Satoru Iwata Archive

According to this last report from 01net, the Wii U is Nintendo’s “best idea in ages”, and Nintendo are confident that they’ll get their current hardware issues fixed. As for the Wii U, despite its serious problems of development – you can be sure – will be resolved, it is probably the best idea we have […]

The 3DS price cut has caused quite a buzz among the media, with the 3DS price set to drop from $250 to $170. Iwata is concerned that this will make people wait for a Wii U price drop before buying the console. “With regard to the influence on the Wii U, what we have to […]

During an earnings briefing on Friday, Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata shared plans to introduce paid item transactions on the Wii U and the 3DS. This would allow players to purchase extra content for their games, new courses, new characters etc. Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto both expressed interest in extending the life of their games through downloadable content. […]

The Nintendo Wii isn’t exactly known for having a overflowing library of mature games. One of the major criticisms of Nintendo consoles as a whole is that their are too many ‘family friendly’ titles and not enough mature ones. At a shareholders meeting Satoru Iwata reiterated that Nintendo would carry on making games that everyone […]

The war shooter genre has been leaping in popularity recently. The success of first person shooters such as Call of Duty and Battlefield mean that the shooter industry has been getting millions of dollars worldwide. The success of these titles means that a lot more of these games are being made but not everyone is […]

In Nintendo’s latest investor relations meeting, Iwata gave us several insights into Nintendo’s future strategies for the Wii U and the 3DS, including his reassurance that the Wii U won’t suffer from the same lack of software that the Wii did. Next up, we’ve got his word on free game demos – one of the […]

Operation Rainfall is a stark reminder that software droughts on the Wii are a problem. At a a recent investor’s call, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was asked what steps the company was taking to ensure that the Wii U did not suffer from the same software problems as the Nintendo Wii. In response, Iwata reflected […]

It’s good to finally have an answer to a question many have been asking since the 3DS’s debut: will the Wii U be able to output a 3D signal to 3D TVs? Iwata’s official answer to that question is “technologically, yes, it is going to be possible, but that’s not the area we are focusing […]

The 3DS’s launch was highly anticipated, but soon fell flat as there was quite literally only a single standout game (and even that was a port of a console title). But in a shareholder meeting today, Iwata dropped a reassuring tidbit that gives us hope for a much stronger Wii U launch. He said that […]

  Speaking to Gamasutra, Satoru Iwata dropped a few hints on what we can expect the pricing of Wii U games to be like. From the sound of it, there will be a much wider range than the $50 standard tag we’re used to, with the price of a game hanging on the value of […]