I think what hurts my heart the most about Iwata passing away is that he was legit one of the last people in the industry who believed that video games should just be fun, and that everyone should be able to play and enjoy them.
None of this casual vs. hardcore garbage or whatever it is having to “prove” yourself to be a “real gamer”. He really believed that video games were meant for everyone who wanted to play.
And it hurts my heart to know that there’s one less person in the industry that believes in that.
Now that Satoru has died maybe Nintendo can finally catch up with other gaming companies when it comes to their representation of women which, frankly, is really poor.
I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.
Wow… I only played Nintendo games to have FUN. Not look at their “poor” representation of females. Have you even played Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors, or Wind Waker where you take control of female characters to kick ass? I’m sorry, but you make feminist and the movement look really pathetic right now.
FUCK OFF
FUCK OFF
YOU FEMINAZI SHITS WON’T BRING DOWN HIS MEMORY JUST FOR YOU SHITTY HATE MOVEMENT
BACK THE FUCK OFF RIGHT NOW
I found the angry nerd.
i found the feminist that never ever played a nintendo game
because nintendo is really good at including women and diversity
how can you call your movement a movement of peace when you spit on someone’s death and say “i’m glad he’s gone”
he did so much, more than you’ll ever do in your life
so shut up
Many of people a grieving the death of someone who took a very big place in their lives. The death of such person should not be an opportunity for you to bring in another trouble, which frankly, makes no sense in this situation because Nintendo made a lot of kick ass females.
I can start with Samus. There’s not much to say about it, it speaks for itself, Samus is at the top of her own whole Metroid franchise There are three female champions in Pokemon; Cynthia, Iris and Diantha. All highly respected in the Pokemon world. In smash games, you have Lucina from Fire Emblem, which is kick ass on her own for trying to change the fate for an entire team. From Smash again but also from her own franchise, you have Zelda.
Now not only did your point not really work in the first place, you’re using the death of someone really important to make it pass. When someone clearly upset call you out on it, you simply call them an ‘’angry nerd’’. Saying you’re glad he’s gone. That’s pretty heartless from you, and instead, you should maybe be apologizing.
Nintendo took a big place in a lot of people’s heart, helped them through a lot and the death of Satoru destroyed a lot of them, it’s a sad day in our lives, so instead of making it a feminist issue, try to have a little compassion.
“Nintendo can finally catch up with other gaming companies when it comes to their representation of women“
You were saying… ?
and that’s not even the half of the quarter of nintendo’s women characters
so please shut up
They can’t even fit in only one picture
I’m a feminist and a gamer and this is just infuriating. This is not the time to be like, “Now fix the company.” It’s not like he left the office, this man died. It’s not like we lost some tyrannical, oppressive madman, he ran a company whose goal was to entertain us.
Hell, even Sony had the decency to tweet their condolences and they’re competing with Nintendo. Even they can take time out from competing with this company to voice how much influence this man had on the industry and show them some love.
He saved HAL Laboratories from going down under and was a key to Kirby’s creation as a series.
He reprogrammed the entire Mother 2 / Earthbound game in less than six months. He’s the reason it exists.
The last game he engineered was Super Smash Bros. Melee.. out of necessity. He re-coded that as well so it would meet its November 2001 release.
He cut his salary in half to keep Nintendo afloat rather than cut positions at the bottom.
He gave the speech titled “Heart of a Gamer” in 2005, a key time before the Wii’s release, which shocked the world in the following generation.
Designer first, executive second. One of the few, if not, the first and only president of a major gaming company who was a designer first and foremost.
He was the fourth President of Nintendo and the first not by blood relation to get the honors due to his previous years of leadership.
Iwata believed in open communication with the fans and the press. He believed in sharing his and other developers’ passion for video game design. Thus, he created a series called, “Iwata Asks.”
Overall, as president, he has helped carry Nintendo into the new millennium. He brought in the most memorable public face of gaming known as Reginald Fils-Aime, he orchestrated one of Nintendo’s finest, most shocking years in popular culture since the NES with the Wii, and shouldered the burden and took full responsibility of both the GameCube and the Wii U financially. A man with this much business savvy, personality, passion, and unselfishness… will surely, surely be missed in the gaming realm.
“Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we have different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us has the heart of a gamer.” - Satoru Iwata, Heart of a Gamer
Sadly Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has passed away. Let us remember him for the great work he did as both a game developer and as a president who led Nintendo through some difficult times and even opted to halve his own salary instead of laying off employees. He will be missed by many and his contributions to gaming will not be forgotten.
Games and Nintendo Directs aside, Iwata cutting his own salary when the Wii U was struggling so that nobody else would have to is probably the most genuine thing that the president of a major corporation has ever done. You could really tell that he cared about Nintendo which is such a rare thing to see in corporations in general, let alone video game developers. I am really sad to see him go.
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