It can’t have escaped anybody’s attention that Nintendo’s focus has shifted dramatically since the release of the Wii and its mainstream appeal. Nobody in Nintendo seems to have embraced the changes more than legendary game creator Shigeru Miyamoto, either. In a recent interview, the industry icon confirmed that his way of working these days is very different.
No doubt addressing his more recent “games” such Wii Fit and Wii Music, Miyamoto talked about how his creative freedom has allowed him to make “anything” into a videogame:
I have a much greater degree of freedom. In the past, I would develop a game and then finish it and the next question is always: What is the next game we would create? In recent years, I’ve really found that with this idea of applying the structure of video games in a variety of ways, I’ve found anything can be a video game, and I’ve found a greater degree creative freedom in what I want to do next and explore.
Yeah Shigs, anything can be a videogame. Apart from … apparently … your games.
