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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.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.
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Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
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I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.
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A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
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I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.
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A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time
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Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.
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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.
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