Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto recently indicated to Wired that he's planning to step down from his current role so that he can focus on smaller projects. While Nintendo denied it, Wired is sticking to its story, and now we have further comments from Miyamoto in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal.
The report said that Miyamoto noted "he is very healthy and isn’t planning to retire any time soon." The man behind some of Nintendo's greatest games and project ideas also remarked that Nintendo is certainly aware that he will retire one day, and the company "has created organization structures and a culture it thinks will be able to infuse his type of thoughtful yet fun designs into its products long after he is gone." [Note: these are quotes from WSJ, not Miyamoto himself - Ed.]
“We have to construct the structure so that the organization...can make it without me,” Miyamoto commented. “I should also admit that it might be better without me; I mean that a different approach and different talent might emerge, though I shouldn’t dwell on this because then the article might indeed say ‘Mr. Miyamoto is thinking about retiring,’ because that is not the case.”
The WSJ article did reiterate, however, Miyamoto's desire to work on "small ideas that, he said, could blossom into bigger games as time goes on."
