A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time

I feel more reassured with physical media. Entertainment is something that will not just become digital.

Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.