As an example of this, and in conclusion, I would like to tell you about something that recently happened very close to me. At home, I have a little boy who will soon turn 5 and my wife, who is about the same age as I am. I’ll tell you more about my son in a little bit. But my wife, who has lived with me, her husband, who works at Nintendo for over 15 years, has absolutely no interest in games and takes the stance that they are not necessary at all. In that way, I suppose my wife is kind of similar to Miyamoto’s. And because she feels this way, she treats me like the happy-go-lucky who plays the games that he loves every day at work without understanding my day-to-day hardships at all. I feel like I’m saying “at all" too much; I’ll change that to “very much."

Back to my home life: I had never even considered taking a game console into a household with a small child and wife like that until, one day, my son said, “I want a Wii Remote." I think he probably saw one in a TV commercial one day. What really struck me was he didn’t say “I want a Wii." He said he wanted a Wii Remote. To his eyes, that remote looked interesting, and he really wanted to hold it. He had no idea at all that it was connected to a game machine. It was such a surprise to me. Next, after placating my wife’s concerns that five years old was too early to start playing games, I brought a Wii console home along with Wii Sports because they were first-time gamers, and although I thought it might be too much, Twilight Princess.

I started by having my son play Wii Sports. I don’t mean to praise my own company’s product, but even my five year-old son was able to play Wii Sports. Take boxing for example: without understanding the rules, he knew that all he had to do was move the Wii Remotes relative to the character on the screen, and it looked like he was having a great time doing it. I thought that this would be the case, so I wasn’t all that surprised. Then, when he saw the copy of Twilight Princess on the table and asked, “What’s this? I want to try this too." I thought it would be too much for him, but because he asked, I started the game up and handed him the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.

Because the controls aren’t as simple as with Wii Sports, my son was a little lost in the beginning. After I showed him how the controls work, he was able to fish and call the hawk in Ordon village at the beginning of the game. He slowly got used to the controls, and was finally able to point and shoot targets accurately with the slingshot. After my wife made him stop, saying that playing games too long was bad for his eyes, he asked, “Can I play Zelda again tomorrow?" A five year-old was able to play Zelda; this was a huge surprise.