The game industry changed with the launch of Grand Theft Auto 3 in 2001. It certainly wasn't the first game with adult content, but its astronomical success helped prove there was a giant audience out there for mature titles. Many major publishers were suddenly a lot more willing to make games that the ESRB would likely slap with an M rating, but there was one notable exception: Nintendo.
"The games industry is broader than ever, and there are many different ways to produce a game these days," Shigeru Miyamoto said in a 2003 interview with the Swedish Superplay Magazine. That interview has had various translations circulating around the internet for years, including this one from the delightfully named Miyamoto Shrine.
