Nintendo LifeThat is one market leader never a video game released on a Nintendo platform is the American developer and publisher Valve.
Despite this, the company’s founder, Gabe Newell, is still a huge fan of Mario’s creator. In a recent interview with outlet 1 News, Newell was asked if he still played games himself regularly and took a brief moment between conversations Apex Legends and Cyberpunk 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 haven’t made me better as a game developer.”
A few years ago, it was revealed by Gabe’s son how he and his father visited and played Nintendo headquarters in Japan Super Mario Galaxy next to Miyamoto. The two video game legends apparently spoke of a “joint project” at the time, but “it was super casual” and it never materialized.
Newell is clearly not the first high-profile developer to pay tribute to Nintendo’s most famous employee – even Nintendo’s own employees are still enthusiastic and inspired by him.
Gabe is best known for the Half-life series and its digital game service Steam, and currently resides in New Zealand due to the state of the pandemic in America.