Miyamoto is not the current president of Nintendo and hasn’t been for a while. These days he’s a guy who walks into your office to see what you’re doing with the characters he created 35 years ago and says “good job” or “nah, I don’t think that fits the spirit of the series”. Blaming him for corporate policy is somewhat nonsensical.
He also mentors the new class. From the New York Times:
Shigeru Miyamoto has been making the same request of all new employees at Nintendo for at least the past decade: For the love of all things Super Mario, please design games that might sell 30 million copies.
“Creativity” was actually just a poor translation. What they meant to say was “enhanced legal department”. Easy mistake.
Legal action also requires a lot of creativity
“We have decided we own balls.”
Instead of creative new games they come up with creative new ways to sue the people making the games Nintendo refuses to make.
Miyamoto is not the current president of Nintendo and hasn’t been for a while. These days he’s a guy who walks into your office to see what you’re doing with the characters he created 35 years ago and says “good job” or “nah, I don’t think that fits the spirit of the series”. Blaming him for corporate policy is somewhat nonsensical.
Afaik he was never the president unless you count a couple of months after iwata died as co-interim president
He also mentors the new class. From the New York Times: