Quotes from Shigeru Miyamoto

I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

Today, there are many, many ways to entertain people in one single videogame. And the Internet has made it so easy for people to ask for clues.

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

I would prefer to grow with the team inside Nintendo rather than taking anyone from outside. It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.