14 DAY TRIAL // Shigeru Miyamoto, who is the main video game developer working at Nintendo, has received a Prince of Asturias Award in the Communication and Humanities category, which has previously recognized personalities and organizations like Umberto Eco, CNN and Google.
The panel that decides the awards said Shigeru Miyamoto was “the main architect of the revolution in teaching, educational and constructive video games” and praised him for making video games that feature limited violence and can be played by entire families together.
The Prince of Asturias Award means that Miyamoto will get a diploma, insignia with the Prince of Asturias Foundation's coat of arms, a sculpture created by Joan Miró and a cash prize worth 50,000 Euro (63,183 dollars).
Miyamoto has recently suggested that he was becoming less interested in making games directly and ready to focus more of his time on teaching younger developers how to replicate his style, but Nintendo says that he will still lead core franchises for the company.