Reggie Fils-Aime Quotes

During my tenure with Nintendo, we've pushed back development a number of times on key games - in the end, it's always worth it - because our focus on quality is so strong.

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

Game development is very difficult. Nobody sets out to create a game that's not fun. It's all of the challenges and difficulties that happen throughout development that determine whether a game is a failure or a success. I think playing those thousands of games is the single best and easiest way to learn from my predecessors.

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.

I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

Roblox is all about having great user-created content. It really ups the bar in the quality of the game.

A game's concept is one of its most important assets. I feel that we must aim to satisfy both beginners and experts, and that hasn't changed since I was making 'Kirby' games.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

Ours is a company that doesn't do annualized software, and so when we create a 'Zelda' game, when we create a 'Smash Bros.' game, or a 'Pokemon' experience comes on the platform, it needs to be exceptionally compelling because we plan on selling it for a very long time.

We do not focus test our games and never had. People ask why we don't, and I say, 'I have so many opinions in this studio, I don't need anymore!' We really debate everything - and it's a good debate. That's why the games turn out well: it's not me - it's not this guy - it's the collective. Together, we figure out what we want.

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don’t stick to that thought, then we’d have to lower the quality or break the balance of the game. Something that goes way off spec could break the entire game.

A world where people do not care about the quality of their experience is not a good world for Apple. A world where people care about those details and want to complain about them is the world where our values shine.

There are major benefits to building a game once and improving it over a long period of time based on user feedback and behavior. It's kind of depressing to have to build a game once, take all the user feedback, and then spend the next 3 years building another game.

I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.

We are building a brain trust of leading app talent. These are very highly regarded developers, and SGN is blessed to have them join to help build a great company that brings innovation, creativity, and joy to our users.

It's important not only to have the right timing of when the hardware is going to be released but also when we are going to be able to introduce quality software.

I'm in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.