Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself with more advanced games.

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

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

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.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

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

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