Nintendo LifeAn industry leader not released 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 Press 1 News, Newell was asked if he still plays games regularly and took a short break between conversations about Apex Legends and 2077. Cyberpunk to praise Shigeru Miyamoto.
“Playing Miyamoto’s games is like one, they’re a lot of fun, but I can’t think of any of his games I’ve ever played that wouldn’t make me better as a game developer.”
A few years ago, Gabe’s son revealed how he and his father actually visited Nintendo’s headquarters in Japan and played Super Mario Galaxy with Miyamoto. It seems that the two video game legends talked about a “common project” at the time, but “it was super casual” and nothing happened.
Newell is obviously not the first profile developer to pay tribute to Nintendo’s most famous employee – even Nintendo employees are still excited and inspired by him.
Gabe is best known for Half life series and its digital distribution service Steam, and currently lives in New Zealand due to the state of the American pandemic.