Quotes on Nintendo

Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

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

If we don't take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we're not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road.

I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance.

Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.

The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us - that there is merit in doing what is different - and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times.

If you want to make short-term profits from the stock price, then I am a very bad president. But I don't think I'm so bad for maximizing the long-term value of Nintendo.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.