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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The next generation is a place where the best idea, not the biggest budget will win,
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We believe we know what makes a good game better than anyone else.
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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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We thought it was the requirement of moving right and left fingers separately and nimbly that was creating a psychological barrier, ... To expand the gaming population, it was needed for us to design a pad so that any family member would see it on the living room table, think that this was something relevant to them and pick it up.
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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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We hope to make it a simultaneous worldwide release as much as it's possible.
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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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If all we were to ever do is just continue to make sequels and not do anything new or different, people would view us as a very conservative company and a company that is unwilling to really take new initiatives and embark on new adventures. That's not the type of person I am and not the kind of company I want Nintendo to be.
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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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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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The key here is not what you are playing but how you will be playing. Revolution will also create entirely new genres to expand the definition of video games.