this is from the book Shigesato Itoi's company recently published about Iwata.
it's a great read. some quotes:
Miyamoto:
Itoi:
it's a great read. some quotes:
Miyamoto:
Itoi:
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Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi open up in new book about missing late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata
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I actually find that bit comforting. Sounds like he didn't pass away with a cloud of fear over his head.
I miss Iwata. In this often toxic industry, he was just a happy good-hearted dude who got along with everyone and wanted to make everyone's day a bit brighter.
Damn, I wish I had paid more attention to Japanese classes when I was younger, would love to this.
It actually astounds me that Iwata has been gone for 4 years. It honestly feels like it happened just a few months ago.
Is this the book by Itoi and co.?
Edit: yep, and that gdc tribute still brings tears.
Edit: yep, and that gdc tribute still brings tears.
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Anyone on ERA still remember the card we made for him back on the old site?
I think I still have the source files for that...
I think I still have the source files for that...
And just a few days or weeks before he died, he publicly apologised for the E3 being disappointing and the rather vitrolic backlash.
The internet was a mistake.
I wasn't a member back then, but wanted to participate in it so badly. His loss honestly is still felt quite a bit, even if Nintendo is doing better than ever. Honestly, reading of the less important things of what he used to do, we just did not deserve that kind of man in the industry. He was way too pure for how cynical the industry and players are :(
Edit: speaking of those muppets, this was one of the very last memories he left us while he was still among us. Honestly, a better departing gift I can't think of:
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I miss Iwata. First time and probably the last time I will cry for someone I didn't know personally. I hope the books gets translated.
He fucking apologized for an E3 showing that featured genuine Jim Henson custom made muppets of company executives.
People are fucking ruthless.
And that was a month before he passed as well.
I never felt that "gut-punch" feeling before for someone I never personally knew. I'm not even a Nintendo fan, but as a programmer I had the utmost respect for him and I knew a good and irreplaceable person was gone.
Iwata was a genuine, good hearted person. It's not like you can just take any employee, make them boss and have this wonderful person in charge. You have to have that wonderful and capable person that everyone feels secure being lead by. There are few people in every thousand who can get along with everyone, there is far to few in a million that could do what Iwata was capable of. Luckily, he cared for the company's culture too and made changes we will feel for decades.
There's not many Iwata's in this world. He's definitely the minority to be the type of person he was running a billion dollar company.
This! Upon waking up at morning and opening the old site like I always do , I thought it was a prank. When I open the thread , I was hit by a flood of emotion that lasted for days. Probably first and last time for someone I never knew personally
A sad read for sure. Hopefully it's translated and officially released in the West.
I hope he's at peace, looking down and proud of how many smiles Switch is bringing to people's faces around the World.
I know it will never ever happen for reasons of decency but I really, really want an amiibo of Mr Iwata.
RIP Mr Iwata.
I hope he's at peace, looking down and proud of how many smiles Switch is bringing to people's faces around the World.
I know it will never ever happen for reasons of decency but I really, really want an amiibo of Mr Iwata.
RIP Mr Iwata.
That's because Bobby isn't half the man Iwata was.
Could you imagine him cutting his own salary and refusing to fire people when the company doesn't do well? He'd probably laugh at the idea, better to plunge hundreds of employees into financial troubles than do something that he wouldn't even feel.
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Such a shame about what happened. I look forward to reading this if it ever makes its way to English markets.
It's weird because, as these guys are saying in the book, iwata was charming to the point someone like me, who's never met him or being anywhere around him, felt sad about his passing. Usually don't care that much for celebrities dying because, what I'm gonna do, they're not my family or friends.
But iwata has this friendly aura very few CEOs have -if any, really- , and it really sucked how someone who was loved by everyone had to go so young.
But iwata has this friendly aura very few CEOs have -if any, really- , and it really sucked how someone who was loved by everyone had to go so young.
Yeah that Miyamoto quote about Mondays has a tangible emotion to it, you can tell from that sentence alone that they truly lost a father figure for the company. I really love this new Nintendo in the Switch Era, but just imagine what it would be like under Iwata, this truly could have become the next Wii.
"Iwata said that the vision behind his business was to make everyone happy: himself, his friends at work, and his customers," says Itoi. "He used the English word for 'happy' instead of the Japanese word, which charmed me. It's funny how you remember the most insignificant things, but whenever Iwata used the word 'happy,' he would show you the palms of both of his hands. That's something I don't think I'll ever forget."
He sounds like a genuinely good person. To be smart and driven yet free from ego or vanity, that is true virtue.