‘Mario-creator Shigeru Miyamoto does step back from Nintendo update

In an interview with Wired magazine has Shigeru Miyamoto indicated to take a step back within Nintendo. The creator of various Nintendo icons wants younger developers to give some space. Nintendo denies the reports.

In an interview with the American magazine Wired makes game designer Shigeru Miyamoto is known to take a step back for Nintendo. He stressed that he remains active with the make of games, but no longer at the helm, wants to be part of large projects, with five years development time. Miyamoto indicates like to get back to little projects to work on and the younger developers at Nintendo have more space to want to give. The game designer hopes his new project in 2012 to begin, and within a year something to the audience.

Since the appearance of the interview with Wired denies Nintendo the news that Miyamoto a step back within the Japanese company. According to a spokesperson, there is a misunderstanding. Miyamoto is according to the company always plan in the long term to make space for younger developers, but a withdrawal would still not occur. The response from Nintendo, however, can also be dismissed as a harm reduction; immediately after the statements of Miyamoto outward, the decline in the share of Nintendo on the Japanese Nikkei index by approximately two percent.

The 59-year-old Miyamoto is an icon in the gaming industry. The Japanese invented the first Donkey Kong game in 1981, the game that Nintendo’s success was on the American gamesmarkt. In the years that followed, he thought of Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, F-Zero, Star Fox, and Pikmin, and he was involved in the development of various iterations and spin-offs of these games.

Update, 10-12 11:00: Chris Kohler, the editor of Wired that the interview had with Miyamoto, claims that there are no mistakes made in the article. Compared to the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal emphasizes Miyamoto that he has no plans to step back for Nintendo.