Shigeru Miyamoto

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

In other words, I’m not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time,

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I believe that any sort of changes to interface that allows people to get into games and enjoy games is a great…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I feel more reassured with physical media. Entertainment is something that will not just become digital.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto

What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Shigeru Miyamoto