New York Times: Miyamoto is awesome

by JC Fletcher { May 25th 2008 at 12:00PM }

The latest interview to come out of Shigeru Miyamoto's New York press meetings is with the New York Times, who, rather than just asking about Wii Fit, chose to profile the man behind the haircut. Accordingly, most of their article is a historical look at just how great Miyamoto is, and how influential he has been to game development, with supporting quotes from Game Informer's Andy McNamara and Disney Interactive's Graham Hopper.

The most interesting bit is when Miyamoto discusses his game design influences. We've all heard how gardening inspired Pikmin and a scale led to Wii Fit. Miyamoto acknowledges that this is somewhat of a change from his previous game design process: "Whereas before I could kind of use my own imagination to create these worlds or create these games, I would say that over the last five years I've had more of a tendency to take interests or topics in my life and try to draw the entertainment out of that." Coming next year -- Wii Make Games!

Tags: exercise, miyamoto, wii-fit

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Char6296 @ May 25th 2008 12:35PM

Wii Make Games, lol, FTW.

Ryan P. @ May 25th 2008 8:12PM

i have to second that.

"Coming next year -- Wii Make Games!"

I got tears laughing from that. omg.

Spekkio @ May 25th 2008 1:08PM

Oh, awesome.

GatorSax2010 @ May 25th 2008 1:29PM

That was a great article. I've always thought that Miyamoto and Walt Disney were very similar.

Jay @ May 25th 2008 2:04PM

I never thought of comparing Shiggy to Walt Disney (which is weird since I'm almost as big a Disney nerd as I am a Nintendo ned) but its really true.

There's really no logical way to explain why the things they created became what they are....the just did (maybe pixie dust)