Sticker Star, Sticker Star, Sticker Star! Miyamoto ruined it by not rehashing the same game yet again. Is that seriously the only concrete example people can came up with for why his influence is detrimental? Seems to me he's an easy scapegoat for the shortcomings of the company as a whole.

No, I don't think his involvement has been detrimental to the company. Give him a little more credit. He knows how to make games that are complete, polished and released on a reasonable timescale. What more could we reasonably expect from a game developer? I should hope that someone with his experience both making and overseeing games has some sort of voice in the goings-on of the company.

Either way, I enjoyed Sticker Star for what it was. As for Star Fox, I'm not sure what it says about the game that the reaction to it has been all over the place.

Miyamoto's influence can been seen in everything that Nintendo has produced since the days of the NES, Is this a good thing? Is this a bad thing? Who knows. Sure he created the most iconic characters and games in the history of the art form. But like anything in this business after 30 plus years, it is going to show its age. I, like most of you I would wager, will always have a soft spot for Miyamoto and Nintendo, But I would argue that so much of what we feel for them now comes from a place of nostalgia. And that is not a bad thing. Nostalgia can be and is extremely powerful. However it is also based firmly in the past, much like the company we see today.

@mindbullet: I don't know if you can say that the games are not the reason for the failure of these systems (Wii U and 3DS). For better or worse Nintendo has time and time again bucked off third parties and focused on the hardware that best displays their software and with each iteration they have sold fewer and fewer consoles. The Wii being an obvious outlier. Therefore when you look at the situation facing the Wii U (and the 3DS to a lesser extent) the success or failure of the console lies squarely on how good the games are.