• Iwata Worked on Pokémon GO From His Hospital Room
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[url]http://nintendonews.com/news/mobile/iwata-pokemon-go-hospital-bed/[/url] [QUOTE]Iwata made his last public appearance in late June at a Nintendo shareholders meeting, just a few short weeks before he passed. “I still have unfinished business,” he said,according to Nikkei Asian Review. In his hospital room, Iwata exchanged ideas with Tsunekazu Ishihara, his close friend and the president of The Pokémon Company. He exchanged those ideas using his favorite PC. “Children can enjoy ‘Pokémon GO’ without spending too much money. This is probably what Iwata-san aimed for,” said one game company executive who was close to Iwata.[/QUOTE]
What a remarkable man. Truly the world is worsened with the loss of someone so dedicated and passionate about his art.
That was very kind of him.
Man, I miss the guy more every day. :(
Funny, I thought Iwata didn't want Nintendo to go mobile
Iwata was so cool, fuck still can't believe he's gone.
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;50882355]Funny, I thought Iwata didn't want Nintendo to go mobile[/QUOTE] He didn't, but he supported any final decision to the hilt, cause he was the broest of c e bros
Unless Miyamoto or someone like him steps up, Nintendo will never have ankther CEO as great as Iwata. He wasn't just a businessman, he truly loved video games. Even if you may not agree with all of his business decisions, he's the perfect example of what a video game company CEO should really be like.
It still warmed my heart to see people in the game industry and gamers in general last year unite in appreciating and remember Iwata and his contribution to the video game industry and video games themselves. He truly was one of the best, and it was a shame he died early. :(
Must be why there's so many features lacking then.
Damn this man truly should be an inspiration to all
Iwata was so dedicated and had some amazing ideas. It's a shame he's gone.. Can we exchange him for the gimp who did Other M? Please?
The man is a legend, without him we would not have had Super Smash Melee or Earthbound. Both games were riddled with bugs and it would not have made it to release but he personally spent weeks reviewing the game code and debugged it himself, Iwata was a very good programmer besides being a awesome CEO.
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;50882663]Unless Miyamoto or someone like him steps up, Nintendo will never have ankther CEO as great as Iwata. He wasn't just a businessman, he truly loved video games. Even if you may not agree with all of his business decisions, he's the perfect example of what a video game company CEO should really be like.[/QUOTE] Iwata was the cause of Nintendo slowly becoming irrelevant though, their consoles aren't selling as well as they used to and their primary IP's being exclusive to one platform will over time make people disinterested He was really slow but still very kind about his art which is great, he just wasn't up to speed with what was happening around the tech world. The advantage with Iwata unfortunately gone is that Nintendo can start looking at other markets to put their IP's on to increase their relevance in the gaming world. Soon we may have a mobile version of Mario Kart, who knows
Iwata be like him one day.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;50883579]The man is a legend, without him we would not have had Super Smash Melee or Earthbound. Both games were riddled with bugs and it would not have made it to release but he personally spent weeks reviewing the game code and debugged it himself, Iwata was a very good programmer besides being a awesome CEO.[/QUOTE] Iwata was a goddamn [i]prodigy.[/i] He knew business, he knew game design, and he even knew the esoteric programming underneath it all. Let's take it from the TVTropes [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/GeniusProgramming]Genius Programming[/url] page: [quote]Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce you to the late, great Satoru Iwata, once Nintendo's global president and the acting president of HAL Labs earlier still. When he was younger, he [url=http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/creators/4/0]disassembled the programs for his home computer by writing down the memory dumps by hand.[/url] Mind you, this was before printers. Among his achievements as a game programmer, he... ... ported the battle code of Pokémon Stadium to the Nintendo 64 [url=http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/iwata/iwata_asks_-_pokmon_heartgold_version__soulsilver_version_16288_16289.html]despite not having any access to crucial documents. And he did it all in a week.[/url] ... programmed EarthBound in its entirety, also with remarkable speed. At the time, the project was very close to being jettisoned due to the unmanageability of the original coding. The coding he used is a huge scripting language, so complex that, theoretically, [url=http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-side/]the text system alone could be used to write an emulator, if altered somewhat.[/url] ... personally compressed Pokémon Gold and Silver, which filled the cartridge despite still being half-finished. That's the reason the setting for Pokémon Red and Blue was included (with only two locations removed) in the games—there was that much space left after he was done. ... debugged Super Smash Bros. Melee all by his lonesome. It only took him two weeks—which was all the time he had to get it out. And last but not least, as revealed after his unfortunate passing, [url=http://www.siliconera.com/2015/12/30/how-satoru-iwatas-zealous-work-helped-in-the-unlikely-localization-of-pokmon/]Iwata was basically responsible for Pokémon being localized.[/url] Game Freak wanted to move over to the next generation in the series, but Iwata insisted on doing the development work for the localization with just Teruki Murukawa assisting him. And Iwata was [i]the company president of HAL Laboratory at the time.[/i] Without Iwata, Pokémon would not be a global phenomenon. Rest in peace, you wonderful man.[/quote] He didn't deserve that illness; to die with his last public statement an apology for a subpar E3 conference (2015), while so-called "fans" the world over called for his resignation. I'm still angry at how sour a note his life ended on. Nintendo lost a major part of their DNA that day.
God damn it now I'm crying again.
[QUOTE=T-Sonar.0;50883971]God damn it now I'm crying again.[/QUOTE] :C It's alright, he's now in the big Mushroom Clouds in the sky in special world, hanging around with his old pals from Nintendo and HAL. At-least, that's how I see it.
What a dedicated man. I hope Nintendo won't lose its way (anymore than they already have). [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/XRNohfd.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/IMG] :plsunderstand: [IMG]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;50882663]Unless Miyamoto or someone like him steps up, Nintendo will never have ankther CEO as great as Iwata. He wasn't just a businessman, he truly loved video games. Even if you may not agree with all of his business decisions, he's the perfect example of what a video game company CEO should really be like.[/QUOTE] miyamoto is doing nothing but hurting the company at this point, same with all the old leaders.
[QUOTE=codemaster85;50884744]miyamoto is doing nothing but hurting the company at this point, same with all the old leaders.[/QUOTE] Seconded, i hate to say it but i firmly believe that Nintendo will stagnate and die unless we can get some new blood into the Old Guard.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;50883616]Iwata was the cause of Nintendo slowly becoming irrelevant though, their consoles aren't selling as well as they used to and their primary IP's being exclusive to one platform will over time make people disinterested He was really slow but still very kind about his art which is great, he just wasn't up to speed with what was happening around the tech world. The advantage with Iwata unfortunately gone is that Nintendo can start looking at other markets to put their IP's on to increase their relevance in the gaming world. Soon we may have a mobile version of Mario Kart, who knows[/QUOTE] Yeah, like I said, he didn't make the best business decisions, but as a representative, he was the best. If we had someone like Iwata but a bit better at making business decisions, we'd be golden.
What a spectacular human being. RIP Iwata-San, you'll be dearly missed
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