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Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary creator of Mario and Zelda, has been making major headlines this week as he continues to redefine his role at Nintendo. In a newly published interview with Japan’s Casa Brutus, highlighted by VGC and Nintendo Life, Miyamoto confirmed he is now stepping even further back from hands-on Mario game development. While he remains the final “seal of approval,” he entrusts the day-to-day direction to Nintendo’s younger developers and now only plays the first 30 minutes of each Mario title to ensure it still feels fundamentally right. This is a generational changing of the guard at Nintendo—Miyamoto, at 72, is mentoring successors and guiding them in preserving the soul of Mario even while stepping aside from the creative driver seat.
Despite these changes, Miyamoto is by no means retiring. He is pivoting his energies toward broader initiatives, including an increasing involvement in Mario’s multimedia universe. The biggest immediate project: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. In his own words, Miyamoto describes this long-awaited sequel as being in its final stages of production and is quoted by both Videogames Chronicle and MyNintendoNews as saying confidently, “I’ll keep working on it until it becomes fun, so that alone should tell you how confident I am.” The film, set for release in April 2026, again teams Nintendo and Illumination Studios—fresh off the $1.3 billion global success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie—and is rumored to introduce new iconic characters. Miyamoto sees these movies, as he noted during a Nintendo investor Q and A, as a way to build Nintendo’s legacy for generations and reach new fans worldwide, but he emphasizes that Nintendo wants to collaborate rather than simply expand in numbers.
Business activities also see Miyamoto engaged with Nintendo’s evolving content strategy. As confirmed in Nintendo’s official Q and A transcript, he’s directly involved in expanding Nintendo’s presence in film and video, and has overseen aspects of Super Nintendo World theme park expansions in Japan, Hollywood, and Florida. His approach is methodical and humble. Miyamoto says that even with blockbuster movie revenues or hardware milestones, the core Nintendo philosophy remains: Stay humble, value creativity, and never stop innovating.
On social media, the response has included an outpouring of tributes celebrating Miyamoto’s multi-decade legacy, and fans are speculating how younger teams will handle future Mario launches, especially with the Nintendo Switch 2 now exceeding 10 million units sold.
No major retirements or surprise business launches have emerged in the past 24 hours, and Miyamoto has not posted on his personal accounts, but the reverberations from his evolution at Nintendo dominate gaming media conversation. Speculation about a future role as company ambassador or advisor remains just that—speculation. Miyamoto himself told Casa Brutus he hopes to “stay healthy until Mario’s 50th anniversary,” underscoring that, while his role is different, his passion and influence remain as powerful as ever.
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