Shigeru Miyamoto quotes

Shigeru Miyamoto is a renowned Japanese video game designer and producer, widely recognized for creating iconic franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong. His innovative approach transformed the video game industry and popular culture worldwide. He continues to inspire countless game developers and players with his creativity and vision. Here are 64 of his quotes:

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. When I am a child, creating, I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

Shigeru Miyamoto

The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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 than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Controller is so intuitive, even your mom can play.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

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

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

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory [to store data such as games and photos] and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I don't know what Mario will look like next; maybe he will wear metallic clothing with a red hat.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto