In this picture from a circa 1993 Nintendo official strategy guide book for Kirby's Adventure, we see young Shigeru Miyamoto, young Satoru Iwata, and young older? Masahiro Sakurai draw their best Kirby.
Kirby and Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai revealed that the game project he referenced in his final YouTube video last October was Kirby Air Riders.
The Super Smash Bros series wouldn't exist without former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, according to creator Masahiro Sakurai.
'We believe that it is important to nurture developers who take this unique concept to heart.' -Miyamoto
By making pretty much only AA games so they can sell them for the same price as AAA games.
By being threatened by dev teams innovating on formulas found in your cash cow, but are either afraid or lack the talent to implement themselves
Well with the exception of Zelda and Xenoblade Chronicles series, Nintendo first party games are usually less demanding (see Arms, Nintendo sports series 2d kirby + mario games, Mario sports series, Warioware, Mario Party etc).
Zelda doesnt even have voice acting for its characters most of the time and its games use simpler textures than lets say Horizon Zero Dawn, Last of Us, Gears of War 5 etc which means that the development costs are lower.
Even so, their games are generally polished and well thought of and as the Switch generation showed, many of their franchises actually grew considerably in sales (Kirby , Xenoblades, Metroid etc).
I still love Zelda, and Mario Kart/Party is always a good time as well, although Nintendo isn't chasing hyper realistic graphics like a lot of the other studios are.
Japan CEOs take pay cut to keep talent, USA CEO take 20 million bonuses and fire talent
News Flash! Miyamoto's used piece of toilet paper didn't flush all the way down the toilet! Tune in for pictures of this marvelous artifact! This is obviously news worthy *sarcasm*
Those were the years oh man loved that Snes.