TITLE
Solved: If Miyamoto Never Said His Most Famous Quote, Who Did?
AUTHOR
Kate Willaert
PUBLICATION
A Critical Hit
YEAR
2023
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad” is a quote often attributed to Miyamoto, but where’s it really from?In a Half-Life 25th anniversary documentary that launched this weekend, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell paraphrases a decades-old bit of gaming industry wisdom, saying, “Late is just for a little while, suck is forever. Right?”
This quote is often attributed to Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto — who famously led the development of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend Of Zelda — in a variation that goes:
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”
But when I tried locating the source of this quote, the earliest I could find it attributed to Miyamoto wasn’t an interview, but a 2003 Usenet post complaining about Rebellion’s first person shooter Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death, of all things.
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Siobhan Beeman
Shigeru Miyamoto
Gabe Newell
Jason Schreiber