Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto (born November 16, 1952) is one of Nintendo's most respected video game developers.

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"A game that keeps a smile on the player's face is a wonderful thing. Nintendo's theme for 2006 will be 'Create new fun.' Spread the fun of games to everyone. To do this, we must return to the beginning, to recapture the essence that made people who enjoy games even now enjoy them in the first place."
- Source: Famitsu

"I don't know what Mario will look like next; maybe he will wear metallic clothing." - 1991, before the release of Super Mario 64.

"I would say the games that we're working on now, like the new Zelda, Twilight Princess, have hardcore content. And if you look at the Revolution's controllers, there's a nunchaku-style controller expansion that's really well suited to first-person shooters."
- Source: 2006 Issue of Maxim

"The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system."
- Source: USA Today

"What if everything that you see, is more than what you see? The person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it or accept that there is more to the world that you think.
- Source: Nintendo Power

"I'm not a nice guy. If I was a nice guy I'd just slide up to people and say 'Why don't you do this?', but no, sometimes you have to bite down and show that, like, 'I'm stroonng!'"

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

"What role does realism play in videogames I ask myself. Is this image more interesting? Sometimes.. however, what if a "detailed" hand with 5 fingers is catching a bottle but the fingers pass right through it? Is this still realistic? Rather than to show each meticulous and tiny detail of a finger, it is more important to make the end action look more credible by working on the movement and functionality of the arms and the hand in relation to the object."

"Nintendo is the company which makes the most innovative products. I am not sure that I would be able to make games like that elsewhere. At Nintendo I can make the games which I want."

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

"We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it, ... We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes."