Nintendo LifeAn industry leader May launched a video game on a Nintendo platform, the American developer and publisher Valve.
Despite this, the company’s founder, Gabe Newell, remains a big fan of Mario’s creator. In a recent interview with Outlet 1 News, Newell was asked if he still played himself regularly and took a brief break between conversations about Apex Legends i Ciberpunk 2077 to praise Shigeru Miyamoto.
“Playing Miyamoto’s games, it’s like one, they’re a lot of fun, but I can’t think of any of his games I’ve ever played that didn’t make me better as a game developer.”
A few years ago, Gabe’s son revealed how he and his father visited Nintendo’s headquarters in Japan and played Super Mario Galaxy next to Miyamoto. It seems that the two video game legends were talking about a “joint project” at the time, but “it was super informal” and in the end nothing was done about it.
Newell is obviously not the first high-profile developer to pay tribute to Nintendo’s most famous employee, even Nintendo employees remain excited and inspired by him.
Gabe is best known for the Half life series and its Steam digital gaming service, and currently lives in New Zealand due to the state of the pandemic in America.