222: Shigeru Miyamoto’s Complicated Legacy at Nintendo Explained

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Technology, Society & Culture, Video Games, Leisure

4.7 • 544 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Hello and welcome to episode 222 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today we want to talk about Shigeru Miyamoto and his complicated legacy working at Nintendo for nearly 50 years! His role has changed so much from when he first started at the company in the 1970s and has really evolved into something completely different. How will people remember Mr. Miyamoto when he finally decides to retire? These are the big questions we're asking. Also in this episode, more news has emerged about Nintendo's financials. Nintendo's stock is plummeting and we discuss if Nintendo is worried about this. We also have more comments from Nintendo global president Shuntaro Furukawa on what the company is doing to keep Switch 2 momentum high despite the upcoming price hike. We also started to play Indiana Jones on the Switch 2 and we're super impressed with this version of the game and we'll tell you why. We also finished Mixtape, the new indie game that's getting all sorts of buzz. We have so much in this jam-packed episode so settle on in!

0:00 - Welcome to episode 222
9:20 - Shigeru Miyamoto's legacy
59:44 - News news news
1:21:04 - Games we are playing

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0:00.0	Today we want to talk about the legend himself, Shigero Miyamoto.
0:05.0	He's definitely a legend. He's responsible for so many characters and so many series that got us into games in the first place.
0:12.0	But there has been some discontentment, some chit chat, especially as he is entered into a new phase of his career working on
0:24.7	Nintendo Entertainment. So we want to ask the question. Is this last thing that he's doing
0:30.6	actually hurting his legacy? He's our goat for sure, and we will not have any debate over that.
0:38.5	But it has been interesting to see people react to everything he's been saying about the Mario Galaxy movie.
0:45.4	And my God, the man's been doing interviews for six weeks straight.
0:48.1	So he's had a lot to say.
0:50.0	Totally.
0:50.8	It has gotten our attention.
0:51.9	And it does make us kind of think about, like,
0:54.4	his extremely long career and all the different phases that it's had. And just like,
1:01.5	gosh, when he retires, like, how are people going to remember him? And like, how much does that
1:06.8	depend on what, like, what games did you grow up with and what how involved, you know,
1:12.1	what was he doing at Nintendo?
1:13.7	So we were going to dig into that today.
1:15.5	Yeah, I feel like people may have a lot of like recency bias as well.
1:19.9	And then like if you're not, you know, old like us and grew up in the era where Mr.
1:26.3	Miyamoto was making the actual games?
1:28.2	Like, what would be your memory, your sort of like remembrance of him
1:33.9	once he leaves video games, once he leaves Nintendo?
1:36.7	I mean, you're always telling me that the first system you had was the we
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