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

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

I don't happen to think magazines should be full of thin people. What I do say is that we can all work a little harder with what we have. It is possible to achieve a better body shape and heart rate with nutrition and exercise.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.