A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
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.
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.
The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.
When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.
I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.
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.
To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.
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 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 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.
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 for throughout my career.
Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.
Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.
I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.
My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
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.
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.
I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.
