Shigeru Miyamoto Archive

My days aren’t complete until I hear more of Miyamoto’s excruciatingly interesting hints that a new Nintendo franchise is on its way. Two years ago he announced that he was working on a new character and only this month he hinted that he was working on small but important projects for the Wii U. Now, in an [...]

In an interview with Edge magazine, Shigeru Miyamoto shared his thoughts on the future of F-Zero. His words seemed to dispel any possibility of another entry in the popular racing  series  for this generation of consoles, but Miyamoto’s words seem to hint that a Wii U version may be a more likely possibility. with Wii [...]

News for Pikmin 3 on the Wii U has been released by Miyamoto, via Kotaku’s press contact at Nintendo: In a recent interview, Mr. Miyamoto confirmed that a new Pikmin game will be shown at the E3 Expo in June. He believes that anyone who has played Pikmin games in the past will enjoy playing. This confirmation is [...]

A recent interview with Miyamoto sheds some light on near-future projects for the Wii U, who believes that the new features of the device are not “readily replicated by another device ” which means Nintendo is expected to have the upper leg on the competition in this generation of gaming. It is also rumored and highly expected Nintendo [...]

Pikmin 3 is one of the most anticipated games coming to the Wii U. We haven’t got that much information on the game beyond that it started life as a Wii title; but while speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Shigeru Miyamoto has said that he is enjoying working on it: Originally, I was making Pikmin 3 [...]

At Nintendo’s last investor relations meeting, Miyamoto pointed out that the Wii U isn’t “just about better graphics,” which should hopefully be quite clear considering the console’s true strength lies in its versatile controller. But that doesn’t mean graphics don’t carry any weight for him – in fact, Miyamoto expressed that visuals will be very [...]

Retro Studios, Nintendo’s prize Western studio, just wrapped up Mario Kart 7, a collaborative project between them and Nintendo EAD. What’s next for the house that brought us Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country Returns? Miyamoto is confident at this point that Retro has what it takes to handle a new Zelda adventure as a new, [...]

In addition to practically confirming that a Wii Fit game is coming to the Wii U, Miyamoto hinted very strongly in a recent Iwata Asks interview that the controller’s camera would be capable of Kinect-style full-body tracking. Miyamoto: I can’t really talk about it in detail, but we’re working on new ways to do training [...]

Nintendo have published an Iwata Asks interview they conducted with Miyamoto focusing on the Wii U. If you’re in the loop with the blog, you probably won’t find any major surprises in there. However, it’s a good piece of reading that provides a great recap on the design philosophy behind the Wii U – “deeper [...]

While speaking to the French website écrans Shigeru Miyamoto explained that he was less involved in the development of the Wii U than he was with Nintendo’s two previous consoles. He was directly involved in the development of the Wii and GameCube systems but this time around he took a more advisory role. “For the GameCube and [...]