Satoru Iwata
Nintendo will be attending this year’s GDC, but in a slightly smaller role
Typically, it’s not so much the news that comes out of the Game Developers Conference by the insight that is important. In years past, Nintendo has had the opportunity to hold the keynote address. Just last year Satoru Iwata revealed Super Mario 3D Land and Netflix for 3DS at one one such keynote. This year Nintendo will once again be making an appearance at the show, but will be holding two...
The tale of Satoru Iwata and third party titles
Satoru Iwata is the fourth president of Nintendo, and has seen the company through it’s highest highs, and now it’s lowest lows. For Nintendo to get back on top, it is going to take something special from Iwata, and in this months semi-annual financial results briefing he discusses just how the company plans to do so. One of the key items on Iwata’s agenda is to gain support from...
Final Wii U design will be shown at E3 2012, Nintendo taking steps to not follow in the 3DS’s footsteps
With this year’s financials out for Nintendo, it has been plain to see that the company is in a bit of a lull. Iwata has said so himself stating “As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.” Popular conjecture would say that this is because of a lack of quality titles on eith...
Iwata and Nintendo think 3DS is on the right track for success, set gameplan for 2012 and beyond
Nintendo has heard your (and mine) cries and pleas for new game content on 3DS, that is if you believe what Mr. Iwata has said to investors in the company’s quarterly financial results briefing. Iwata even goes as far as to say that preparations are being made with third-party publishers to ensure that a ”˜continuous stream of Nintendo 3DS games will be released next year.’
Satoru Iwata explains Nintendo’s abrupt 3DS price reduction
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata today discussed with shareholders his decision to suddenly slash the price of 3DS. A price cut for a system so soon after it’s launch is obviously troubling news to investors, so much so that Iwata himself has taken a pay cut. When asked why Nintendo decided to drop the price of the 3DS system so soon after launch, Iwata stated, “For us to maximize the effect...
Satoru Iwata has been listening, is not pleased with lack of games on Wii
It?s funny how much Nintendo has changed in the last decade. For the first time in its history, Nintendo was no longer the market leader as the Sony Playstation had broken onto the scene and easily ran away with the lion?s share of the console market. The Playstation 2 was beginning to pick up where its predecessor left off, and Nintendo was itself readying its own answer in the Gamecube.
Wii U has been in development since 2007
In an interview with Gamasutra, Satoru  Iwata discusses how development for the Nintendo Wii U started mere months after Wii released. By 2007 there where already working prototypes of a dual screened console experience, but not exactly the way we know Wii U today. “Considering how expensive screens were then, it did not make sense to have this big-sized LCD. We would not have been able to ...
Nintendo President Iwata gives GDC keynote today – live stream link now available
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata will give a keynote speech titled “Video Games Turn 25” today at the 2011 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The speech is scheduled for noon Eastern time, 9am Pacific. You can watch it here live and comment with all of your pals here at Infendo at the bottom of this post. The 3DS will surely be a big topic of discussion, as will The Legend of ...
Juicy tidbits from Iwata Asks: Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo has posted the transcription of another session of “Iwata Asks”, the ongoing roundtable discussions featuring Shigeru Miyamoto, Shigesato Itoi, and Satoru Iwata. You can read through the whole interview here, but we’ve also collected a few juicy excerpts from the discussion here for your ravenous consumption.
Nintendo 3DS won’t be sold at a loss, says CEO Iwata; Price speculation ensues
In a recent interview with GamesBeat, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata mentioned that while he couldn’t divulge pricing at this time, the Nintendo 3DS would not be sold at a loss to Nintendo. From the interview: SI: I have to refrain from talking specifically about the price point. What I can confirm is that, in terms of the production costs, it will cost more than the costs for the Nintendo DS tod...
Iwata is Optimistic About 3D Console Gaming
Now that we’ve all seen Nintendo’s foray into the 3D realm with the 3DS, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Iwata is also considering 3D implementation with their consoles as well. In fact, they believe its the future. “In the future, 3D will become the mainstream of gaming…If you display a 3D image, the image quality becomes extremely bad, so we’d probably do i...
Iwata Stays Positive as 3DS Reveal Inches Closer
Yahoo News posted an article today detailing Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata’s stance on current and future Wii sales as well as a few thoughts on the upcoming 3DS. Satoru states that while Wii sales are below previous numbers that they are still strong figures given the age of the console. While no new technical details were revealed about the 3DS, Iwata commented on Nintendo’s goals to con...