Satoru Iwata Quotes

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Satoru Iwata

Profession : Businessman

Birth : December 6, 1959

In Europe, we packed in Wii Sports with the console, so one way or another, people processed the Wii by enjoying Wii Sports. The unique, interactive nature of the game was spread thanks to the excitement from the consumer.

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It was very fortunate for Wii that a lot of households around the world decided to connect the Wii to the living room TV.

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We think there is definitely a lot of use for online connectivity in creative games.

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One thing about the entertainment industry - it's not something that people need to survive.

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I think that Nintendo puts a lot more emphasis and uses the controller more than any of the other companies.

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It's not part of our culture to even think about outright purchasing a third-party developer.

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We really want to change the structure of home entertainment.

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We wanted people to remember the name as soon as they heard it. When people become so accustomed to the Wii name, nobody is going to say it's a strange name, just like nobody is going to say that Google is a strange name or IKEA is a strange name today.

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In the digital world, content has the tendency to lose value, especially on smart devices. We finally found solutions to the problem. We will not merely port games developed for our dedicated systems to smart devices just as they are - we will develop brand new software which perfectly matches the play style and control mechanisms of smart devices.

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If we don't take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we're not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road.

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Even before the advent of smart devices, we employed touchscreens for our games with Nintendo DS, and we also adopted accelerometers for our Wii Remotes faster than smart devices did.

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Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start.

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If the first entrant always wins the market, the Dreamcast must have won the race against the PS2, for example. There are many precedents like that in the past. The first to market is not necessarily the winner in the race.

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What Nintendo will do is simply try to do our best, believing that our strategy is right.

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We really cannot forget about the existence of the avid game fans - the fans of Nintendo games.

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For young players, classic games are brand new. For others, they are a way to feel young again.

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Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

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In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it then. So I went to classes on engineering and early computer science.

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When it came time to take a job, I had the distinction of joining the smallest company of any graduate in my class. I left to become only the fifth full-time employee of HAL, and when I told my father this, you can imagine, it was not the happiest moment in the history of my family.

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People sometimes ask me what I did when I was hired at HAL. The answer is that I was a programmer. And an engineer. And a designer. And I marketed our games. I also ordered food. And I helped clean up. And, it was all great fun.

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