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“There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.”
“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.”
“I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.”
“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.”
“Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.”
“Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.”
“As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.”
“I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.”
“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.”
“What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.”
“Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.”
“I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.”
“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.”
“Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.”