Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

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

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.

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

If we end up creating a gameplay structure where it makes sense for, whether it's a female to go rescue a male or a gay man to rescue a lesbian woman or a lesbian woman to rescue a gay man, we might take that approach.

The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.