During Nintendo’s recent shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters in Kyoto, Japan on Tuesday, a few choice pieces of information emerged regarding possible future directions for star designer Shigeru Miyamoto’s games.

They may seem like throwaway comments… and they probably are, but Miyamoto has a habit of telegraphing what games he’s working on based on the discussion of his hobbies: his interest in gardening lead to the creation of Pikmin. The addition of a dog to the Miyamoto household produced Nintendogs. And when the legendary game developer became obsessed with measuring his waist and weighing himself, Wii Fit was born.

More recently, Miyamoto casually mentioned that he found cats interesting. Lo and behold, Nintendogs + Cats was just announced at E3 2010.

You see where I’m going with this.

So when Miyamoto talks about his hobbies and extra curricular activities, gamers, investors, current shareholders and even other game designers had better take note.

What’s Miyamoto been up to lately?

According to a question and answer session taking place during the recent shareholders meeting, Miyamoto noted that he’s taken an interest in swimming, and that he’s also a member of a youth guidance organisation of some description, spending time with school children. These activities were brought up in response to a question about what games he’s currently working on.

Combined with Miyamoto’s comments saying that, seeing as how it’s been ten years since the original Pikmin, and that he feels it’s time for the creation of a new Nintendo character, could we see a game from Nintendo in the future featuring the adventures of a super child swimmer, who explores the oceans and defeats enemies with nothing more than his or her extreme swimming skills?

My bet is ‘definitely not’ (Nintendo already made Windwaker), but I would bet that Miyamoto’s comments allude to his future work in some form.

Other morsels of information include that Miyamoto would like to get the new Pikmin game out quickly, and that he’s very busy with 3DS software development at the moment. Being busy, he says, is “a good condition.”

Also, just in case you were wondering, Nintendo currently has no plans for a theme park of its very own (although it seems as though the company has thought about it, going as far as to say that any Nintendo theme park wouldn’t simply be similar to current theme parks imbued with Nintendo characters and attributes), while the 3DS might still see the addition of a ‘play time’ display, similar to the feature included on the Wii.

Source: Andriasang and… Andriasang