wraggster
December 8th, 2011, 22:45
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator and producer of the Zelda and Mario franchises among other works, is stepping down at Nintendo (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/12/nintendos-miyamoto-stepping-down-working-on-smaller-games.ars). After personally managing Nintendo's blockbuster franchises for ~20 years, Miyamoto said today: 'What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself. Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small.'"Update: 12/08 21:35 GMT by T (http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/) : Note that Nintendo is careful to say that this is not retirement (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57339320-501465/shigeru-miyamoto-rumors-of-retirement-not-true-says-nintendo-updated/), even if Miyamoto's role at Nintendo changes.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/153253/miyamoto-steps-down-as-nintendo-game-design-head
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/08/153253/miyamoto-steps-down-as-nintendo-game-design-head