I would prefer to grow with the team inside Nintendo rather than taking anyone from outside. It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

I believe that any sort of changes to interface that allows people to get into games and enjoy games is a great trend.

In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.