--- title: Shigeru Miyamoto: The Wizard of Wii description: The mind behind Mario and other Nintendo characters, Shigeru Miyamoto turned the Wii into a world beater. His next trick: making weight-watching fun canonical: https://time.com/archive/6684923/shigeru-miyamoto-the-wizard-of-wii/ author: Anita Hamilton article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2008-05-22T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T10:42:20.716Z article:section: Business og:title: Shigeru Miyamoto: The Wizard of Wii og:description: The mind behind Mario and other Nintendo characters, Shigeru Miyamoto turned the Wii into a world beater. 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Source: [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/home?i=4426f47e-8993-45d8-b1fe-2e274a95f13c&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) and [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/pricing/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/pricing?i=4426f47e-8993-45d8-b1fe-2e274a95f13c&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) by [Anita Hamilton](https://time.com/author/anita-hamilton/) May 22, 2008 4:00 AM UTC  Shigeru Miyamoto, senior managing director and general manager of the entertainment analysis and development division for Nintendo. Shigeru Miyamoto, senior managing director and general manager of the entertainment analysis and development division for Nintendo. Robert Galbraith / Reuters by [Anita Hamilton](https://time.com/author/anita-hamilton/) May 22, 2008 4:00 AM UTC Shigeru Miyamoto is revered among video gamers for creating a legion of adventures filled with goofy heroes like Mario and Luigi. Among co-workers, though, Miyamoto is equally well known for his cartoonishly hot temper. Early last year, when Nintendo engineers had trouble executing his vision for a new kind of game that involved stepping on a scale and weighing yourself, they learned firsthand just how much like Bowser–Mario’s fire-breathing archnemesis–Miyamoto could be. “I suffered the wrath of Miyamoto-san because we weren’t coming up with enough ideas,” developer Arisa Hosaka said in an online interview posted by Nintendo. “We all started panicking and just throwing ideas around, hoping that something would stick.” The Miyamoto I meet in a New York City hotel suite in April is disarmingly polite. Casually dressed in black jeans and a T shirt, he’s happy and relaxed as he shows off the game that nearly led his 15-person development team to quit in frustration. Despite his outbursts, Miyamoto held them together. “It helps for me to work with some of those younger developers,” he says, “so they understand that it’s O.K. to take your time and flesh out ideas and really turn it into something special.” That turned out to be Wii Fit–a $90 game released in the U.S. in May for the Wii game console–which comes with a “balance board” on which you stand and do exercises ranging from aerobics to hula hoop to yoga. It’s a clever attempt to mask exercise as play–but it works. (For a review, go to [time.com/wii.](https://time.com/wii.) That’s due in large part to Wii Fit’s ability to adjust the action for your weight and equilibrium–something no other game does. It’s the latest in a series of innovations that have made the Wii the jewel of the gaming world. Nintendo has sold more than 24 million units of the $250 console, widely expected to be an also-ran to Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation when the three machines were introduced a few years ago. The magic is in its handheld motion sensors, which let players duplicate the action of throwing a ball or swinging a club or racquet. Wii bumped up Nintendo’s sales 73%, to $16 billion, last year. It is outselling rivals 3 to 1, and Fit is driving Wii: more than 2 million Fit units have been sold since the game’s December launch in Japan, and its U.S. debut is expected to drive Nintendo to another bust-out year. Nearly as unlikely as the Wii’s world-beating success is that of the man behind it. A self-professed doodler from a rural town outside Kyoto, Miyamoto once dreamed of becoming a puppeteer, which may help explain the leisurely five years he spent earning his degree in industrial design. His dad got him in touch with reality in 1977 by calling a friend–who happened to head Nintendo–and landed Miyamoto his first job, as a staff artist for what was then a toymaker. In 1981, Miyamoto created an arcade game inspired by pairing the fictional ape King Kong with the muscular, muttering Popeye cartoon character. Expectations were so low for Donkey Kong (and by extension Miyamoto) that it was initially tested in just two bars in Seattle. Donkey Kong’s surprise success turned the doodler into a dynamo as he spooled off characters such as Super Mario and Luigi to play on Nintendo’s series of game consoles, including the GameCube and handheld Nintendo DS. With Fit, Miyamoto is abandoning those familiar faces–it’s about time, say his critics–and taking gamers in a new direction. Although many people dread weighing themselves, the slight, 137-lb. (62 kg) designer hatched the idea for Wii Fit when he realized he got a kick out of charting his own weight on a piece of paper taped to the wall: “My whole family took an interest. Seeing how that was able to excite the people in my family, I thought, Oh, this is a really neat experience that I’d like to bring to other people.” A breakthrough with Fit came when the developers decided to add motion sensors to each corner of the balance board and change its original square shape to a rectangle. This allowed them to add balance tests inspired by Seitai–a Japanese healing therapy that focuses on posture–and let the board double as a snowboard for use in the slalom, one of Wii Fit’s coolest minigames. Now 55 and a veritable Walt Disney of video games, Miyamoto can afford to upset the creative balance. He admits that devising Fit was a lot less fun than playing it. “There tends to be a lot of nervousness about working on a product like this. Video games have a lot of expectations, and developers tend to have stress to meet those,” he told me. Miyamoto draws from his personal life to create new games. His love of dogs led to the virtual-pet title Nintendogs, and his gardening hobby grew into the carrot-shaped Pikmin in the eponymous GameCube hit. With Fit, though, Miyamoto is showing that even the mundane can be a source of entertainment: “When people look back at Wii Fit, they won’t look at it in comparison to Mario but as unique interactive entertainment that really introduced the masses to what that can be. While there is appeal in creating living, breathing fantasy worlds, I also see the experience of interacting with your reality in a way that you normally can’t as a great source of entertainment.” He is now working on a music game. 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