150 Quotes by Shigeru Miyamoto

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he’ll wear metallic clothes!

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can’t do it, some other game designer will.

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

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that’s what I want to do.

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.

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.

I’d like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

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.

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.