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Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

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

– 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

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.

– 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

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.

– 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

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

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I’m making a videogame.

– 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

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

– 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

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

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

– Shigeru Miyamoto

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

– Shigeru Miyamoto

I think everyone can enjoy games.

– Shigeru Miyamoto

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

– Shigeru Miyamoto

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

– Shigeru Miyamoto

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

– 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

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

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

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

– 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

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

– Shigeru Miyamoto

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

– Shigeru Miyamoto

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

– Shigeru Miyamoto

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

– 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

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

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

– Shigeru Miyamoto

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