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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It's designed like a TV remote because that's familiar to everyone including those who are intimidated by a two-handed controller, ... Its intuitive form allows both experienced and new gamers to stand on the same starting line.
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It's designed like a TV remote because that's familiar to everyone, including those who are intimidated by a two-handed controller. Its intuitive form allows both experienced and new gamers to stand on the same starting line.
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We hope to make it a simultaneous worldwide release as much as it's possible.
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We believe we know what makes a good game better than anyone else.
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We want to help you create the next one.
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This is an extremely exciting innovation -- one that will thrill current players and entice new ones.
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I was a developer for many years before my current role, but I've never been a very good gamer. I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.
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Recently I have gained a little bit of interest in getting more involved in game development again.
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Our mission is to revive the gaming industry by increasing our user base, ... If we can't do that, we might as well stand back and watch the market die off.
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The feeling is so natural and real, as soon as players use the controller, their minds will spin with the possibilities of how this will change gaming as we know it today. This is an extremely exciting innovation --one that will thrill current players and entice new ones.
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I really don't think that there's going to be a lot of acceptance by current customers of the $60 price tag.
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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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For the controller to be placed on the table at all, we had to make it compact - I believe that this will be possible for this controller. Also, just like a TV remote control, it can be manipulated with one hand.
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I can only say that it's coming out during 2006, but it will be after the current fiscal year.