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

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.

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

A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I feel the need to go see. So far, from what I’ve seen on the show this year, there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.

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.