Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.

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.

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!

When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.