Shigeru Miyamoto er blandt spilbranchens vigtigste skikkelser nogensinde, og han arbejder stadig fuld tid på gigantiske titler hos Nintendo. Samtidig er han 71 år, og man kunne godt forvente at en pension venter ude i den nærmeste fremtid, men sådan ser han slet ikke på det.
I et interview med Nintendo Life afviser han pension, og siger i stedet at han tænker på virksomhedens fremtid:
"More so than retiring, I'm thinking about the day I fall over. 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."
Miyamoto arbejder som "Creative Fellow", og passerer viden videre til den næste generation.