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Nintendo: Shut the f*** up, Miyamoto! photo

This is terrific. It's recently been revealed that legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has been served a gagging order from Nintendo, who have expressly forbidden the man from talking publicly about his hobbies.

Because Miyamoto's brain is worth millions to the market leading company there are fears that any clues as to how it works could leak an idea to the public forum too soon. Nintendo wants to keep their secret weapon's mind under lock and key, and with good reason.

Shigeru Miyamoto is famous for turning his hobbies and interests into software ideas. It was after deciding to start exercising more that Miyamoto created Wii Fit, and his love of puzzles developed into Brain Training. Shigeru is able to transform his daily activities into billions of dollars for his employers, dollars that Nintendo has no interest in sharing. 

So, don't expect Shigeru to be revealing his fondness for stamp collecting anytime soon. The Big N has no intention of letting that potential goldmine slip.


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mix's Avatar
mix at 08/09/2008 12:42
I hear he loves the relief that ensues from bowel movements.....new Wii game? DO WANT!
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Cowzilla3 at 08/09/2008 12:43
He should let slip fake hobbies, like he really enjoys mutilating kittens or something and then watch Microsoft release Kitten Stomping: The Stompening followed by Kitten Stomp 2: Stomp Harder.
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Myrmidon16 at 08/09/2008 12:46
o shit, miyamoto got out again!
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Blind assassin at 08/09/2008 12:52
This is certainly...interesting.
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Lime at 08/09/2008 12:56
Ahahaha, oh wow.
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Phoenix Gamma at 08/09/2008 12:56
I let out an actual "what?!" and shot forward when I saw that, all "goofy cutscene reaction shot"-like.

I'm surprised they're going this far, though. Say what you will about the man, but he's pretty smart, and I doubt he'd let anything silly slip. Unless, of course, this is because he say "Pikmin is coming. Peace out" at E3.
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slackermonkey at 08/09/2008 13:06
Wow...when I read that I thought I was reading an onion article
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XivSpew at 08/09/2008 13:09
So, the next big original IP from Nintendo is going to be about helping a wageslave break his corporate shackles, then?
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iSweat at 08/09/2008 13:12
They must be trying to hide the fact that Imaginationland really does exist inside his head.
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Mr Bas at 08/09/2008 13:14
Huh, what hobby inspired him to make Super Mario Bros?
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Trevor McGee at 08/09/2008 13:16
@ Mr Bas

That should be pretty obvious, mushrooms. He was tripping balls.
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ace of knaves at 08/09/2008 13:18
@Mr Bas
Doing shrooms, followed by turtle stomping. Actually, the shrooms would explain a lot more than that one game.
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bahss at 08/09/2008 13:19
Wii Box of Chocolates Announced!
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Mr Bas at 08/09/2008 13:24
Probably... poor turtles... I once that he made Zelda because he liked to explore caves around his hometown (and maybe slash two-story fiery gorons...)
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greeneggsnsam at 08/09/2008 13:26
This proves that Myamoto is making a new franchise.

Super gardening-land, anyone?

...oh yeah, he already said about Pikmin 3, didn't he?
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greeneggsnsam at 08/09/2008 13:27
This proves that Myamoto is making a new franchise.

Super gardening-land, anyone?

...oh yeah, he already said about Pikmin 3, didn't he?
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monosylabik at 08/09/2008 13:30
someday this is what I want. a multi billion dollar company worried that the competition is going to steal my thoughts.
but really though who is much interested in sasha grey fellating me while i play halo 3...new sims expansion pack?
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Im OK at 08/09/2008 13:40
Unless his hobby is "revealing Nintendo trade secrets" or something, how can they even do this? That's really strange.
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Im OK at 08/09/2008 13:44
Then again, I guess they're trying to say that him talking about his hobbies is revealing Nintendo trade secrets. That's still really strange.
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Daxelman at 08/09/2008 13:46
Steve Jobs is behind this.

