PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 58. Creator of Zelda & Mario. General Manager of Nintendo EAD. - Shigesato Itoi, age 62. Editor of the Ishinomori A Link to the Past manga. Director of the Mother (Earthbound) games. QUOTE: Miyamoto: [The Virtual Boy] was the kind of toy to get you excited and make you think, "This is what we can do now!" I imagined it as something that people who were on the lookout for new entertainment or who could afford to spend a bit of money could buy and enjoy even if the price was a little expensive. But the world treated it like a successor to the Game Boy system. Itoi: It's even got the word "boy" in its name. Miyamoto: That was also true within Nintendo. Our sales department treated the Virtual Boy as … something like the Famicom system. And when you do that, selling 100,000 is just a start. But if you think of it as just a fun toy, it's a big success if you break just 50,000.

Miyamoto on how the Virtual Boy's failure depends on the framing , 2011.

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 58. Creator of Zelda & Mario. - Gunpei Yokoi. Creator of Nintendo’s first video game, designer for the D-Pad, the Game & Watch, the Gameboy, and the Virtual Boy. QUOTE: Miyamoto: To start at the beginning, at the time I was interested in virtual reality, and was one of the staff that went on and on about how we should do something with 3D goggles. I didn't exactly twist his arm, but I would talk with Yokoi-san about how goggles would be interesting. But then when development of the Virtual Boy actually began, I was busy developing the Nintendo 64 system. Another complicated thing is that 3D graphics were a major theme for both Virtual Boy and Nintendo 64. Things may have turned out differently if the two devices shared their technology, but they had different purposes.

Miyamoto on his excitement for 3D goggles and encouraging Yokoi, 2011.

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 58. Creator of Zelda & Mario. General Manager of Nintendo EAD. - Shigesato Itoi, age 62. Editor of the Ishinomori A Link to the Past manga. Director of the Mother (Earthbound) games. QUOTE: Miyamoto: [The Virtual Boy] was the kind of toy to get you excited and make you think, "This is what we can do now!" I imagined it as something that people who were on the lookout for new entertainment or who could afford to spend a bit of money could buy and enjoy even if the price was a little expensive. But the world treated it like a successor to the Game Boy system. Itoi: It's even got the word "boy" in its name. Miyamoto: That was also true within Nintendo. Our sales department treated the Virtual Boy as … something like the Famicom system. And when you do that, selling 100,000 is just a start. But if you think of it as just a fun toy, it's a big success if you break just 50,000.

Miyamoto on how the Virtual Boy's failure depends on the framing , 2011.

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PEOPLE: - Satoru Iwata, age 51. President of Nintendo. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 58. Creator of Zelda and Mario. General Manager of Nintendo EAD. - Shigesato Itoi, age 62. Creator of Earthbound, My Neighbor Totoro voice actor, Iron Chef judge, founder of Creatures, Inc.. QUOTE: Iwata: Nintendo has focused even more on entering into daily life in the last few years with the Nintendo DS and Wii system, so Virtual Boy looks even more out of place. Miyamoto: A long time ago we did make out-of-place stuff, though. Itoi: Yeah. Like the Love Tester. Iwata: The Love Tester doesn't really fit into the family living room. [laughs] Miyamoto: And the Automatic Ultra Scope. Itoi: And that thing like a batting machine… Iwata: The Ultra Machine. Itoi: If you think of Virtual Boy as an extension of such toys, you could say it is quite in keeping with Nintendo's products.

Miyamoto and Iwata on how the Virtual Boy fit into Nintendo's lineup, 2011.

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