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The Guardian has had the opportunity to chat with the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, and the conversation eventually got round to asking him if he has any plans at all to enter retirement. Mr. Miyamoto said that he has absolutely no plans to enter retirement, but he did say that he “thinks about things in a five-year timespan” and therefore sometimes thinks about who he can pass things onto in case something happens.
I think I already know how Miyamoto will reply when I ask him if he’s ever tempted to retire. Sure enough, he has no plans to do so; he still loves what he does. “More so than retiring, I’m thinking about the day I fall over,” he says, with a smile. “In this day and age you have to think about things in a five-year timespan, so I do think about who I can pass things on to, in case something does happen.
“I’m really thankful that there is so much energy around things that I have worked on. These are things that have already gone out into the world … they’ve been cultivated by others, other people have been raising them, helping them grow, so in that sense I don’t feel too much ownership over them any more.”