"For instance, I might guess that the table in front of us is about 1.2 metres long. Then I'd actually measure it with the measuring tape to check. If I got it right, I'd think: 'I'm on form today!' But if I missed the mark by a long way, I'd think: 'I've been slipping a bit recently'," he added.
He likes guessing the weight of things too, but there's a problem with that. "You can walk around with a measuring tape but you don't find scales all that commonly, which makes it very difficult to check the weights of objects," said Miyamoto who, 25 years ago, invented the greatest videogames ever made.
"That's why I've always thought that using the Wii Balance Board to play a weight-guessing game would be great ... Doing something like that would be great fun, wouldn't it? You don't think it would be fun?" he asked in the latest 'Iwata Asks' interview.
lol! This man is obviously out of our league, sitting right there with Einstein, Mozart, Thom Yorke and the rest of this worlds creative elite. The world would be a different place without those people, hail to all of their odd excentric behaviours!
Its a common occurrence with all Geniuses (which Miyamoto is in his own right) they always have some odd quirk. Not sure I'd want to stand next to him at the Urinals though...
I don't think that's ever going to happen with Miyamoto-san. Well... he has to die sometime I guess. A world without Shigeru... *shudders* I don't want to think about that!
It's nice to praise Miyamoto for practically inventing the platform game 25 years ago but I wouldn't say that was better than his later games like Super Mario World - also, there have been several other studios, including Rare and Sega, who have created brilliant platformers that either tried a different direction from Miyamoto or improved on certain things. Super Mario Sunshine, which Miyamoto didn't have much input in to, was a disappointment in some ways but it's good to see that Super Mario Galaxy appears to live up to what people should expect of the word 'genius'.
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