Nintendo LifeAn industry leader who is Never launched a video game on a Nintendo platform is the American developer and publisher Valve.
Despite this, the company’s founder, Gabe Newell, is still a big fan of Mario’s creator. In a recent interview with outlet 1 News, Newell was asked if he still played regularly and stopped for a brief moment between a conversation about Apex Legends and Cyberpunk 2077 to praise Shigeru Miyamoto.
“Playing Miyamoto’s games is like, um, they’re really fun, but I can’t think of any of the games I’ve played that didn’t make me better as a game developer.”
A few years ago, it was revealed by Gabe’s son how he and his father actually visited Nintendo’s headquarters in Japan and played Super Mario Galaxy next to Miyamoto. The two video game legends apparently talked about a “joint project” at the time, but “it was super casual” and nothing came out of it in the end.
Newell is obviously not the first high-level developer to pay tribute to Nintendo’s most famous employee – even Nintendo employees themselves are still enthusiastic and inspired by him.
Gabe is best known for Half life series and its digital game distribution service Steam, and is currently living in New Zealand due to the state of the pandemic in America.