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.

All the time, players are forced to do their utmost. If they are challenged to the limit, is it really fun for them?

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.