This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

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

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

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