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

All the time, players are forced to do their utmost. If they are challenged to the limit, is it really fun for them?

Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time

Programming is all about numbers.