Satoru Iwata Archives

Will the bluster and thought leadership of the game industry go quiet? | The DeanBeat

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 24, 2025
6 min

I’m a fan of transparency. Because, as the big newspaper says, “Democracy dies in darkness.” There’s an analogy here for the game business where...

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Reggie Fils-Aimé was president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America.

The DeanBeat: Wandering the game industry with Reggie Fils-Aimé

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 13, 2022
15 min

Years ago, I used to speak with Reggie Fils-Aimé on a regular basis. He obliterated me once while playing Wii Sports Tennis during a...

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Satoru Iwata, who died in 2015 at the age of 55.

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata proved it was better to be loved than feared

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 13, 2021
2 min

Even before his death in 2015 at the age of 55, gamers were mythologizing former Nintendo chief executive officer Satoru Iwata. He was the...

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The DeanBeat: Who would win a game battle between Apple and Nintendo?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 13, 2019
4 min

Years ago, way back in 2011, Apple’s Steve Jobs held a press conference during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. As Jobs was...

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4 min

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata gets posthumous lifetime achievement award from gaming peers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2016
2 min

Former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata received a posthumous lifetime achievement award tonight at gaming’s equivalent of the Oscars. The Academy of Interactive Arts &...

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How Satoru Iwata’s dedication brought Pokémon to the West

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 31, 2015
2 min

Without Satoru Iwata, the Pokémon phenomenon might never have left Japan. The former Nintendo president, who sadly passed away earlier this year, played a huge part in bringing the...