R.I.P. Iwata-san. Thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time. It's a sad day for the gaming world in general. Thanks for so many happy Nintendo gaming memories over the past 20 years. Gone too soon. :(
Love this quote of his: "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer."
There's a really good article in The Guardian about him, and the decisions he made with incredible foresight. In the end, he was one of us, a gamer who got to one of the 3 top positions in videogaming and the industry is a far worse place without him in it.
There's a good point in that article - he was a top CEO of a top company who wasn't half-hated and half-loved. I don't think many had a bad word to say about him and I thought he had a great sense of humour in his Iwata Asks interviews.
Got to wonder now he's gone is Nintendo f*cked? It was a little behind the times, it was a little slow, it was a little f*cked in comparison to the other big boys.
I think as always the fans (....and fanboi's) will carry the company through, but with a character as inspirational as him gone I wonder. Who within the company could possibly replace him? Will they plant a stooge in his place (Or a pikmin)?
Hmmmmmm? Who knows?
I say Koji Kondo for President, he may be a composer but some of his music is legendary, and his name is to Nintendo games, what Phil Collins and Elton John are to Disney films.
I suppose the fans would want Miyamoto but I really can't see that happening. He's 60 years old now and Nintendo's has always had presidents for, well, decades. I'm sure Iwata would have continued the trend had he not sadly passed away so young. I think it will be like Iwata's appointment, someone low-key we've never really heard of. I'd rather Miyamoto design, direct and produce anyway.
I can't see Nintendo going anywhere. The Wii-U has been a disaster of almost Virtual Boy proportions but they've enough cash to ride it out and certainly the talent to come back. Never write off Nintendo, they always come back with a product that conquers the world and I'm convinced they will do so again. One of Iwata's last decisions, something he was against for many years, was to bring Nintendo games to the phone market. If any company is going to make a game that is finally worth playing on a phone, it has to be Nintendo. It won't surprise me if they release something as integral to playing on a phone as Tetris was on the original Gameboy.
the Wii u and the cheapo red wii were just trying to milk the development cycle a bit TOO much.
sad to say I can see them going the way of sega , as the 2 others pretty much can chuck endless money at their products. I won't buy any more nintendo products after they shut down their servers for wii and ds..
Nintendo never would have become a great money maker without his help. His ability to understand what is great, beat most "gaming journalists" and critics. Remember the time when the DS was revealed and everyone in the industry and journalists said it will lose badly against the PSP? Or that the Wii was destined to be useless while it became the best-selling console of that generation? I know that this is mainly due to the quality of the gaming industry that can only focus on HD and graphics, but it still needs an extraordinary company to be able to destroy this misconception, and others are still not able to play catch-up.
Unfortunately, after they got those big hits they became to cave in after too many external pressure, and it's then that I gave up on Nintendo. How they have handled on the massive successes of their consoles alienated many people, and how they abused the law, to ban the reuse of the DS as a small programmable computer is something that I will not forgive, at least not in the near future.
The 3DS was doomed from the beginning when all the gaming journalists were massive enthousiastic about the 3D, like they were about the PSP when it was showcased. The Wii U, well, as Nintendo already had stated, they (the software part of Nintendo) were (and are) not ready for HD or the second screen yet, so that's a problem.
I hope the new guy will be able to withstand the external pressure and giving the necessary power to the software part to support the hardware.
Nintendo never would have become a great money maker without his help.
You're aware that they did stuff before the DS and Wii? Famicom, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Pokemon all came before Iwata and made ****-loads of cash.
The 3DS was doomed from the beginning when all the gaming journalists were massive enthousiastic about the 3D, like they were about the PSP when it was showcased.
OKay, it's not quite DS figures but in what world would 50m+ hardware sales be considered doomed?!
You're aware that they did stuff before the DS and Wii? Famicom, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Pokemon all came before Iwata and made ****-loads of cash.
No worries, if you haven't even worn out at least one Game & Watch I wouldn't even consider calling you a Nintendo fanboi (one day I will be able to find people that can fix them, if I still can find them).
One, we're talking about the Iwata period, and secondly, yes, those are good money makers, but not as good as the Wii and the DS.
The 3DS was doomed from the beginning when all the gaming journalists were massive enthousiastic about the 3D, like they were about the PSP when it was showcased.
OKay, it's not quite DS figures but in what world would 50m+ hardware sales be considered doomed?!
Have you seen the amount of new software coming out for the 3DS/2DS? Even the Spectrum have more this year. :P
You're aware that they did stuff before the DS and Wii? Famicom, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Pokemon all came before Iwata and made ****-loads of cash.
