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:

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad. (Shigeru Miyamoto)
It isn't about "games", for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once. View quote
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I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking. View quote
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The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system. View quote
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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. View quote
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When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed. (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Controller is so intuitive, even your mom can play. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Players are artists who create their own reality within the game. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't know what Mario will look like next; maybe he will wear metallic clothing with a red hat. View quote
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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll. View quote
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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. View quote
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Any new media or industry that grows rapidly is going to be criticized. That's just because the older, more established media have been around, and a lot of adults can be very conservative. They may not have an open mind to new things that weren't around when they were growing up, and are replacing the things they grew up with... over the years I've seen this standard image of a child playing a video game in which the child is alone in a darkened room, with his face very close to the TV, with the light of the TV reflecting off his face, holding the controller and just staring at the TV. I'd really like to be able to change that image of video games into something that's a little more positive. (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new. View quote
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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others. View quote
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