I know it.
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StriderS at 08/09/2008 13:55
How dare they order their king like that?!
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AliasWyvernspur at 08/09/2008 13:57
GTA IV is making Miyamoto talk, BAN THIS SICK FILTH!
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Eschatos at 08/09/2008 14:18
That's just stupid. If I was him I'd quit.
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Foe at 08/09/2008 14:32
that could very well be the most stupid thing I've ever heard. Like someone is going to hear him say " I love fly fishing" and suddenly they have an amazing game that sells millions.

It sounds like someone is trying to justify their job.
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whormongr at 08/09/2008 14:57
what if miyamoto finds a fondness for diddling himself..... I am sure it would sell more wiis
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NihonTiger90 at 08/09/2008 15:05
I assume this also means Miyamoto will not be at PAX or any other press events, because that's where people seem to be chatting him up the most.

I am hugely disappointed in Nintendo. Yes, he makes his games based off his hobbies and interests, and yes, he does talk about them a lot, but for God's sake, you do not treat your star like this.
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parrothead at 08/09/2008 15:06
This is great
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Sharpless at 08/09/2008 15:45
Miyamoto's a wacky little fuck.
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Mxyzptlk at 08/09/2008 16:10
I heard one of Miyamoto's hobbies was making video games.
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Reeper at 08/09/2008 16:29
Does this mean Miyamoto's hobby at one time was jumping up broken steel beams while trying to rescue a princess from an angry gorilla who had an infinite supply of barrels and springs to throw at him?
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brainderailment at 08/09/2008 16:38
Wow, Nintendo = Assholes.
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Leathersoup at 08/09/2008 17:14
Heh... Poor Nintendo. They just don't get it. It's not that Miyamoto's particular hobby is any more interesting than any other hobby out there. It's the games that he makes based on the hobby.
He used gardening as inspiration to make Pikmen. Ok. What does Pikmen have to do with gardening? Very little. How would anyone have scooped them on that?
Paranoia is a dangerous tool... use it wisely :P
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dprime at 08/09/2008 18:09
Leathersoup is very right.

I mean, do you think if I lived in his era and saw an apple fall, I'd think of gravity like Newton? (I've heard that story's a myth but it's a good analogy.) Miyamoto isn't a genius because he has a range of hobbies that are fantastic for inspiring games. It's because he has the brain that take those hobbies and use them as a catalyst to think of great games. I bet he could think of an amazing game inspired by stamp collecting. But he's the essential factor there, not the stamp collecting.
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GummyTumor at 08/09/2008 18:56
That's just plain strange.. it makes it seem like Nintendo has Miyamoto on constant surveillance. "He's thinking about something!!.. Oh, wait, that was just gas.."
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Tactics at 08/09/2008 19:48
Perhaps Miyamoto is into lolita hentai. What? He is Japanaese after all.
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vexed alex at 08/09/2008 20:49
Shit. Working for Nintendo means you loose your freedom of speech?
mistic's Avatar
mistic at 08/09/2008 21:02
funny stuff :-)
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Murumasa123 at 08/10/2008 00:15
No Vexed Alex working for Nintendo means you loose your SOUL!
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Springsteen at 08/10/2008 10:06
Hiroshi Yamauchi is slowly and steadily making its way back to the top chair, lying and deceiving and passing ludicrous orders while cleverly desguised as Grima Wormtongue, in his last attempt to take over the world and regain Miyamoto's and the industry's reins under his command.

Seriously, what the hell? Maybe they're making a new console capable of translating EVERY move AND thought of yours. Which would make anything that Miyamoto says regarding any activity of body or thought he engages on a total giveaway.
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savagesaladin at 08/10/2008 10:34
Is there no freedom of speech in Japan? Does Nintendo own Miyamoto? This is dumb. Fuck Nintendo. Without Miyamoto Nintendo would still be making trading cards and boardgames.
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burgerdog at 08/10/2008 12:16
People have known he likes to garden for years now, but I have yet to see a decent ripoff of anything he's ever done.
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pendelton21 at 08/11/2008 00:18
Wow...Nintendo now has their golden child's BRAIN under lock and key? WTF, seriously...
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