Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line.

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

I'm in the business to make games - I love entertaining people.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

I see games... as the ultimate combination of art and technology.

I just wanted to make video games.

There are several cool cross-overs between 'Blue Shift,' 'Opposing Force' and 'Half-Life.' The plots are all designed to work nicely with themselves and the observant player will catch many cross-references.

I do a lot of gaming.

The very first game I worked on was for DreamWorks Interactive's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park.'

We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.

I think it's safe to say that 'Half-Life' was influenced by every first person action game that preceded it.

I'm a big gamer.

For 'Monster Hunter,' we needed insane landscapes.

I've never made a game for a high-definition platform. That's definitely something I'm interested in.

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games.

I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker.

Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

'Dark Souls' is my life's work; everything I came up with for 'Dark Souls III' is based on my personal preferences.

It's true that there was a lot of influence from 'Tenchu.' We even pondered making 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice' a part of the 'Tenchu' series at first.

'Gears Of War' is one of my favourite games that I immersed myself in playing for long time, and Mr. Cliff Bleszinski is one of the greatest game creators that I respect.

Nintendo's approach to our work is to greatly increase the population of gamers.

It's true that I'm sad about not being involved in the development of 'Dark Souls II,' because I've worked on 'Demon's Souls' and 'Dark Souls'' development for the past five years.

I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.