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Satoru Iwata
Satoru Iwata
Japanese Businessman
Born: Dec 6, 1959
Died: Jul 11, 2015
Entertainment Game Nintendo People Think You
Related authors: Akio Toyoda Fujio Mitarai Joichi Ito Masayoshi Son Soichiro Honda Tadashi Yanai Yusaku Maezawa
Trust your passion. Believe in your dream. Satoru Iwata
Trust Passion Believe Dream Your Your Dream
Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone. Satoru Iwata
Video Games Everyone One Thing Just Just One Just One Thing Video Meant Meant To Be Games Fun Thing
Needless to say, nobody is born an avid gamer. Satoru Iwata
Gamer Needless Say Born Nobody Avid
The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall. Satoru Iwata
World Digital Value Fall Digital World Characteristic Easy Sort Content Very Where Place Which Unique
When the economy is strong, people tend to buy three things from the top of their wish list. But when things are bad, people often buy only the first thing on their list. Satoru Iwata
Buy People Strong Bad People Three First Wish Top Bad Strong People Only Tend Wish List Economy First Thing List Often The First Thing Thing Things
Nintendo's mission is to try to make people happy, to try to make people smile. Satoru Iwata
Smile Happy People Try Nintendo Mission Make
On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer. Satoru Iwata
Business Heart Gamer Mind President Corporate Computer Am Card Programmer
I believe that if we don't make moves to get people who don't play games to understand them, then the position of video games in society will never improve. Society's image of games will remain largely negative, including that stuff about playing games all the time badly damaging you or rotting your brain or whatever. Satoru Iwata
Video Games Time You People Negative Will Whatever Believe Society About Remain Never Badly Stuff Make Understand Brain Improve Get Moves Them Video Then Your Games Who Rotting Including Largely Play Image Playing Playing Games Damaging Position
Having a hardware development team in-house is a major strength. Satoru Iwata
Strength Having Development Major Team Hardware
The thing that concerns me most is that, in the digital age, if we fail to make efforts to maintain the value of our content, there is the high possibility for the value to be greatly reduced, as the history of the music industry has shown. Satoru Iwata
Music Me History Age Digital Value Digital Age Music Industry Our Possibility High Fail Maintain Most Make Concerns Industry Content Reduced Greatly Efforts The History Of Shown Thing
Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind. Satoru Iwata
Better Nintendo Something Know Make Leave Craftsmen Behind Want Company
When it came time to take a job, I had the distinction of joining the smallest company of any graduate in my class. I left to become only the fifth full-time employee of HAL, and when I told my father this, you can imagine, it was not the happiest moment in the history of my family. Satoru Iwata
Time Family History You Class Father Job Become Distinction Only Joining Take Had Smallest Hal Employee Came Left Graduate Any The History Of Happiest Fifth Full-Time Moment Company Imagine
Our thinking has always been in trying to grab the limited amount of spare time people have and always try to offer some unprecedented attraction to the consumer. Satoru Iwata
Time People Try Thinking Our Unprecedented Some Consumer Attraction Limited Always Been Time People Grab Offer Trying Spare Spare Time Amount
Sometimes you are physically tired at night, but your brain is functioning too much to go to sleep. If you can have software that helps you understand how you can shift from such a tense situation to being more relaxed, then that would help. Satoru Iwata
Tired You Sometimes Too Much Situation Too Software Relaxed Would More Physically Tense Understand How Go Shift Brain Being Then Much Your Help Helps Night Sleep
In the time period before Wii was called Wii and we still referred to it as Revolution, no one thought it was going to succeed. Satoru Iwata
Time Thought Before Revolution No-One Period Still Referred Time Period Going Succeed
It's important not only to have the right timing of when the hardware is going to be released but also when we are going to be able to introduce quality software. Satoru Iwata
Quality Important Timing Software Released Introduce Able Only Also Going Right Hardware
When we considered what to do with the graphics capability of the Wii, we put more attention and focus on the ability to create new experiences rather than the quality of the graphics. Satoru Iwata
Quality Focus Considered Ability Rather More Put Attention New Than Experiences Capability Create Graphics
Of course, no single entertainment device can enjoy eternal popularity. Satoru Iwata
Entertainment Single Enjoy Device Course Eternal Popularity
As soon as we showcased the Wii in 2006, people immediately understood. At that E3 show, I was up on the stage with other Nintendo staff playing Wii Tennis, and I could hear the excitement behind me. Satoru Iwata
Me People Stage Other Immediately Nintendo Could Tennis Excitement Soon Understood Hear Up Behind Staff Show Playing
I never think in terms of how we can compete against the other companies; rather, our primary focus is to make consumers feel the uniqueness and attractiveness of our products. Satoru Iwata
Focus Think Other Our Rather Never Consumers Primary Feel Terms Make Attractiveness How Against Products Companies Uniqueness Compete
We think there is definitely a lot of use for online connectivity in creative games. Satoru Iwata
Creative Think Definitely Online Lot Use Games
One thing about the entertainment industry - it's not something that people need to survive. Satoru Iwata
Entertainment People One Thing Entertainment Industry About Something Industry Survive To Survive Thing Need
Our approach is not to look at the successes of other people and try to repeat those successes. We don't look at the success of 'Grand Theft Auto 3' and think that maybe if we create games for older audiences will see a similar success. Satoru Iwata
Success People Try Will Older Think Other Approach Our Those See Similar Look Audiences Repeat Auto Maybe Grand Theft Create Successes Games
In the digital world, content has the tendency to lose value, especially on smart devices. We finally found solutions to the problem. We will not merely port games developed for our dedicated systems to smart devices just as they are - we will develop brand new software which perfectly matches the play style and control mechanisms of smart devices. Satoru Iwata
Problem World Smart Digital Will Value Style Lose Control Software Digital World Our Finally Systems Solutions Tendency Develop Developed Merely Perfectly New Devices Content Matches Brand Brand New Just Which Dedicated Games Mechanisms Found Port Play
If we don't take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we're not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road. Satoru Iwata
Future Down Approach Nintendo Able Take Road Looks Years Sustain Form Then Should Down The Road Platform
Even before the advent of smart devices, we employed touchscreens for our games with Nintendo DS, and we also adopted accelerometers for our Wii Remotes faster than smart devices did. Satoru Iwata
Smart Before Faster Our Nintendo Adopted Advent Devices Employed Also Than Did Games Even
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