"Nintendo has been left for dead by investors this year. It would be a bigger story if Miyamoto left to work for Microsoft. The man is 59 years old, and eventually all people retire and/or die. The mark he has left on the video gaming industry will not disappear overnight. Nintendo has international brands and a playbook for how to exploit them; if you think that one man is responsible for their success you are very mistaken. He said in his interview that he has been preparing his younger developers to take the reigns for some time now, and I take him for his word. Steve Jobs put together a great team to achieve the success we have seen at Apple, and I have no doubt that Miyamoto and Iwata have done the same. Nintendo has been around since 1889, and I don't think they plan on rolling over and dying even if that is the consensus in investing and media circles." - Asif Khan, CEO of Panoptic Management Consultants

It'll be very interesting to see what happens when Miyamoto fully retires from the Big N. You have to wonder just where his franchises will head from there.