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Miyamoto Preparing Nintendo For His Eventual Retirement

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Legendary games developer Shigeru Miyamoto has told GameSpot that he is currently preparing the rest of Nintendo for his eventual retirement. Miyamoto wouldn’t say exactly when he would retire, but he said that he’s getting younger staff more involved in the development process. Shigeru Miyamoto is currently 60 and will turn 61 in November. Here’s what he had to say about future planning within Nintendo.

“This year I’m past 60; I’m going to be turning 61 this year. So for me to not be thinking about retirement would be strange. But in fact, the number of projects I’m involved in–and the volume of my work–hasn’t changed at all.”

“Instead, what we’re doing internally is, on the assumption that there may someday be a time when I’m no longer there, and in order for the company to prepare for that, what I’m doing is pretending like I’m not working on half the projects that I would normally be working on to try to get the younger staff to be more involved.

“And this actually has nothing to do with any kind of retirement planning or anything of that sort, it’s really more of simply the fact that people have a tendency, certainly when you’re in an organizational structure, they have a tendency to always look to the person that gives them direction,” Miyamoto said. “And really, for a long time I’ve been thinking that we need to try to break that structure down so that the individual producers that I’m working with are really taking responsibility for the projects that they’re working on.”

Nintendo Is Preparing For Miyamoto’s Departure

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made it clear that Shigeru Miyamoto is not yet retiring but Nintendo is preparing for when he eventually retires. Iwata says, “Mr. Miyamoto still will be actively creating things but we are working for the transition of power to go to younger people at the same time.” Nintendo is preparing “competent replacements” for Nintendo directors who will get “too old to be able to continue their current positions.”

“Mr. Miyamoto still will be actively creating things but we are working for the transition of power to go to younger people at the same time. Naturally the directors here will inevitably become too old to be able to continue their current positions someday and Nintendo might decrease its competitiveness without competent replacements. We are proceeding with preparations to avoid that situation.”

Miyamoto Says Nintendo Must Prepare For His Retirement

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Whilst Nintendo firmly squashed those Miyamoto retirement rumours that infiltrated the web last year, the man himself has told El Mundo that Nintendo must prepare themselves for his eventual retirement. Miyamoto told the publication that he’s currently in the process of giving the talented individuals who work under him much more responsibilities.

“We all get older. I’m already about to turn 60,”

“In recent years I’ve been telling people within Nintendo [that] I’ll have to retire at some point. We must be prepared. That’s why I given more responsibility to younger colleagues.”