What ToriJ and Vyk said. Maybe someone here is more knowledgeable but from what I understand, Miyamoto is a lot like Sid Meier these days: Nintendo games honor his philosophy and he heavily promotes them but he hasn't been the driving force behind a game in quite some time. And Sakaguchi is someone who always brought the best out of the people underneath him. All of his colleagues and protégés have gone on to become accomplished game directors in their own right but he himself hasn't been able to recreate what he achieved when he had the resources of a giant publisher at his fingertips. Maybe that makes him a better choice than Miyamoto.

But I would definitely go with Kojima and his consistency through to the present day. Even if you don't vibe with what he was trying to do with story or game balance, he always nails the execution on at least one ambitious design objective, in a big way that demonstrates why he really is in a class of his own apart from these other game directors.

Crazy how Konami forced him out and fired him.