A copy of 1984'sGolfwas embedded in theNintendo Switchfirmware. Activating it required the internal system clock to be set to July 11 (Iwata'sdeath anniversary) and performing Iwata's signature "directly to you" hand gesture with both Joy-Con controllers on the HOME Menu. If successful, a...
Satoru Iwata's death comes as Nintendo tries to move to mobile. He was loved by fans, and there's no clear successor yet.
“I don’t think the next-generation consoles that Sony and Microsoft are considering have a future. If I thought so, we would be doing the same thing, right?” Iwata says, according to subtitles on the video. “Even if I had a machine with 10 times the processing power and 20 times...
Remember, as Iwata said when asked at the last investors meeting about NX, weeks before his death, he said something to the effect of "about NX, I can say that we're always thinking about how to best accomodate the Japanese market that prefers handheld play, and the Western m...
Satoru Iwata, the late Nintendo president and CEO "with the heart of a gamer," is the winner of the 2015 Golden Joystick Awards Lifetime Achievement
This book is a sort of cobbled together autobiography of Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's former CEO from 2002 until his death in 2015. The book is made up primarily of interviews posted on the Hobonichi website, and so...
It is a rare kind of CEO whose death shakes not only their own company and the markets, but an entire culture. We will miss you, Mr Iwata