Shigeru Miyamoto er en udvikler kendt for at skabe legendariske Nintendo franchises som Mario og The Legend of Zelda, og nu har han åbnet op omkring sit forhold til Satoru Iwata, den tidligere Nintendo præsident, der døde tilbage i 2015, i en ny bog kaldet Iwata-San, der lige er udkommet i Japan.
Bogen er på japansk, men ifølge DualShockers reflekterer Miyamoto over deres første måltid sammen, hvor de fik Ramen da Iwata arbejde for HAL Laboratory.
"Nintendo doesn't pay for social expenses, so we had to go Dutch on the bill. That became a tradition that lasted even after he became company president and I became an executive," forklarede Miyamoto.
"Normally, if someone younger than yourself with fewer years of experience becomes president, it might be difficult to get along with each other, but it was never like that. It had been obvious that he was more suited for the position (than me), so it never became a problem. I think it allowed us to naturally become true friends," fortsætter Miyamoto.
Miyamoto beskriver også, hvordan Nintendo er uden Iwata:
"Nintendo has been doing just fine. He left many words and structures that live on in the work of our younger employees today. The only problem is that, if there is some good-for-nothing idea I come up with over the weekend, I have no one to share it with the next Monday. That I can no longer hear him say 'Oh, about that thing...' is a bit of a problem for me. It makes me sad."
"To me, he was a friend more than anything. It never felt like he was my boss or that I was working under him. He never got angry; we never fought about anything."