Miyamoto is tough on the ideas of new developers, says people are afraid of gaming, not socially accepted like movies...yet

“When a young planner approaches me with a game idea, I’m rather a tough guy! And I most often reject it - or turn it back to them. A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once. It’s easy for people to come up with a good idea that can focus on one problem, but that’s not good enough. So forever I’m sending back new ideas from the planners, and I say: ‘This time I can’t use your idea but please keep it in your mind and work on new ideas again and again and then you’ll be able to find out some new, good ideas that can solve many other issues at one time.’ Then that’s the idea that we can use.” - Shigeru Miyamoto

Miyamoto also discusses working to make video games more socially acceptable, which is something he’s been focusing on for awhile now.

“The fact is many people are afraid or scared of gaming technology. Actually it’s very convenient, useful technology and as long as you can have some time to get accustomed there’s nothing to be afraid of at all. So my responsibility here must be to try to let people understand how convenient and useful game technology is and try to remove hurdles so that even your grandpa and grandma are waiting to turn on the power switch of your console easily without hesitation. Very frankly speaking, I have to admit videogames still have some way to go in order to reach the level of movies when it comes to social acceptance by the general public. That reminds me I’m really grateful to receive this kind of award, and at the same time reminds me we still have to carry on making a great effort.”