Nintendo Wii Fanboy

The latest interview to come out of Shigeru Miyamoto's New York press meetings is with the New York Times, who, rather than just asking about Wii Fit, chose to profile the man behind the haircut. Accordingly, most of their article is a historical look at just how great Miyamoto is, and how influential he has been to game development, with supporting quotes from Game Informer's Andy McNamara and Disney Interactive's Graham Hopper.

The most interesting bit is when Miyamoto discusses his game design influences. We've all heard how gardening inspired Pikmin and a scale led to Wii Fit. Miyamoto acknowledges that this is somewhat of a change from his previous game design process: "Whereas before I could kind of use my own imagination to create these worlds or create these games, I would say that over the last five years I've had more of a tendency to take interests or topics in my life and try to draw the entertainment out of that." Coming next year -- Wii Make Games!