Den numera 60 år gamla Nintendo-legendaren Shigeru Miyamoto spelar inte längre en nyckelroll i företagets spelutveckling. Detta enligt en intervju med Official Nintendo Magazine där Miyamoto menar att han litar på sina respektive producenter till fullo.
"As you saw at our presentation at E3, Mr Aonuma chased me off stage... he doesn't need me any more! The final responsibility for the title still comes down to me and I'm still involved in the games, but i'm definitely able to leave the series up to him in a way."
För att förklara hur hans roll inom företaget har förändrats adderade han:
"I don't have to look at every minute detail of every game any more. I know there's going to be the level of quality that we expect under his supervision."
"Similarly we have Koizumi-san, who's the producer or the Mario series and it's the same type of situation. And certainly Konno-san with Mario Kart, too. And Mr Eguchi, producer of the Animal Crossing series. These are the main producers that we've trained who are talented enough and we can allow them to oversee the project and manage all the details and still maintain the Nintendo level of quality."
Eiji Aonuma tog över som director efter The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (där han var producer) och gjorde The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask till en av de mer udda installationerna i serien.