It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.
Shigeru MiyamotoAngry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.
Shigeru MiyamotoIf we end up creating a gameplay structure where it makes sense for, whether it's a female to go rescue a male or a gay man to rescue a lesbian woman or a lesbian woman to rescue a gay man, we might take that approach.
Shigeru MiyamotoWhen we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.
Shigeru MiyamotoFortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.
Shigeru MiyamotoWe 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.
Shigeru Miyamoto