Miyamoto Talks About His Eventual Retirement

Legendary game developer Sir Shigeru Miyamoto

The day will come, when legendary game developer Shigeru Miyamoto will have to retire. During a recent interview with GameSpot, Miyamoto said that he was already preparing the rest of his co-workers at Nintendo for his eventual retirement. He is doing this by trying to get his workers to take matters into their own hands and try to please the consumer instead of him.

Check out what Miyamoto said in his interview below:
   

“This year I’m past 60; I’m going to be turning 61 this year. So for me to not be thinking about retirement would be strange. But in fact, the number of projects I’m involved in–and the volume of my work–hasn’t changed at all.

Instead, what we’re doing internally is, on the assumption that there may someday be a time when I’m no longer there, and in order for the company to prepare for that, what I’m doing is pretending like I’m not working on half the projects that I would normally be working on to try to get the younger staff to be more involved.

And this actually has nothing to do with any kind of retirement planning or anything of that sort, it’s really more of simply the fact that people have a tendency, certainly when you’re in an organizational structure, they have a tendency to always look to the person that gives them direction. And really, for a long time I’ve been thinking that we need to try to break that structure down so that the individual producers that I’m working with are really taking responsibility for the projects that they’re working on.”