• @Jomega
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    018 hours ago

    Miyamoto is not the current president of Nintendo and hasn’t been for a while. These days he’s a guy who walks into your office to see what you’re doing with the characters he created 35 years ago and says “good job” or “nah, I don’t think that fits the spirit of the series”. Blaming him for corporate policy is somewhat nonsensical.

    • @[email protected]
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      214 hours ago

      Afaik he was never the president unless you count a couple of months after iwata died as co-interim president

    • @ampersandrew
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      215 hours ago

      He also mentors the new class. From the New York Times:

      Shigeru Miyamoto has been making the same request of all new employees at Nintendo for at least the past decade: For the love of all things Super Mario, please design games that might sell 30 million copies.