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.

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.

Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

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

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.

When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.