Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009

“I think that video games are evil… [Gaming] is not a type of activity that provides any support to our daily lives, and all these consoles are just consuming electricity! Let’s say we have about three billion people on this planet wasting their time, bringing no productivity at all. Add 10 billion more people, and what would happen to our planet? Video games are assisting the death of our planet!”

Yoshiyuki Tomino, creator of the Gundam franchise, gives his keynote address at the CEDEC game conference