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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto "very much" regretted making Super Mario Sunshine so hard as it should be something that even "Grandma and Grandpa" can pick up and play

The Mario maker wanted to GameCube classic to be more playable for everyone

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Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto always knew that Navi was the "biggest weakpoint of Ocarina of Time" and once said "I wanted to remove the entire system"

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Nintendo DS at 20 – the console that paved the way for smartphone gaming

In this week’s newsletter: With its clamshell design and innovative touch-screen, the DS was the bridge between handheld games devices and the iPhone

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Nintendo reveals Donkey Kong Country theme park area in Japan: opening date and new rides

The new area features a bongo-based rhythm activity, inspired by the 2003 Gamecube title Donkey Konga, and a mine cart rollercoaster

Evening Standard

Nintendo's Miyamoto says he isn't a genius and "I'd prefer not to work at all, but If I'm going to work, I want to do so as efficiently as possible"

He also expands on his video game design philosophy

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5 Year Ago, Nintendo's Most Underrated Franchise Got the Trilogy It Deserved

'Luigi's Mansion 3' captures the Halloween spirit more than any other game on Nintendo Switch.

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Shigeru Miyamoto thought Banjo-Kazooie was so great it helped convince him to delay Zelda: Ocarina of Time - "It's so amazing that we don't want to be outdone"

Miyamoto was a Banjo fan before any of us

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Former Nintendo factory in Kyoto opens as nostalgia-fuelled gaming museum

Museum features consoles from 1983’s Famicom to 2017’s Switch, as well as honouring Nintendo’s pre-video-game era

The Guardian - UK

As PlayStation and Xbox push high specs, Shigeru Miyamoto wants to be left out of the 'console wars' because Nintendo just wants to make games "unique to Nintendo"

The Nintendo Switch proves you don't need cutting-edge technology to sell a gazillion consoles

GamesRadar

As AAA companies drool over AI, Shigeru Miyamoto says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction"

Nintendo is certainly no EA

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Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom was a "dungeon creation" game until Eiji Aonuma flipped the table a year in – "I was right next to them thinking of something different"

Shigeru Miyamoto isn't the only one who knows how to "upend the tea table"

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Former Nintendo veteran says Shigeru Miyamoto "doesn't accept compromise" in game design: "This is what it takes to be number one at anything in the world"

Star Fox's Takaya Imamura gushed over his time working with the Super Mario maker

GamesRadar

Nintendo accidentally created one of the best-selling PS1 games by saying no to a 3D Yoshi platformer that Miyamoto "loved," and after 27 years it's getting remastered

"We showed it to Miyamoto-san and he was blown away"

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Shigeru Miyamoto would get "angry" during Zelda: Twilight Princess development and ask things like "who put this stone here" – now Tears of the Kingdom has a tool for that

What Miyamoto wants, Miyamoto gets

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Nintendo Museum revealed in Japan: what videogame museums are in the UK?

Can’t make it to Japan? Here are all the gaming exhibitions currently happening in the UK

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The new Nintendo Museum has a display dedicated to "before we made games," featuring exhibits like 'Nintendo Baby Stroller' and 'Nintendo Gun'

No Nintendo Switch 2 here, though

Inverse

35 Years Ago, Nintendo Released a Cult Classic RPG That Was Ahead of Its Time

‘Mother’ was a literal game-changer thanks to its brilliant writing and devoted fanbase

GamesRadar

Shigeru Miyamoto wants Nintendo to have a hit the size of Breath of the Wild or Animal Crossing: New Horizons every "3-5 years"

The good news? The Switch already has 4 of them

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Mario and Zelda legend Shigeru Miyamoto says Nintendo's "generational handover" is "progressing smoothly," with "developers that are young and brilliant"

Miyamoto says Nintendo's old guard is gradually handing over the torch

PC Gamer

1980s court documents show Nintendo considered 'Kong Dong' and 'Kong the Kong' before settling on the name Donkey Kong

Also: Funky Kong is sadly much more canon than we ever realised.

Total Film

A new Super Mario Bros. movie is officially coming in 2026

Nintendo boss Shigeru Miyamoto shared the news

PC Gamer

In 1989, a Nintendo bigwig licensed SimCity on the spot by sliding a million dollar check across the table

Just like in the movies!

Inverse

30 Years Ago, Nintendo Released Its Most Inventive Platformer — And Changed Mario Forever

1994’s ‘Donkey Kong’ brought a brand new Mario to Game Boy.

Total Film

Mario movie star Chris Pratt thinks we will be getting "lots" of Nintendo films over the next decade - and he's just as excited about it as you are

Exclusive | Chris Pratt says a bright future lies ahead for both the Mario movie series and Nintendo films

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Nintendo emulators on the App Store are a far cry from the heady days of Miyamoto at an iPhone launch

In 2016, Nintendo announced Super Mario Run for iPhone. Eight years later, that feels like a different 'World 1-1'.

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