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

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

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

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.

We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.