Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.

Shigeru Miyamoto
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
Shigeru Miyamoto

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

I think everyone can enjoy games.

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.