Miyamoto says it would be "strange" not to be thinking of retirement at his age

In an interview with GameSpot, famed video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was asked about whether or not he is thinking of retiring. He responded by saying that it would be "strange" not to be thinking about retiring at his age, but noted that his workload has remained the same. And yet, it appears that he has been taking a more "hands off" approach to new games, in order to let younger staff do more and gain experience.

"This year I’m past 60; I’m going to be turning 61 this year. So for me to not be thinking about retirement would be strange. But in fact, the number of projects I’m involved in–and the volume of my work–hasn’t changed at all.

Instead, what we’re doing internally is, on the assumption that there may someday be a time when I’m no longer there, and in order for the company to prepare for that, what I’m doing is pretending like I’m not working on half the projects that I would normally be working on to try to get the younger staff to be more involved. 

And as I like to say, I try to duck out of the way, so that instead of them looking at me, they’re looking at the consumer and trying to develop their games with the consumer in mind rather than me in mind. So it’s really more of looking at this as sort of an opportunity to really try to help develop them and bring them up.

Source: GameSpot