But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.
The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.
I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.
Coincidental to my leaving the company, I would like to make one request: that Nintendo give birth to wholly new ideas and create hardware which reflects that ideal.
There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games.
After my father died, we began to live. He was psychotic. He really was terrifying.
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.
Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.