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Shigeru Miyamoto says developers shouldn’t worry so much about making games for everyone. In a recent interview with Famitsu, the Nintendo legend said, “If developers try to make something the world will like, it becomes generic.” Instead, he believes the best games come from personal ideas and passions. “The most ‘local’ things – like an individual’s personal hobbies – are often the ones that resonate globally.” “If you try to base your work on things that only seem to have broad appeal, you end up with something generic” He used Pokémon as the perfect example. The franchise became a worldwide hit because it came from Satoshi Tajiri’s childhood love of collecting insects