Miyamoto Totally Teased New Mario Game With Shirt On Fallon
Shigeru Miyamoto wore a t-shirt on the Jimmy Fallon show this week, and it caught the attention of many. Could he, we speculated as the Internet Geeks, be teasing something? According to Nintendo of America’s senior product marketing, he was!
Shigeru Miyamoto appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this week wearing a shirt that’s garnered some attention from Nintendo fans. Turns out they may have been right for analyzing his fashion choice, as Nintendo of America’s senior product marketing manager Bill Trinen teased on Twitter.
Miyamoto wore a striking red T-shirt with an image of Mario in a samurai costume for his Tonight Show spot. Some fans admired the item as a stylish, unique fashion piece, but others felt confident that it pointed toward something more.
Reddit users, as we previously reported, immediately saw it as an explicit hint about the next Super Mario game, which we know is bound for Nintendo Switch at some point in the future. Since we’ve seen so little of that title thus far, however, it was hard to see their speculation as anything more than just that: speculation.
Trinen all but confirmed that their speculation was not unfounded. Although he hasn’t said where Samurai Mario will appear — if at all — we now know that the costume is more significant than just emblematic of Miyamoto’s sartorial aesthetic.
Miyamoto even went so far as to wear the shirt a second time during his New York trip this week. We attended a press event where the designer was speaking, and he was once again wearing the samurai Mario piece.