No worries, if you haven't even worn out at least one Game & Watch I wouldn't even consider calling you a Nintendo fanboi (one day I will be able to find people that can fix them, if I still can find them).
One, we're talking about the Iwata period, and secondly, yes, those are good money makers, but not as good as the Wii and the DS.
Well your post did imply that they weren't a money-making behemoth until Iwata took over, but I'll let you off :-) I don't know the figures but it wouldn't surprise me if Pokemon has made more money than anything they've ever done. That IP has been huge for nearly 20 years.
The 3DS was doomed from the beginning when all the gaming journalists were massive enthousiastic about the 3D, like they were about the PSP when it was showcased.
OKay, it's not quite DS figures but in what world would 50m+ hardware sales be considered doomed?!
Have you seen the amount of new software coming out for the 3DS/2DS? Even the Spectrum have more this year. :P
The Vic-20 has probably had more software released than the 3DS has over the last couple of years ;-) I haven't bought a title for mine since Ocarina of Time, and that was what, 2011? Oh, I did buy Out Run but that doesn't count :-)
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RIP.
A great programmer and passionate about games.
There's a really good article in The Guardian about him, and the decisions he made with incredible foresight. In the end, he was one of us, a gamer who got to one of the 3 top positions in videogaming and the industry is a far worse place without him in it.
There's a good point in that article - he was a top CEO of a top company who wasn't half-hated and half-loved. I don't think many had a bad word to say about him and I thought he had a great sense of humour in his Iwata Asks interviews.
I think as always the fans (....and fanboi's) will carry the company through, but with a character as inspirational as him gone I wonder. Who within the company could possibly replace him? Will they plant a stooge in his place (Or a pikmin)?
Hmmmmmm? Who knows?
I say Koji Kondo for President, he may be a composer but some of his music is legendary, and his name is to Nintendo games, what Phil Collins and Elton John are to Disney films.
I can't see Nintendo going anywhere. The Wii-U has been a disaster of almost Virtual Boy proportions but they've enough cash to ride it out and certainly the talent to come back. Never write off Nintendo, they always come back with a product that conquers the world and I'm convinced they will do so again. One of Iwata's last decisions, something he was against for many years, was to bring Nintendo games to the phone market. If any company is going to make a game that is finally worth playing on a phone, it has to be Nintendo. It won't surprise me if they release something as integral to playing on a phone as Tetris was on the original Gameboy.
Heard about this just as I was heading out yesterday...total shock! Thought his Iwata Asks and other videos were great fun...
sad to say I can see them going the way of sega , as the 2 others pretty much can chuck endless money at their products. I won't buy any more nintendo products after they shut down their servers for wii and ds..
Nintendo never would have become a great money maker without his help. His ability to understand what is great, beat most "gaming journalists" and critics. Remember the time when the DS was revealed and everyone in the industry and journalists said it will lose badly against the PSP? Or that the Wii was destined to be useless while it became the best-selling console of that generation? I know that this is mainly due to the quality of the gaming industry that can only focus on HD and graphics, but it still needs an extraordinary company to be able to destroy this misconception, and others are still not able to play catch-up.
Unfortunately, after they got those big hits they became to cave in after too many external pressure, and it's then that I gave up on Nintendo. How they have handled on the massive successes of their consoles alienated many people, and how they abused the law, to ban the reuse of the DS as a small programmable computer is something that I will not forgive, at least not in the near future.
The 3DS was doomed from the beginning when all the gaming journalists were massive enthousiastic about the 3D, like they were about the PSP when it was showcased. The Wii U, well, as Nintendo already had stated, they (the software part of Nintendo) were (and are) not ready for HD or the second screen yet, so that's a problem.
I hope the new guy will be able to withstand the external pressure and giving the necessary power to the software part to support the hardware.
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You're aware that they did stuff before the DS and Wii? Famicom, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Pokemon all came before Iwata and made ****-loads of cash.
OKay, it's not quite DS figures but in what world would 50m+ hardware sales be considered doomed?!
One, we're talking about the Iwata period, and secondly, yes, those are good money makers, but not as good as the Wii and the DS.
Have you seen the amount of new software coming out for the 3DS/2DS? Even the Spectrum have more this year. :P
Games List 2016 - Games List 2015 - Games List 2014
Well your post did imply that they weren't a money-making behemoth until Iwata took over, but I'll let you off :-) I don't know the figures but it wouldn't surprise me if Pokemon has made more money than anything they've ever done. That IP has been huge for nearly 20 years.
The Vic-20 has probably had more software released than the 3DS has over the last couple of years ;-) I haven't bought a title for mine since Ocarina of Time, and that was what, 2011? Oh, I did buy Out Run but that doesn't count :-)