Quotes By Shigeru Miyamoto

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.

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.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

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

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.

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

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

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.

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

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

I think everyone can enjoy games.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

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

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

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.

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

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

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

There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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