Shigeru Miyamoto's Quotes

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.

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.

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

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.

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

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

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

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

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

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

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

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

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

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

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

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!

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

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

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.

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