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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I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

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

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different...

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

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 never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

Shigeru Miyamoto

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

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

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

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 videoga...

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

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

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