When you’ve been with a company for a long time, you get a true scope of what it’s about, how it works, and what its goals are as you advance into the future. Shigeru Miyamoto was one of the people who helped shape Nintendo into the gaming giant it is right now and has been for decades. After all, he was the one who made the company’s first hit arcade game. He was also the one who created the company’s mascot, Mario, as well as numerous other franchises and characters that are still in use today.
While it’s true, by his own admission, that Shigeru Miyamoto doesn’t work on games as much anymore, he still has a huge part in the company’s creative process and is working toward building an even better future for the business. To that end, as noted by Insider Stealth, Miyamoto wants to inform any and all new hires about “What Is Nintendo” when they arrive, and he does this in multiple ways.
First, he does a 3-hour speech about the company and how they aren’t interested in the “Console Wars” that have been going on in the last few generations. That might sound odd, as Nintendo is one of the reasons that console wars existed in the first place. However, he specifically points out that neither he nor the company follows the path of Sony or Xbox, where they are all about the console specs and trying to make games as “graphically superior as possible.” That’s not what Nintendo does.
Another thing he notes is that the Nintendo Museum will be used to help teach employee’s about Nintendo and seeing how things have changed over the last several decades.
That’s a clever idea, and it’s definitely a “field trip” that new employees could easily get a kick out of. After all, the museum has numerous galleries dedicated to how Nintendo has evolved from being a card and toy company to the dominant video game company in the world. So, if the museum is able to help new hires understand what Nintendo is and the goals it seeks to achieve, they’ll be all the better for it.
Going back to the console war mention, while it might seem a little petty to call out Nintendo’s rivals like that, it should be noted that Nintendo is doing better than Xbox and PlayStation in numerous ways BECAUSE it didn’t fall into the same “spec traps” that they’re currently wallowing in.
Sometimes, you have to be different.
