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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

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

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

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 like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto