Quotes by Shigeru Miyamoto

About Shigeru Miyamoto:

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer. He is best known as the creator of some of the best-selling, most critically acclaimed, most enduring, and most influential games and franchises of all time.
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Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think everyone can enjoy games.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

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

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

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.

Shigeru Miyamoto

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

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

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

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

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

Shigeru Miyamoto

There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Author Bio

  • NameShigeru Miyamoto
  • DescriptionJapanese video game designer and producer
  • BornNovember 16, 1952
  • CountryJapan
  • ProfessionDesigner; Programmer; Artist
  • WorksMario; Luigi; Princess Peach
  • AwardsChevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Princess Of Asturias Award - Communications And Humanities