Totilo vs. Miyamoto

MTV News' Stephen Totilo interviews Shigeru Miyamoto at E3. Being more of a game fan than your average mainstream outlet reporter, Totilo coaxes much more interesting comments out of Shigs than most can manage:

MTV: You've talked about the gamer stereotype — a solitary figure in a dark room with only the reflection of the TV screen illuminating their faces — and your intention for the Wii to change that image. You've been in the gaming industry a long time — when did that stereotype start to concern you?

Miyamoto: I've actually been concerned about that image for a long time because we've been seeing it for a long time. You may recall a book [about Nintendo's history] called "Game Over" that came out many years ago. That may have been when I first started growing concerned about that image because in the beginning there's a photo of a child playing a [game on a] TV in kind of a darkened room. We've been looking at that image since the days of the NES and I think it's important we break out of that image ... I think it's time to break free from that stereotypical definition of what a gamer is, because until we do, we'll never truly be part of the national or worldwide culture.