Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Nintendo's most prestigious IPs, everyone knows who he is. At least on the gaming community. But a lot of people know him as the Creator of everyone's favorite Italian plumber "Mario".
Now, in recent interview with the French Website
Gamekult, Shigeru Miyamoto stated that
"Creating a Mario of 3D World's calibre demands enormous energy and there is little chance that I'd be able to take the time necessary to work on the next Mario. Instead, I want to get involved more heavily in the development of new, smaller-scale projects, but that doesn't necessarily mean just modest downloadable titles. It's not impossible that I'll present a new game as principal creator in the future, but even though I'm not directly in charge of a project, I'm always keeping an eye on what the teams are doing in terms of gameplay and I have confidence in them
Don't worry about Mario!"
Of course, with this information now out. A lot of Nintendo fans (and non fans) have been freaking out by writing or v-logging about this, saying stuff along the lines of "Nintendo is doomed" or "The industry is going to crumble to it's last breath". Obviously that is far from the case, while Shigeru Miyamoto is no doubt a big piece for Nintendo. Now just because Miyamoto is stepping away from the beloved Mario franchise, it doesn't spell the end in Nintendo, and there is several factors that support this.
Shigeru Miyamoto mentions that he's stepping down from big projects like the new "Cat Suit Mario 2013" (it's a joke, calm down), he is still going to be working on smaller scale games but it does not restrain itself to only downloadable titles. This is a very good thing, as much i love Nintendo a lot of their games are Copy-paste with some minor game-play tweaks and sometimes different settings. Now that's not saying they are not fun because trust me they are but with the current state of the Wii U's sales and the lack of interest from other gamers this is bad.
Shigeru Miyamoto could start helping the development of new IPs to spring interest to other people, or heck like he mentioned, even himself create a new one. Also getting new blood to Nintendo would be great!
Nintendo give us fans stuff to be interested in so they get your awesome new console, that quite honestly has a lot of potential. Give us a new F Zero, a new old school Metroid or a prime, a new Legend of Zelda with more uses for the items, more exploration, and some good skillful game-play, a new Mario rpg, a new Chrono game and there's so much more you could do Nintendo.
Onward Nintendo! The princess is in another castle and you must evolve to save her!
Have a Good Day!
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