Satoru Iwata
Satoru Iwata
Satoru Iwatawas a Japanese video game programmer and businessman who served as the fourth president and chief executive officerof Nintendo. He is widely regarded as a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games to a wider audience by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 December 1959
CityHokkaido, Japan
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This is an extremely exciting innovation -- one that will thrill current players and entice new ones.
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These products propose a different use for the DS in entirely new fields.
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The development of this game came from our belief that people wanted something new. In this case, the game took the form of a treadmill for the mind.
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I can only say that it's coming out during 2006, but it will be after the current fiscal year.
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If we continue down the same path as we have in the past, people may become tired of gaming,
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There would be no paperbacks, no romance novels, no magazines.
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In the US, we're going to see the next generation cost an awful lot. I really don't think that there's going to be a lot of acceptance by current customers of the $60 price tag. They may allow that for a limited number of premium titles, but not all.
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We don't think it's necessary to do the simultaneous worldwide launch simply because others are doing this.
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We hope that our user base will become even wider with our software lineup, which we believe has enough teeth for experienced players.
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We hope to make it a simultaneous worldwide release as much as it's possible.
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We thought about how everyone in the family uses the TV remote, but some people don't want to even touch the game controller.
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Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.
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We are all too keenly aware that those of you who supported us by purchasing the 3DS in the beginningmay feel betrayed and criticize this decision [to cut the console's price]…
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The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us -- that there is merit in doing what is different -- and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times