@beardalaxy >I think he is typically a great game dev but holy shit he gets a stick up his ass whenever someone interacts with his work the "improper way."

A lot of game developers do it. It's called "creator's backlash". I honestly don't know why people worship this guy. He's really only known for Smash and Kirby. Is it because he worked on games fresh out of high school? Is it because he takes no days off when working on Smash?

>Although, this mindset of Sakurai's at least freed us from the hell that was smash 4 Bayonetta in ultimate. Too bad we just got Steve instead and he'll never be fixed.

I don't know what you are talking about here. Granted, I never played either version of Smash 4.

>So many Nintendo devs are infuriating man. They're geniuses, but they all have some weird hang up on something. Miyamoto needs to shove gimmicks in everything. Sakurai holds weird grudges. Itoi thinks he reached perfection and doesn't want to do anything else. Aonuma thinks people only like old games more because of Nostalgia.

Itoi isn't even a game designer. The Mother series, along with his fishing games were just one of his many works. Given the rough development cycle of every single MOTHER game, along with Itoi lacking any knowledge when it comes to computers and programming, I completely understand why he doesn't want to develop games anymore.

Now, that I think about it, with the exception of Sakurai, all the people you mentioned never intended to be in the games industry in the first place. Miyamoto wanted to be a manga artist, but was forced to work with Nintendo by his father because he knew the president, and this was still back when it was a toy company. Itoi is a copyrighter who wanted to make a video game series for his son that he rarely got to see, and Aonuma made wooden puppets, and got hired by Nintendo because Miyamoto liked his puppet work. Granted, only Sakurai actually grew up with video games, but I still find it ironic.