150 Quotes by Shigeru Miyamoto

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

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

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.

Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.

A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

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

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.

Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock-n-roll.

Nintendo’s philosophy is never to go the easy path; it’s always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.