"Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World" New Yorker Interview

[namekuseijin]

Miyamoto: It’s important for parents to play the games, to understand why the child can’t quit until reaching the next save point

oh, but they do play your games for kids, indeed. Even the ones without kids.

 

[JLB]

this meme will never ever get old.

 

[GAMETA]

Great interview. Miyamoto is great.

 

[RoyalLaFlame]

Miyamoto

 

[Lionel Richie]

B-B-But his biggest fan, Lionel Richie , said he wants the world to be forcefully vaccinated

Well to be fair in a kinder world there's not any misrepresentative talk about forceful vaccination. That wasn't very KIND of you

 

[oagboghi2]

I wonder ..



It's worth reading the whole thing and maybe in your head replacing Disney with Miaymoto/Nintendo .. just hypothetically

God, it's like you people enjoy being miserable

 

[Lethal01]

Miyamoto: It’s important for parents to play the games, to understand why the child can’t quit until reaching the next save point

oh, but they do play your games for kids, indeed. Even the ones without kids.

I do love me some Mario kart.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Time for the man to retire

 

[Black_Stride]

From the title and being way too tired.

I thought he was retiring from videogames to make a chocolate themepark willy wonka style.

 

[Cutty Flam]

Evangelion Unit-01 am I right to be somewhat upset about this? Shigeru Miyamoto only makes 1.7 million each year and has a net worth of 40 million....

Something has to be off, how can he only have earned that much, when he created several dozen characters that have heavily influenced gaming as a whole? He created Mario...Mario is probably the most famous character of all time, around the world. I thought I was going to see something crazy like 800 million or that he alone made 17 million dollars off Mario and Yoshi plushies alone this decade...

He’s well off and rich as hell, and money isn’t all that important in the grand scheme of things, but I’m totally confused as to how this legend hasn’t amassed hundreds of millions off of royalties alone

 

[Bragr]

Evangelion Unit-01 am I right to be somewhat upset about this? Shigeru Miyamoto only makes 1.7 million each year and has a net worth of 40 million....

Something has to be off, how can he only have earned that much, when he created several dozen characters that have heavily influenced gaming as a whole? He created Mario...Mario is probably the most famous character of all time, around the world. I thought I was going to see something crazy like 800 million or that he alone made 17 million dollars off Mario and Yoshi plushies alone this decade...

He’s well off and rich as hell, and money isn’t all that important in the grand scheme of things, but I’m totally confused as to how this legend hasn’t amassed hundreds of millions off of royalties alone

Japan is very different than USA in that regard, the company gets the earnings, even if his work have produced billions for Nintendo.

 

[Enzo88]

When the GOAT talks i shut the fuck up and listen.
Also you already did Shiggy, you already did.

 

[x@3f*oo_e!]

God, it's like you people enjoy being miserable

I'm not miserable. Sorry for suggesting you think about public vs private personas for a moment.

 

[Woopah]

so am I the only one who thought he wants to make a theme park based on this based on the thread title?

This was also my first reaction.... even though I'd already read the interview.

 

[Blue Spring]

Retard poster expecting kindness for retarded posts. Easy to blame I know.

You wanted to prove me right that badly ?

 

[Fredrik]

What a legend

I like his ideas, negativity and hate feeds negativity and hate so I wish devs wouldn’t spend so much time making violence look more real and brutal and instead focused on inventing new gameplay ideas that makes people happy and don’t end with brutal death scenes and chopped heads and limbs.

I’m turning 45, back in my youth there were a lot more big games without human kills (those filthy space aliens certainly got us trigger happy though) but now if feels like it’s mostly smaller indie titles that go that route. Like Ori and Astrobot etc. As a parent the result is that I have to hide from the family when I play AAA games or have to play late at night when everyone is asleep. It’s getting tiresome.

But I really don’t like Nintendo’s current focus on weak portable hardware though. I’d love to see the Mario Galaxy team go bananas and create something cool for a beastly powerful box!

 

[McCheese]

Seeing his child-like smile on his theme park tour reminded me that there is some good in the world still.

Miyamoto

(Even if he is an ass to work for a lot of the time)

 

[V4skunk]

Nintendo are evil. They never drop their game prices and re-sell the same remade games for several generations over and over.

They aren't nice, they are expensive and take advantage of parents like Disney does.

At least when i buy my over priced Nintendo game i can sell it for 3/4 of retail price instead of £3-4.

