I could make Halo. It’s not that I couldn’t design that game. It’s just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

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

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

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.