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.
I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.
It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.
Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.
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.
What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.
I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.
I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.
Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.
There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.
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.
What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.
Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.
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.
Today, there are many, many ways to entertain people in one single videogame. And the Internet has made it so easy for people to ask for clues.
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.
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!
