Shigeru Miyamoto quotes - page 2

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing. (Shigeru Miyamoto)

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

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What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

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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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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

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

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

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I think everyone can enjoy games.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

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

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.

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

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

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

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

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)

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

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

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.

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Photo: English: Minister's Secretariat Personnel Division日本語: 大臣官房人事課, CC BY 4.0

Occupation: Japanese Designer
Born: November 16, 1952
Quotes count: 64
Wikipedia: Shigeru Miyamoto

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