Shigeru Miyamoto is a busy man these days. He's working on, like, five different titles at the moment, announcing announcements of future Zelda titles, talking about that Wii Motion Plus gizmo all while raking in award after award for his remarkable work in the video game industry.
Just over nine-thousand* developers were recently presented with a survey asking who it was they considered to be their hero as far as video game developing goes. With about 30% of the total votes, Miyamoto emerged as the winner of what is surely one the most honorable awards he's ever received. If anyone's capable of recognizing talent as a developer, it's the guys who do it themselves.
The top ten:
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Just over nine-thousand* developers were recently presented with a survey asking who it was they considered to be their hero as far as video game developing goes. With about 30% of the total votes, Miyamoto emerged as the winner of what is surely one the most honorable awards he's ever received. If anyone's capable of recognizing talent as a developer, it's the guys who do it themselves.
The top ten:
1. Shigeru Miyamoto
2. John Carmack
3. Will Wright
4. Dave Jones
5. Sid Meier
6. Peter Molyneux
7. David Braben
8. Masaya Matsuura
9. Michael Morhaime
10. Jonathan Blow
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All I can think of "WE DID IT!!!".
Seriously though, like this was actually in doubt. Miyamoto wins awards every year for this stuff. Nice that his peers were the ones to make the choice this time around, but he's been a hero to developers since the 80's.
What impresses me most is his ability to still come up with new and unique ideas. Pikmin is great, he keeps Mario and Zelda seemingly fresh, he came up with Wii Music (which isn't for me, but it does have it's crowd), Wii Fit, and I heard he was a instigater in Wii vitality sensor and the Wii Motion Plus. Of course, he was also one of the lead creators behind the entire concept of the Wii.
Truly impressive career. He's getting older, but he still just knows how to make some of the best quality games out there. I take my hat off to you sir. Hopefully you keep winning these awards, because it tells me you are still involved in this niche in our world making it all the better.