Miyamoto believes Aonuma no longer needs him for Zelda, no longer looking “at every minute detail of every game”
Eventually, there will come a day when Shigeru Miyamoto is no longer at Nintendo. But when that does happen fans won’t need to worry – Eiji Aonuma, Yoshiaki Koizumi, and Hideki Konno are a few of the primary staffers that have become Miyamoto’s apprentices, so to speak.
In fact, when it comes to Aonuma, Miyamoto believes that “he doesn’t need me any more”. Aonuma told ONM in the magazine’s latest issue:
“As you saw at our presentation at E3, Mr Aonuma chased me off stage… he doesn’t need me any more! The final responsibility for the title still comes down to me and I’m still involved in the games, but i’m definitely able to leave the series up to him in a way.”
Miyamoto’s role at Nintendo is no longer the same. He now feels that he’s no longer forced “to look at every minute detail of every game”.
“I don’t have to look at every minute detail of every game any more. I know there’s going to be the level of quality that we expect under his supervision. Similarly we have Koizumi-san, who’s the producer or the Mario series and it’s the same type of situation. And certainly Konno-san with Mario Kart, too. And Mr Eguchi, producer of the Animal Crossing series. These are the main producers that we’ve trained who are talented enough and we can allow them to oversee the project and manage all the details and still maintain the Nintendo level of quality.”
