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Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa and company legend Shigeru Miyamoto addressed some hot topics regarding their future in virtual reality, and blamed extensive research for delays.
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Japan
(COK • Ko Shiota • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Shuntaro Furukawa • technology • video games)

Hollywood producer talks about upcoming new Super Mario movie, doesn’t make it sound not terrible

Casey Baseel
Nov 7, 2018

Even with Mario’s creator “front and center” in the movie-making process, this could go very wrong.

Japan, USA
(Illumination Entertainment • movies • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Super Mario • video games)

New manga to reveal secrets of creation of Pokémon

Richard Simmonds
Apr 26, 2018

The story of the man who brought us Pikachu and countless other fantastical creatures to feature in an educational manga next month.

Japan
(anime • manga • nintendo • Pikachu • Pokemon • Satoshi Tajiri • Shigeru Miyamoto • video games)

Shigeru Miyamoto’s reason for not creating Wario and Waluigi’s love interests is… kind of mean?

Scott Wilson
Sep 7, 2017

Where are the “evil” versions of Princess Peach and Daisy?

Internet
(girlfriend • Mario • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • waluigi • wario)

Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto performs Mario theme with hip hop’s The Roots 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 9, 2016

Legends of video game design and music team up for awesome live performance.

Japan, USA
(cool • Jimmy Fallon • music • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Super Mario Bros. • The Roots • The Tonight Show • video • video games)

Nintendo announces its Universal Studios attractions are coming to the U.S. too!【Video】

Casey Baseel
Nov 30, 2016

Shigeru Miyamoto promises fun for theme park guests not just in Japan, but also California and Florida.

Japan, USA
(Amusement Parks • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan • video • video games)

Mario creator demonstrates Super Mario Run gameplay in new video

Corey Gold
Sep 15, 2016

The original creator of Mario shows us how easy it is to play Nintendo’s first smartphone game, Super Mario Run.

Japan
(gameplay • Luigi • Mario • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Super Mario • Super Mario Run)

The reason why Nintendo’s Super Mario smartphone game won’t have in-app purchases is brilliant

Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2016

It seems that, as always, game designer Shigeru Miyamoto knows exactly what he’s doing.

Global, Japan
(Mario • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Smartphones • Suoer Mario • Super Mario Run • video games)

Meet Miyamoto and win $10,000 by submitting your Nintendo t-shirt design to UNIQLO 【Video】

Scott Wilson
Jul 5, 2016

If you love Nintendo and making art, then this is the chance you’ve been waiting for!

Japan
(art • contest • design • nintendo • NX • Shigeru Miyamoto • Uniqlo)

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto wanted everyone to kiss and make up at the end of GoldenEye

KK Miller
Oct 28, 2015

Nintendo’s last cartridge-based home console, the Nintendo 64, was home to a long list of games that no doubt played a big part in many of our lives, and none more so than GoldenEye 007. A first-person shooter that followed the storyline of the James Bond movie of the same name, GoldenEye’s all-guns-blazing split-screen multiplayer mode made and broke many a friendship over the years, and was considered the epitome of fun in back in 1997 when it launched.

But the game was an odd choice to appear exclusively on a console made by Nintendo—a company with a reputation for squeaky-clean fun and family-friendly software. And it turns out that the violent nature of GoldenEye was a matter of deep concern for Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s most influential director and producer and the creator of Super Mario. So much, in fact, that he suggested an alternate ending to the game: one where everyone shook hands and made up.

Global, Japan
(007 • James Bond • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • video games • violence in video games)

8 things we learned from Nintendo’s Q&A video with Shigeru Miyamoto 【Video】

Jamie Koide
Sep 17, 2015

Perhaps the best thing to come out of the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. is the all-new Super Mario Maker. Released just last week on September 11, the game aims to bring the original level-making tool used by programmers at Nintendo to all audiences.

Not only has the new release encouraged Shigeru Miyamoto, the mastermind behind Mario, to speak about how the beginning of the original NES game was created, it’s also given fans the opportunity to hear Miyamoto answer questions about the Mario world fans have been dying to know for 30 years.

Internet, Japan
(nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Super Mario Bros. • video • video games • YouTube)

Miyamoto: Pikmin 4 is ‘very close to completion’

Anime News Network
Sep 10, 2015

Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto revealed in an interview with video game news website Eurogamer that the Pikmin 4 game is “very close to completion.”

Global, Japan
(news • nintendo • Pikmin 4 • Shigeru Miyamoto • video games)

Super Mario Bros. creator explains how and why he designed World 1-1 of the 8-bit classic 【Video】

Philip Kendall
Sep 9, 2015

Ahead of the launch of Mario-themed level-building game Super Mario Maker, video game industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto sat down with veteran game designer Takashi Tezuka to take questions from journalists and show off its features.

Before leaping into the level creation proper, however, Miyamoto took a few minutes to talk about the creative process that is involved in building a Super Mario level, talking his audience through the steps he and his team took when creating the original Super Mario Bros., and explaining why World 1-1 of the game—for many their first ever brush with Mario on Nintendo’s 8-bit system—was built the way it is.

You’ve no doubt cleared this level countless times by now, but you may not have realised the hidden genius and careful planning that went into the positioning of every block, pipe, and pit of doom.

Global
(level design • nintendo • Shigeru Miyamoto • Super Mario Bros. • Super Mario Maker • video • video games)

Did Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto just call casual gamers “pathetic”? Well, yes and no

Philip Kendall
Aug 29, 2014

In the latest issue of long-running UK gaming magazine Edge, industry legend and creator of Super Mario Bros. Shigeru Miyamoto sits down to talk about the direction in which Nintendo is heading. During the interview, which spans several pages and touches upon subjects ranging from upcoming title Splatoon to the lack of young talent at the company, the veteran game designer is quoted as saying that casual gamers are “pathetic” for not wanting to delving and getting the most out of video games.

A handful of gaming news sites immediately leapt on this statement and ran with it, hinting that Nintendo may be about to turn their backs on the very people who made products like the Nintendo DS and Wii the hits they were. But did Miyamoto honestly just diss the casual gaming public? We really don’t think so.