody happy..
Show love people!







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| NiKKoM said: Damn.. why do some hate so much? this game will make 10+million people happy..it will make Nintendo happy... it will make Miyamoto happy.. and this happy Miyamoto will make a new zelda or mario... which will turn out great = everybody happy.. Show love people! |
Making Mario doesn't make Miyamoto happy anymore. Only the Wii series does. Can't you read NiKKoM? It's doom and gloom for Nintendo fans! The apocalypse is near, casuals will enslave gamers and the end result will be death by snoo snoo. Only the Wii series will be left as Mario and Link both go to Sony and Microsoft begging to be reborn!
Miyamoto is an artist, he is the god damned Leonardo Davinci of gaming / interactive devices and software.
The greatest artists are normally messed up anyway, fine line btween genious and insanity, let him run wild i say.
And about him not playing games, wasn't he playin Shaun white and Killzone 2 at E3 this year. He's full of shit, we know that.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
@Megaman: If i recall, Miyamoto is industrial designer only because his father forced him to get an education. What Miyamoto wanted to be, was a slacker who plays his guitar all day long (now that he's an executive, it looks like his father caused his dream to come true).
@Smash Brother: Actually, directors are artists too.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
Onyxmeth said:
Making Mario doesn't make Miyamoto happy anymore. Only the Wii series does. Can't you read NiKKoM? It's doom and gloom for Nintendo fans! The apocalypse is near, casuals will enslave gamers and the end result will be death by snoo snoo. Only the Wii series will be left as Mario and Link both go to Sony and Microsoft begging to be reborn!
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LOL... Just wait untill you are waving your wiimote as a baton playing







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