Creator of Mario and Zelda Is “Retiring”. Note The Scare Quotes.

Shigeru Miyamoto is a true boss of the gaming world. The dude created Mario. And Zelda. Throw your hands up for him. Every journey has its end, and Miyamoto has announced that he’s retiring. Kind of. Sort of. Maybe? The truth is a lot less sexy than traffic-snagging headlines.

Kotaku:

The man behind Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda says he plans to retire from his current position at Nintendo so he can spend time working on smaller projects and with younger developers or on his own, Wiredreported tonight.

Shigeru Miyamoto, 59, told Wired’s Chris Kohler that he’s been telling people in his office that he’s going to retire, but that he means he is retiring from his current position, not from the industry.

“What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself,” Miyamoto tells Wired. “Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small.”

The developer says he hopes to show off a new project he’s working on sometimes next year.

Check out the full story over on Wired’s Gamelife.

I’m interested in seeing what Miyamoto comes up with working on a smaller scale. Lord knows he’s been dabbling in franchises with enormous implications for a while now.