Short but sweet interview with video game god Shigeru Miyamoto by the Guardian Unlimited’s Greg Howson.

How important is it to widen the market behind gaming’s core audience?

We need to widen the appeal of gaming to include more of the general public as it is hard to sustain the current audience. There is a big line separating gamers and non-gamers. We are trying to create games that excite everyone. From the hardware side we want to create an easy interface so people can say, “this I can touch”. We designed the DS with this concept in mind. When we advertise the DS we never call it an advanced version of the Game Boy Advance but rather a new entertainment gadget. Our mission right now is to find subjects that will appeal to general people and create a new market.

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