Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.”

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

“I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.”

“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.”