Shigeru Miyamoto Sums Up Everything Wrong With The Industry In One Sentence
Kotaku | 29.07.2026 00:00
Whenever it’s time to talk about the current woes plaguing the video game industry—the layoffs, the game cancellations, the flops, the studio closures, the successes that still lead to studio closures and layoffs—Nintendo’s always the exception. Though subject to the same economic forces that require rising prices and to the same social forces that see a stagnant player base concentrated in fewer and fewer “forever games” like Fortnite and Roblox, Nintendo still seems to stand apart. In an interview with Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu (and translated via machine translation), Shigeru Miyamoto, long-time Nintendo director, explained exactly why Big Red is simply built different.
