Shigeru Miyamoto Announces Retirement from Game Development

Nintendo's main creative force, Shigeru Miyamoto, has kind of announced his retirement from games development via an interview this week.

The Zelda and Mario creator states:

"Inside our office, I’ve been recently declaring, ‘I’m going to retire, I’m going to retire," he goes onto clarify.

"I’m not saying that I’m going to retire from game development altogether. What I mean by retiring is, retiring from my current position.”

His current position is "Senior Managing Director, General Manager, Entertainment Analysis & Development Division."

He then confuses matters by stating, “What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself."

By this he means, "Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small.”

“In other words, I’m not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time."

According to Wired Miyamoto is "hoping to start work on a project in 2012, and hopefully show the game off publicly within the year."

So, why has he made such as confusing statement? Progress is why:

“The reason why I’m stressing that is that unless I say that I’m retiring, I cannot nurture the young developers.

“After all, if I’m there in my position as it is, then there’s always kind of a relationship. And the young guys are always kind of in a situation where they have to listen to my ideas. But I need some people who are growing up much more than today.”

Source: Wired