Miyamoto to receive Order of Culture, a first for games

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto will receive Japan's Order of Culture, the first person from the games industry to be awarded it, according to Denfaminicogamer. Miyamoto held a press conference about the award, where he said he felt embarrassed and would accept it on behalf of the many people involved in making games.

Asked what he values in game development, Miyamoto said the most important thing is that players think with their heads while playing, and that the pleasure of interactive media lies in wondering what will happen next. A creator's individuality, he said, is expressed in the kind of answer a game gives back to the player's experiments.

On generative AI, Miyamoto framed the relationship between technological progress and creation in terms of the difference between "making" and "work" that can be left to tools.

The outlet's article also looks back at earlier conversations on how games are made. In an interview with the author, former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata took part in a final talk with Dwango founder Nobuo Kawakami in a series on why gamers should aim to be managers, where he discussed organization and how to share understanding within a company.

In that talk, Iwata said that the same five minutes of speaking carries different density depending on whether one has thought about it for 100 hours or only 15 minutes beforehand.