Those of you hoping for the next big “gamer’s game” franchise from Nintendo to be made at the hands of Shigeru Miyamoto, you might be out of luck. In a recent interview, Miyamoto praised the up-and-coming younger developers within the company, saying that they’ll be the ones to bring us new and fresh properties.
…If we’ve got it right, Pikmin was the last original IP you came up with specifically for traditional gamers. Any idea when we can expect a new so-called hardcore property from you? We’re thinking more along the lines of a strictly hardcore title versus those you mentioned [e.g. Wii Sports, Nintendogs], which fall into the casual category, too.
Shigeru Miyamoto: No, I’m all dried up [laughs]. But luckily, there are lots of young and creative people at Nintendo, so I think they’re really going to be driving a lot of that new original IP and yeah, we do have a lot of really great stuff that we’re thinking about. And in terms of Pikmin, I’ve always thought of it more of an expanded audience title myself so if a longtime fans think of it as something for them and if our expanded fans think of it as something for them, well, that’s great for us.
Could it really be the end of an era? Or do you think he just hasn’t been hit with that great idea just yet?
