Shigeru Quotes

Arbogast had then assembled a dream team of creative consultants and contractors to help make his bold claim a reality, luring some of the videogame industry's brightest stars away from their own companies and projects, with the sole promise of collaborating on his groundbreaking new MMOs. That was how gaming legends like Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gabe Newell, and Shigeru Miyamoto had all wound up as consultants on both Terra Firma and Armada - along with several big Hollywood filmmakers, including James Cameron, who had contributed to the EDA's realistic ship and mech designs, and Peter Jackson, whose Weta Workshop had rendered all of the in-game cinematics. ~ Ernest Cline

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly ~ Shigeru Egami

Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded. ~ 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

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. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers. ~ Shigeru Yoshida

Akagi, the man named Akagi Shigeru. Money, fame, power... all the things that most people desire... he never set his sights on such things. All he ever was, was himself. ~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto

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

I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

I feel more reassured with physical media. Entertainment is something that will not just become digital. ~ 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

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

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

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that. ~ 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

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

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. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences. ~ 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

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

What if you walk along and everything that you see is more than what you see–the person in the T-shirt and slacks is a warrior, the space that appears empty is a secret door to an alternate world? What if, on a crowded street, you look up and see something appear that should not, given what we know, be there? You either shake your head and dismiss it or you accept that there is much more to the world than we think. Perhaps it really is a doorway to another place. If you choose to go inside you might find many expected things. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

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

I believe that any sort of changes to interface that allows people to get into games and enjoy games is a great trend. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play. ~ 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

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854. ~ Shigeru Yoshida

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

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years. ~ Shigeru Yoshida

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. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

On the 26th of December of last year, I took office for my second term as prime minister. And it is the first time ever since then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, during the occupation period, that a prime minister is taking this position for the second time with a number of years in between. ~ Shinzo Abe

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

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! ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Will saw the first Senshi officer release and instantly knew where the arrow was aimed. 'They've spotted Shigeru!' He was about to turn and shove Shigeru to the ground, but as he did so, his eye caught a flicker of movement and he spun back.
When asked later about what he did next, he could never explain how he managed it. Nor could he ever repeat the feat. He acted totally from instinct, an unbelievable piece of coordination between hand and eye.
The Senshi arrow flashed downward, heading directly for Shigeru. Will flicked his bow at it, caught it and deflected it from its course. The arrowhead screeched on the hard, rocky ground and the arrow skittered away. Even Halt took a second to be impressed.
'My god!' he said. 'How did you do that? ~ John Flanagan

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

Selethen was names Hawk. Alyss had been given the title of Tsuru, or Crane. . .Evanlynn was Kitsune, the Nihon-Jan word for Fox . . .Halt strangly enough had been known only as Halto-san. . . But Will had been taken aback in his confrotation with Arisaka to discover that his name - Chocho - meant "butterfly". It seemed a highly unwarlike name to him- not at all glamorous.And he was puzzled to know why they had selected it. His friends,of course, were delighted in helping him guess the reason.
"I assume its because you're such a snazzy dresser," Evanlynn said. "You Rangers are like a riot of color after all."
Will glared at her and was mortified to hear Alyss snigger at the princess's sally. He'd thought Alyss, at least, might stick up for him.
"I think it might be more to do with the way he raced around the the training ground, darting here and there to correct the way a man might be holding his sheidl then dashing off to show someone how to put theri body weight into their javelin cast," said Horace, a little more sympathetically. Then he ruined the effect by adding thoughtlessly, "I must say, your cloak did flutter around like a butterfly's wings."
"It was neither of those things," Halt said finally, and they all turned to look at him. "I asked Shigeru," he explained. "He said that they had all noticed how Will's mind and imagination darts from one idea to another at such high speed," . .
Will looked mollified. "Isuppose it's not too bad it you put ~ John Flanagan

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

A messenger? Who is it? Is Lord Shigeru expecting a message? Do we know what it's about?" George's questions came tumbling out before Horace had a chance to begin answering. He shook his head and smiled at his old childhood companion. "I don't know. I don't know. And ... I don't know," he said. He saw George's shoulders relax as he realized his questions had been unreasonable. "I imagine we'll find out when he comes up to us." "Of ~ John Flanagan

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time, ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

It was now late evening and Erika still couldn't sleep, one of the reasons was because of Shigeru, she had passed by his room and heard his unbearable screams as the spikes of bamboo were pulled out from his body followed by the strong stench of blood, she caused this to happen to him, during her bath Yukari told her not to blame herself for this, but it was, if she wasn't here then this would have never happened. ~ Tarynne Bourret

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

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing. ~ 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

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

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

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. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. ~ Shigeru Ban

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 that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

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

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

I think everyone can enjoy games. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes! ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play. ~ 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

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently. ~ Shigeru Ban

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

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. ~ Shigeru Ban

So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war. ~ Shigeru Yoshida

I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

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

There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt].
'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked.
Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win. ~ John Flanagan

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce. ~ Shigeru Yoshida

Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him. ~ Shigeru Egami

What if everything you see is more than what you see
the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

If we end up creating a gameplay structure where it makes sense for, whether it's a female to go rescue a male or a gay man to rescue a lesbian woman or a lesbian woman to rescue a gay man, we might take that approach. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history. ~ Shigeru Yoshida

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

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom. ~ Shigeru Yoshida

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade. ~ Shigeru Yoshida

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. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto