Category: Nintendo

Shigeru Miyamoto Isn’t Really Thinking About Retiring

His focus is on Nintendo’s future.

Japanese video game creator Shigeru Miyamoto isn’t getting any younger, so what exactly are his plans regarding retirement?

The Guardian recently asked the Nintendo legend if he was “ever tempted” to call time on his outstanding career and although he’s been at the company since its arcade era, he’s apparently got “no plans to do so”. He’s more focused on the future of the company and the scenario where he needs to “pass things on” to someone.

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Talking Point: Along With Joy-Con Drift, What Does Nintendo Have To ‘Fix’ With ‘Switch 2’?

Reset Switch.

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. We finish up with a look ahead into the (hopefully near) future. Enjoy!

Switch, eh? You think it’s had its final bookend game and then another all-timer comes along to extend the library. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom looked like the perfect finale for an extraordinary console that kicked off with Breath of the Wild, but then Nintendo goes and puts out the best 2D Mario in 30 years with Super Mario Wonder. And between those and continuing into 2024, you’ve got fantastic games like Pikmin 4, Super Mario RPG, and (hopefully) the upcoming Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake extending the bookshelf even further. It’s a heck of a console with an extraordinary library that Just. Keeps. Going.

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