Quotes by Shigeru Miyamoto

“A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.”

“Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping...”

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

“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 ...”

“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.”

“Challenge for the player is the most important thing. In the Mario games for example, the player can go back and try to finish the game without collecting a single coin. I think great video games a...”

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

“I could make Halo. It's not that I couldn't design that game. It's just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make th...”

“A game that keeps a smile on the player's face is a wonderful thing. Nintendo's theme for 2006 will be Create new fun. Spread the fun of games to everyone. To do this, we must return to the beginni...”

“Any new media or industry that grows rapidly is going to be criticized. That's just because the older, more established media have been around, and a lot of adults can be very conservative. They ma...”

“Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. When I am a child, creating, ...”

“I don't know what Mario will look like next; maybe he will wear metallic clothing with a red hat.”

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

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

“What if everything that you see, is more than what you see? The person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't...”

“Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, ...”

“So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.”

“It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself.”

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

“If you release a game in a bad state, you will always regret it.”