Quotes By Shigeru Miyamoto

I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

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

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

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

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.

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

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

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

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

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

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

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