The father of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, may not work on the next installment of the Super Mario Bros. games, he confirmed.
The creator of many of Nintendo's bestselling franchises has spoken out on his desire to move onto smaller, downloadable games and for his colleagues to have a bigger role in development.
In an interview with Gamekult this week, he noted that creating Mario titles like Super Mario 3D World "takes a lot of energy and there is little chance that I could take the time to work on the next Mario".
Despite this, Miyamoto would like to be involved again and isn't ruling out the possibility to "work on a new game as the main producer", but even when not directly involved, he "always looks at what the team does in terms of gameplay, and I trust them".
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Going forward, the designer wants to become "more deeply in the development of smaller projects, but that doesn't mean it will be a modest download-only title or something like that".
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