"Before he became Nintendo's global president in 2002, Iwata was one of the key figures behind Nintendo's shift from competing with the high-resolution graphics of the Xbox and PlayStation brands and focusing on "fun to play" gaming – an approach that hit paydirt with the Wii, which has sold just under 100 million units and the DS, which sold more than 150 million.
In 2007, on the back of these successes, the US business magazine Barron's named Iwata as one of the world's top CEOs, but with a long gap between the Wii and the Wii U, Nintendo has struggled in the past 12 months. We sat down with Iwata to discuss just how his company intends to turn the page.", writes The Independent.
At the heart of Iwata’s tenure at Nintendo was a philosophy of listening.
In 2015, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata sadly passed away. Dear friend and EarthBound creator Shigesato Itoi compiled his musings as a tribute.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa recently sat down with Nikkei to discuss his approach to leading the company through the current Switch era, as well as what influences past presidents like Satoru Iwata and Hiroshi Yamauchi had on him.
nothing wrong with him per say but he just feels kinda lifeless compared to Iwata and lacks the tough guy almost Yakuza vibe Yamauchi gave off
This guy is a penny pincher and has no love of gaming. It is obvious in the half assed ports he is pushing. Iwata we miss you.
Would've been terrible if Nintendo's last console was a non-HD console lol.
It was innovative at the time bringing in motion gaming but i never really liked motion gaming, i just like the traditional controller and that's why i might check out the Wii U since it will be mixing both a traditional controller, motion gaming, and a touch screen which should make gaming a little bit more interesting for me.
why would he think that in the first place.
i mean were they not confident in their product back then or something.
anyway i hope Nintendo keeps making console so it can compete with the other two.
The Wii is a cheap , plasticky thing with boring old full sized discs compared to the Gamecube. The Gamecube proprietary discs were the coolest things in gaming - it's just a shame that they could hold less data. The GC just seemed to have much better build quality in console and controller. Whoever said that having a console that you can barely see was a great thing anyway?
Nintendo basically saved themselves by releasing a Gamecube mixed with a Dreamcast (peripheral based games) mixed with a NES (relatively basic graphics).
It is essentially a retro rather than a revolutionary device.