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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12:43 PM on 08.09.2008
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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.
That should be pretty obvious, mushrooms. He was tripping balls.
Doing shrooms, followed by turtle stomping. Actually, the shrooms would explain a lot more than that one game.
Super gardening-land, anyone?
...oh yeah, he already said about Pikmin 3, didn't he?
Super gardening-land, anyone?
...oh yeah, he already said about Pikmin 3, didn't he?
but really though who is much interested in sasha grey fellating me while i play halo 3...new sims expansion pack?
I know it.
It sounds like someone is trying to justify their job.
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.
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
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.
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.