Satoru Iwata Quotes

Few adults realize what a huge force video games have become in children's lives.

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games. There have been pockets of success, like at Time Warner. And Disney, with Club Penguin and Facebook games, has done a real good job of recognizing the business is not just about packaged goods.

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

[W]e spend three billion hours a week playing online games.

I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

Machine Zone is redefining the face of social mobile MMO games.

As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

Video games are ubiquitous now.

The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.

I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.

We were doing mobile games before the iPhone. We were doing free-to-play with 'Quake Live.' We wanted to do massively multiplayer stuff in the early days but didn't have the resources to do it.

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

People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.

Platforms are going to get bigger and bigger. Minecraft and Microsoft are just the tip of the iceberg. You're going to see more and more action in this space. Not just from Microsoft's Project Spark and Sony's LittleBigPlanet.

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.

To enable our vast offering of user-created play, Roblox offers a virtual construction and game-development platform where everyone has the power to make anything from avatar clothing and 3D models to virtual worlds and hardcore games.

Now I'm president. I get to meet a lot of other company presidents. They're such weird people. I'm fascinated by them. I use some of them as enemy characters in our games.

But I believe that as the quality of these platforms gets better, and as products like Roblox start to look and feel more like a Pixar movie, you're going to see the span of these platforms get bigger, and ultimately I believe there will be a platform company that's as big if not bigger than the publicly traded game publishers.

Nintendo is an entertainment company, but I think we need to broaden the definition of entertainment.

The amount of people online who game is huge. It's a community that's not very visible but is in full force.