Miyamoto talks about what Nintendo would be like if he left the company

Legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto chatted with NPR about a range of topics including what Nintendo would be like without him. Mr. Miyamoto said that he believes the company would be the same as it is now as he said that all of the team have a shared vision about what makes a Nintendo game and that shared vision won’t change. He said that vision is shared by everyone from “the people on the executive team, creators within the company and also people who create Mario.” He concluded by saying “it’s not going to change.”

NPR: One day, Nintendo will be existing without you. What do you think Nintendo will be like without you?

MIYAMOTO: (Through interpreter) You know, I really feel like it’s not going to change. It’s probably going to be the same. There’s, you know, people on the executive team, creators within the company and also people who create Mario, they all have this sense of what it means to be Nintendo. And so it’s not like there’s a lot of different opinions that go back and forth. Everyone has an understanding, this kind of shared understanding, of what it is to be Nintendo. And so even when there’s new ideas that come up, there’s always the fact that it’s a new idea, but also the fact that, is it a new idea that really has the essence of Nintendo or not? And I think that’s something that, you know – we have this incredible shared vision, almost a little scary shared vision, about this. So I think there won’t – it’s not going to change.

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