Shigeru Miyamoto has explained how his role has changed at Nintendo now that he’s stepped back a little from his earlier roles at the company. Miyamoto says that the biggest difference is that he has been interacting directly and working directly with individual development teams. He says he doesn’t leave the office until around 10pm because he is so busy working with programmers and designers.

“Thirty years ago or so, when I was a director on a game, I would spend all my time focusing on a single game and just developing that. But since that time, generally I’ve been in a position where I’m looking at multiple different titles at the same time, and giving feedback to the teams there. But overall, my day-to-day hasn’t really changed that much. Probably over the past year, the biggest difference has been that I’m actually interacting directly and working directly with individual development teams…