Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

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Shigeru Miyamoto

Profession : Designer

Birth : November 16, 1952

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 think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

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

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

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.

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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

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

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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.

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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.

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When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

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

Shigeru Miyamoto