Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamotois a Japanese video game designer and producer. He is best known as the creator of some of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling video games of all time...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionGame Designer
Date of Birth16 November 1952
CitySonobe, Japan
CountryJapan
long people enjoy
As long as I can enjoy something, other people can enjoy it, too.
thinking games long
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.
believe thinking long
I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.
games play long
Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.
definitely home
There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.
I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.
I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.
arcade create entertainment family games objective system ultimate until
We had been making arcade games up until that point. Our objective with the Nintendo entertainment system was to create the ultimate family entertainment system for the home.
arcade create entertainment family games objective system ultimate until
We had been making arcade games up until that point, ... Our objective with the Nintendo entertainment system was to create the ultimate family entertainment system for the home.
developers good japanese means people somehow taste terms videogames western
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 fields.
create people ways
I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.
ask entertain people single ways
Today, there are many, many ways to entertain people in one single videogame. And the Internet has made it so easy for people to ask for clues.
mario percent potential simply
I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential. When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.
I think we can let that one slide.