 

[Meesh]

At least when i buy my over priced Nintendo game i can sell it for 3/4 of retail price instead of £3-4.

Nintendo games retain some good value for sure!

 

[Tesseract]

kindness is fine, frailty is not good

miyamoto is a damned legend, hard to slight him for wanting a better world

 

[Evangelion Unit-01]

Evangelion Unit-01 am I right to be somewhat upset about this? Shigeru Miyamoto only makes 1.7 million each year and has a net worth of 40 million....

Something has to be off, how can he only have earned that much, when he created several dozen characters that have heavily influenced gaming as a whole? He created Mario...Mario is probably the most famous character of all time, around the world. I thought I was going to see something crazy like 800 million or that he alone made 17 million dollars off Mario and Yoshi plushies alone this decade...

He’s well off and rich as hell, and money isn’t all that important in the grand scheme of things, but I’m totally confused as to how this legend hasn’t amassed hundreds of millions off of royalties alone

It's not too unusual. Thats how most creatives work. When he invented Mario, Zelda, etc he was working for Nintendo so they own all of the properties. It's similar to Stan Lee at Marvel-they're salary employees and can't collect royalties because they don't own the characters they create. Its also a situation where neither Nintendo nor Miyamoto knew that he would go on to create something as big as Mario-he was just a normal employee at one point. Most Nintendo execs don't make a ton of money; they could probably negotiate higher salaries but I think they are the type people that genuinely love what they do and make more than enough to live very comfortably. Now if he ever decided to go work for Sony or Microsoft I'm sure he could negotiate royalties on whatever he created. Usually when royalties are involved its when a creator shops a property he/she has created independently out to a studio or when a well regarded creative is moving to a new company/role.

kindness is fine, frailty is not good

miyamoto is a damned legend, hard to slight him for wanting a better world

Well said.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Nintendo is... different. Maybe it’s an old-school Japanese philosophy, but it reminds me of a family business in that each employee puts the business above themselves, and considers it their pride and joy.

That’s why you have so many lifers at the company. So many people that could switch, and get an instant huge payday, but consider what they’re building to be more important. Or something like the execs all taking massive cuts when the Wii U was in trouble, to minimally effect the company and jobs, when you don’t really see that kind of thing in the west.

I 100% believe Miyamoto would rather that capital went to Nintendo, for business opportunities, investments, and lean times. At this point, he’s had such a transformative effect on it that it’s also less his employer, and more his baby, his life’s work and contribution to the world.

 

[entremet]

Then free Melee and stop mandating Paper Mario ffs.

Miyamoto is a Creative Fellow. He doesn't control any of this.

 

[MagnesG]

You wanted to prove me right that badly ?

Victim culture at its finest. Must've been nurtured for a long time.

 

[Blue Spring]

Victim culture at its finest. Must've been nurtured for a long time.

The fuck are you talking about? Stop quoting me to post some dumb shit.

 

[MagnesG]

The fuck are you talking about? Stop quoting me to post some dumb shit.

Stop blaming someone when you posted dumb shit then. Own up your shit for once.

 

[Blue Spring]

Stop blaming someone when you posted dumb shit then. Own up your shit for once.

I can only repeat myself.
The fuck are you talking about? Stop quoting me to post some dumb shit.

 

[MagnesG]

I can only repeat myself.
The fuck are you talking about? Stop quoting me to post some dumb shit.

Lol, it's the ignorance phase now. I know it's embarrassing but your posts are not going anywhere.

I'll back off for now, don't worry.

 

[Blue Spring]

Lol, it's the ignorance phase now. I know it's embarrassing but your posts are not going anywhere.

I'll back off for now, don't worry.

I hope you get the help you need.

 

[MagnesG]

I hope you get the help you need.

Lol. We're back to counter emoting now? I thought you're gonna be ignorant to the end. That's good progress I'm glad.

Maybe next time you properly own up to it I guess, don't be a fucking joke acting like victim pussy for your own dumb post. You hear me?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Keiichiro Toyama

Who?

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Who?

A great genius.

Every person with a common sense know it.

 

[Kumomeme]

not perfecting the old but discovering the new.

nice word from him. it is fresh to learn about his deep context of game design.

 

[kyussman]

Yea,Nintendo games don't appeal to me personally.....but it's great to have a child/family friendly company like them around.They are a great entry point into video games too,which the industry needs.