Top 60 Nintendo Quotes

Nintendo, as a company, prides itself on doing things differently.

When I was a kid, I loved Nintendo.

Think of the sushi trend that started in the ’80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life.

I don’t care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can’t do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

One of my favorite games of all time was on Nintendo 64 – ‘NFL Blitz.’ I don’t know why, I just loved that game – being able to hit people after the play and stuff was always fun.

Some people will say Nintendo’s games are for children. But our goal is to boost the population of gamers by making games for all ages.

At Nintendo, we do not run from risk. We run to it.

We have to think of what kinds of experiences we can create that only Nintendo can create and what no other companies can create. So the result is the Nintendo 3DS.

I got to play with Nintendo’s Wii, yes it’s a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

We believe that there are a number of Nintendo titles that could do exceptionally well in the competitive play space.

We want Miitomo to create an atmosphere that’s distinctly Nintendo.

I’ve always loved technology. Growing up, I loved Nintendo and video games.

We do think deeply about the sequencing of our games, but having said that, Nintendo is well-known that if a game isn’t ready, we will push out the development in order to make sure that it is as strong as possible when the game launches.

Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.

Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we’re using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start.

Nintendo prides itself in being a technology-driven, mass-market, entertainment company.

For the Nintendo Switch, we were very deliberate in wanting to make sure, from a Nintendo publish standpoint, that we had a steady cadence of great games in addition to strong titles at launch.

I don’t really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Nintendo Switch is a home console you can play anywhere, with anyone. Clear. Compelling.

I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.

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.

Nintendo is an entertainment company, but I think we need to broaden the definition of entertainment.

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which doesn’t feel like L.A. It’s a bit different. It’s still L.A. County, but it’s not the same, it’s not the kind of place where they embrace you for being a weirdo. You were just left alone with your Nintendo, and that was my life.

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

We play a lot of Nintendo games, a lot of Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, a few different card games, really just stuff so we can stay loose and get your mind off of swimming before going into the meet with full focus.

I’ve conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I’ve encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

I’ve played a Nintendo Wii. I don’t see it as a competitor. It’s more of an expensive niche game device. We’re selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it’s still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.

I’ve always been a huge, huge gamer in general, and I definitely grew up with all Nintendo products, and the Super Mario franchise has been a franchise that has shaped culture.

October, November, December is a huge selling season globally for Nintendo.

Nintendo’s mission is to try to make people happy, to try to make people smile.

Nintendo looks at every technology. Often times, we look at technology before it really is considered mass-market ready. The original DS had touch screen on a device. First time that a mass market product had touch screen built in.

In the case of the Nintendo 3DS, it’s supposed to be the successor to Nintendo DS. As soon as the development of the original Nintendo DS was over, we started working on the successor to it.

If Nintendo asks consumers to pay more money than the other platforms, then it’s Nintendo’s mission to provide the added value for which the people are willing to pay. In order to do that, we must remain unique and cannot be reproduced somewhere else.

Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I’ve got a really short attention span.

There was this old soccer game called ‘Goal’ for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I’ve played everything from the old school games to the 360.

The first Nintendo game I ever got was ‘Clash at Demonhead.’ I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, ‘Sailor Moon.’

I got the first Nintendo system, and me and my mother would stay up and play it together for hours and hours and hours – mainly Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart!

I get asked constantly, what’s Nintendo’s approach to the esports community. And our approach is we want to enable consistent standards. We want to enable an approach to the competition that’s fair, that’s balanced, that enables the players to showcase their skills.

One of the things that… I’ve seen Nintendo do so well is provide a user interface that is intuitive, easy to navigate, easy to execute against – and in our view, that’s exactly what we’ve done on DSi.

Stop doing things that waste time. Don’t replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that’s something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.

We’ve always anticipated that, as Nintendo would demonstrate business potential with an idea, others would follow. And we believe that based on history – rumble, joystick – things that we invented, if you will, and first put in video games, others quickly latched on to.

I think Nintendo is fortunate, having been in this business for over 30 years, to really understand the dynamics and recognize that it’s software that drives hardware, and it’s new, unique, compelling experiences within software that make it stand out.

What Nintendo will do is simply try to do our best, believing that our strategy is right.

The advantage for Nintendo is that we always try to do things that other companies don’t try to do. That is something that the general public appreciates.

I had a Nintendo DS, which I liked. I had ‘NintenDogs’ for that, which is really cool.

I actually really liked the music to the ‘Friday the 13th’ Nintendo game. I still listen to it all the time. I sampled it in a couple records, too. It’s hypnotic and dark but also really pretty.

We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase even if they are not a necessity. If we stop doing that, no matter how successful Nintendo is at the moment, things will start going wrong in no time.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo ‘Mario Bros.’

We expect people’s experience with Miitomo to be a rewarding one in its own right. But at the same time, it’s also a way to have them engage – or reengage – with Nintendo.

When we were making games in the early ’90s for the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis, popular games didn’t have any real story.

Nintendo has been a very unique company because it’s not just hardware but also one of the major software publishers. Because it is in a unique position, it’s given us a unique advantage.

We really must recover our financial performance and take Nintendo back into the position in the marketplace where it is well appreciated.

I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original ‘Goldeneye.’ I’m that geek. I have an ‘NBA Jam’ arcade machine in my office at ‘SNL.’

Games have fascinated me my whole life, starting with ‘PacMan’ on my uncle’s PC. I moved up to classic Super Nintendo and then on to N64, and then XBox, DS and ‘WoW.’

I love video games. I had a Sega Genesis and a Nintendo 64 growing up, and I’ve had every ‘NBA Live’ that has ever come out.

We want the consumer who has bought into the Nintendo Switch platform. When there’s a great third party experience, we want them to jump in immediately.

You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it’s all kind of devices. So you’ve got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas… I’ve been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time.