What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.
Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.
Fortunately, 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.
If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.
Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.
Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.
Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!
Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
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 always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.
In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.
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.
Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.
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.
As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.
As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
Angry 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.
