Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto was recently interviewed by Eurogamer about receiving the BAFTA Fellowship award recently and his thoughts on expanding the reach of video games today. Ultimately, Nintendo and Miyamoto would like games to be accepted by the general public in the same manner as TV or movies.
“For the past five or six years it has been one of Nintendo’s challenges that we would like to persuade the public to understand that videogames are actually a very convenient and useful means to use in their daily lives. And I think our endeavours have borne some fruits so far,” Miyamoto commented. “We’re hopeful we can expand that kind of endeavour so that in the future we’ll be able to see a situation where the general public are going to take for granted using videogames technology one way or another.”
The problem as Miyamoto sees it is that many people for a long while have felt intimidated by video games. “The fact is many people are afraid or scared of gaming technology,” he said. “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.”
Check out the full interview at Eurogamer. {link no longer active}
