What Nintendo’s late president Satoru Iwata told me, a long time ago
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Words and some audio from an old interview tape

"The tape is crackly, and the live translation is not the best. Mr. Iwata, then two years into his tenure as Nintendo’s president, listens to my questions in English, answers in Japanese and then waits as his comments are translated for me.

The topic is the Nintendo DS, a then-upcoming Nintendo handheld that proved one of gaming’s biggest successes but at the time seemed like a potentially disastrous idea. Could it even be the end of Nintendo?"

  • mindbleachEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Someone at school told me about it and I had to explain, I wasn’t doubting them, I was doubting their source. The rumor seemed completely made-up. There was no reason for a gaming company to do that.

    But Nintendo is a toy company. They saw the PSP coming, figured they couldn’t compete on quality, and did some weird bullshit that would only ever be possible on their hardware.

    Their R&D staff are top-notch. Their legal department can eat a dick.