Kanye West reportedly pitched a game to Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘He couldn’t believe it’
Kanye West reportedly pitched an unreleased game about his mother ascending to heaven directly to Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto at E3 2015.
The rapper and fashion designer would go on to publicly announce the game, ‘Only One’, during an event in New York in February 2016.
The game’s title was the same as the 2014 song West wrote about his daughter North, told from the perspective of his late mother, Donda West.
“I’m working on on a video game and I wanted to show y’all,” West said when he announced the game. “The idea of the game is my mom travelling through the gates of heaven.”
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Prior to the game’s public reveal, it’s claimed West attempted to persuade Nintendo to take on the project by speaking to Shigeru Miyamoto himself
Former IGN employee and current Twitch lead community producer Zachary Ryan claimed on Friday that in early 2016, he travelled to New York to interview Miyamoto for Star Fox Zero.
When West’s name came up during a conversation Ryan was having with a Nintendo representative about the rapper’s new album, Miyamoto reportedly overheard and began recounting a anecdote about the previous E3 via his translator.
“He said that Kanye had shown up at the Nintendo booth unannounced and asked for an audience with Miyamoto specifically, right then and there,” Ryan tweeted.
“He went on to say that Kanye showed him the prototype for a video game. In it, you played as Kanye’s late mother flying to heaven, set to a soundtrack conducted by Kanye himself.”
He added: “He was shaking his head as he described it, not like he thought it was a bad game… but more so in the way that he just sorta couldn’t believe that Kanye West was
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