{"id":104287,"date":"2019-11-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/miyamoto_would_rather_focus_on_new_nintendo_experiences_than_old_ones"},"modified":"2019-11-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:00:00","slug":"miyamoto-would-rather-focus-on-new-nintendo-experiences-than-old-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/24\/miyamoto-would-rather-focus-on-new-nintendo-experiences-than-old-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyamoto Would Rather Focus On New Nintendo Experiences Than Old Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9516a24e4579\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9516a24e4579\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Shigeru Miyamoto\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9516a24e4579\/shigeru-miyamoto.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9516a24e4579\/shigeru-miyamoto.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Shigeru Miyamoto\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa recently stated in a follow-up <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/nintendo_wants_to_focus_on_new_experiences_for_switch_but_is_open_to_more_remakes\">Q&amp;A<\/a> to Nintendo&#8217;s six months earnings report how important it was for the company to create new game experiences. In a rare western interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/nintendos_dev_teams_need_freedom_to_experiment_according_to_president_shuntaro_furukawa\">TIME<\/a> in October, he also mentioned how it was vital for Nintendo&#8217;s development teams to &#8220;try something new&#8221; and step into &#8220;unfamiliar territory&#8221; with their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has doubled-down on this, reinforcing the fact Nintendo is all about new ideas. At the same event where he received his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/nintendos_shigeru_miyamoto_to_be_recognised_as_a_person_of_cultural_merit_in_japan\">Person of Cultural Merit award<\/a>, Mr. Miyamoto said he would focus on new experiences to bring smiles to people around the world, without falling back too much on past creations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I intend to keep trying to create something new that brings smiles to people around the world without focusing too much on what we have already created.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be hard to argue that the best thing about Nintendo is its rich history, but as of late, the company has certainly made it loud and clear it&#8217;s all about &#8220;new&#8221; ideas and experiences. Some examples of this include <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_labo_toy-con_04_vr_kit\">Labo VR<\/a><\/strong> and in more recent times <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ring_fit_adventure\">Ring Fit Adventure<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Miyamoto&#8217;s latest comment also slots right in with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/shigeru_miyamoto_wants_nintendo_to_be_as_big_as_disney_but_concerned_parents_are_making_it_difficult\">ones<\/a> about resorting to <em>other<\/em> methods to capture the attention of seemingly reluctant markets \u2013 with projects such as theme parks.<\/p>\n<p>In saying this, it doesn&#8217;t mean Nintendo is necessarily abandoning its older ideas and creations. In <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2019\/191102.pdf\">the same<\/a> Nintendo Q&amp;A, Furukawa acknowledged how &#8220;past games&#8221; were a very valuable asset to the company and went onto mention how <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">The Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening<\/a><\/strong> was seen by many players as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/nintendo_wants_to_focus_on_new_experiences_for_switch_but_is_open_to_more_remakes\">perfect mix<\/a> of new and nostalgic experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa recently stated in a follow-up Q&amp;A to Nintendo&#8217;s six months earnings report how important it was for the company to create new game experiences. In a rare western interview with TIME in October, he also mentioned how it was vital for Nintendo&#8217;s development teams to &#8220;try something new&#8221; and step into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}