Satoru Iwata Quotes

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

The game business reinvents itself every five years.

I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

The great games are the space sims and driving sims and these experiences where you're basically sitting at a table with nothing happening in front of you. A lot of interesting things are evolving there. There are great games that can be made.

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

Every application designed for 2D interfaces will be obsoleted by AR.

An entire generation of talented people - engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers - have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity.

Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been experiments around of people trying to do that, and always excited about it.

In any case, 'Nier: Automata' is not a perfect game. But I am proud of everything in it.

I think there is a lot of technology that is finding its way into our storytelling - it's pretty unavoidable.

Looking ahead, we're doubling down on our commitment to building the most advanced tools and technology to take our creators and players into the metaverse of the future.

Videogames have existed for almost 40 years now, yet every year, we see major and unexpected advances.

Who knows what form storytelling will take in the future?