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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
Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start. Satoru Iwata
Technology Benefits Faster Our Machines Nintendo More Advanced Advanced Technology Make Quieter Using Start Applying
If the first entrant always wins the market, the Dreamcast must have won the race against the PS2, for example. There are many precedents like that in the past. The first to market is not necessarily the winner in the race. Satoru Iwata
Example Winner First Past Market Must Wins Like For Example Always Won In The Past Against Race Many Necessarily
For me, I actually found that it would have been more frightening to take the conventional path. Satoru Iwata
Me Path Would More Take Been Frightening Conventional Found Actually
What Nintendo will do is simply try to do our best, believing that our strategy is right. Satoru Iwata
Best Try Will Strategy Our Nintendo Simply Believing Right
We really cannot forget about the existence of the avid game fans - the fans of Nintendo games. Satoru Iwata
Game Fans Nintendo About Existence Forget Cannot Really Avid Games
First of all, I've never once been embarrassed that children have supported Nintendo. I'm proud of it. That's because children judge products based on instinct. Satoru Iwata
Judge First Once Nintendo Embarrassed Never Supported Instinct First Of All Because Proud Been Children Products Based
In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it then. So I went to classes on engineering and early computer science. Satoru Iwata
Technology Science Computer Science Engineering Programming Entered Would Classes Computer Study Nobody Institute Loved Then Teaching Tokyo Early
We've been thinking very carefully about how can we possibly communicate the real value and the attraction of Nintendo 3DS. The conclusion was that there is no other way than to let as many people as possible to actually see it. Satoru Iwata
People Communicate Value Thinking Carefully Other Way Nintendo Possible Possibly See About Attraction Conclusion How Real Been Very Than Real Value Many Actually
Typical tech-driven companies or hardware-driven companies always lay out the so-called roadmaps when it comes to making the new hardware. So, in other words, availability of certain technologies dictates when the company is intending to make the new hardware. Satoru Iwata
Words Other Typical Out Lay New Make Always Making Dictates Intending So-Called In Other Words Availability Certain Companies Company Hardware Technologies
Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box. Satoru Iwata
Game Think Machine Console Able Open Soon Box Personally Video Video Game Should Use Users Functions
Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it's me! Satoru Iwata
Me Game Man Experience Remember Appreciates Once Risk More Only Point Know Look Making Am Misunderstood Improving Being Anyone Being Misunderstood Means Games Who Graphics Baseball Baseball Game Baseball Players Players Programmed
The DS was launched back in 2004, and sales of that machine hit a record in 2009 in the United States. That is totally different from the conventional sales pattern, in which game gear sales peak in the third year and take a downturn thereafter. Satoru Iwata
Game Year Back States Machine Gear Record Totally Take Sales Hit Different Conventional Which Pattern Thereafter United United States Downturn Peak Third
What I believe is that Nintendo is a very unique company because it does its business by designing and introducing people to hardware and software - by integrating them, we can be unique. Satoru Iwata
Business People Believe Software Nintendo Introducing Because Does Integrating Very Them Unique Company Hardware Designing
Here's a hypothesis I seriously believe: If there hadn't been a 'Pokemon' game, maybe the market for handheld game devices would have gone extinct. Satoru Iwata
Game Seriously Gone Believe Market Would Hypothesis Devices Been Maybe Here Extinct
People will buy hardware just to buy a single game if the game is really compelling. Satoru Iwata
Buy Game People Will Single Just Really Compelling Hardware
I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance. Satoru Iwata
Success Employees Own Strictly Our Nintendo Tell Never Performance Term Always Use Describe
The brand new user interfaces that Nintendo invented often faced skeptical views before a hardware launch but wound up becoming de facto industry standards. Satoru Iwata
Before Nintendo Launch Wound Faced Invented Facto New Industry Becoming Up Brand Brand New Often Skeptical Views Standards User Hardware
Nintendo's approach to our work is to greatly increase the population of gamers. Satoru Iwata
Work Gamers Increase Approach Our Nintendo Greatly Population
What I wanted to have happen was that people who didn't know that Game Boy Advance and GBA are the same thing would remember Wii right away because it doesn't need to be abbreviated. Satoru Iwata
Game People Remember Same Thing Would Advance Know Because Boy Same Wanted Happen Who Away Right Thing Right Away Need
I read blogs quite a bit. Satoru Iwata
Bit Read Blogs Quite Quite A Bit
Nintendo has been a very unique company because it's not just hardware but also one of the major software publishers. Because it is in a unique position, it's given us a unique advantage. Satoru Iwata
Software Nintendo Has-Been Given Advantage Major Also Because Been Very Just Us Unique Company Publishers Hardware Position
I'm not interested in offering software for free of charge. That's because I myself am one of the game developers who, in the future, wants to make efforts so the value of the software will be appreciated by the consumers. Satoru Iwata
Future Myself Game Will Value Free Software Charge Consumers Developers Make Because Am Offering Efforts Wants Not Interested Interested Who Appreciated
In general, no engineer hates higher performance. Satoru Iwata
Engineer Hates General Higher Performance
There are many different regions around the world, and each region has its own cultural acceptance and legal restrictions as well as different age ratings. There are always things that we're required to do in each different region, which may go counter to the idea that players around the world want the freedom to play whatever they want. Satoru Iwata
Freedom Legal Age Acceptance World Whatever Own Restrictions Ratings Counter Idea Well Around Always Go Cultural May Different Want Which Region Regions Required Many Each Play Things Players
We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase even if they are not a necessity. If we stop doing that, no matter how successful Nintendo is at the moment, things will start going wrong in no time. Satoru Iwata
Time People Matter Will Live Thinking Our Nintendo Would Purchase Something Something People No Time Wrong Make Without How Priority Doing Going Stop Successful Producing Products Moment Even Keep Things Start Necessity Need
The heart of the matter is that everybody starts video games as a beginner. Then, after going through a lot of experiences and becoming more and more fond of video games, they become the experts. Satoru Iwata
Video Games Heart Matter Become Starts Everybody Fond More More And More Through Becoming Lot Beginner Going Experiences After Experts Video Then Games
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