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His name is Satoru Iwata. Unfortunately, Mr. Iwata passed away back in 2015, but his legacy lives on.
FP EDIT: Woah front page! What an awesome way to start my week. Ahh I guess you guys can send me some life advise, just turned 20 a few weeks ago and I’m trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. Would appreciate any insight, anyways thank you all! :)
IcyLucario
Man, it really sucks he didn't get to see the success of the Switch. He was one hellva guy.
SignInBlood
Satori mountain in BOTW is supposedly named after him. Good guy.
Mercenarity
It may have bombed but Mario Maker is one of my all-time favorite video games.
TheOvy
Iwata's base salary was about $770k, plus rewards for doing well, adding up to $2.1 million in 2010. He got very low pay for a CEO. Props.
OnceUponARainyDay
If I recall my lore correctly, it’s said that Satori Mountain - and the Lord of the Mountain - from BOTW are in tribute to him.
thatguyinthecomments
My life advice: don’t let what you do for a living define who you are.
PizzaStation
The Wii U is a great console. Just not marketed well, and not enough 3rd party support. The 1st party titles are fucking fantastic, though
ZKrock
This. A billion times, this.
Spinosaur
I love my WiiU, Mr. Iwata! Thanks for all the fun
randomresearch
@thatitaliano life advice: if you're taking the college route, choose something kinda general. Can always specialize in grad school
TrapsAreIllegal
I thought the Wii U was pretty good and there's no way we'd have the switch without it.
Onic
Even at deaths door Iwata had time to do a puppet show for E3.
CrashX23
Hey Activision. ^^^^
Groose
Hey crytech*
ikindacarebutimostlydont
The Wii U could have been good, but...it wasn't. Seems like the Switch is what they wanted the Wii U to be.
esillMoonFlyer
Really liked the Wii U. Totally bummed.
VorpalDaiquiri
I've wondered if the "failure" of the Wii U, and the stress off Japan's extreme sense of honor and stuff, is what ultimately killed him
TinyGreenMenNinjaClan
"Wii U Wii U Wii U"- ambulance on its way to pick him up.
sleepydude231
fluhatinrapper
That is genuinely one of the funniest things I have ever read. You're horrible, but I still love it. Life is all a joke anyway.
fpierce1997
I shouldn't be laughing at this, but I am.
Jakersbakers
Straight savage
DoublevBomb
I think he would actually find that funny.
rugmiem
IamMeWasTaken
Without Iwata there would be no Smash Bros. he helped Sakurai program the prototype to show to the Nintedo higher-ups.
PapaTimDankopus
It's a repost but damn if it doesn't make a point as to how shitty every other company is. Hell I'd be suprised if nintendo's
PapaTimDankopus
the only one that pays their fucking TAXES.
EllisTomago
We love our Wii U
CuteLukePatoot
A copy of Golf for NES is in every Switch. It can only be opened on a brand new Switch, never connected online, and on the anniversary (1/)
CuteLukePatoot
of Iwata's death by doing his 'to you' motion he did in Nintendo Direct videos. The thing is, this game isn't meant to be opened ... (2/)
CuteLukePatoot
Kind of a good luck charm / blessing. In Japan they have this tradition of paper charms that are meant to stay closed, like this game. 3/3
RealLifeImaginaryGuy
I'm not sure if i'm stupid for thinking this is real, or if it actually IS real! Source?
CuteLukePatoot
It's legitimate. http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-41336424/hidden-golf-game-found-on-nintendo-switch
Puffmax
The Wii U was bad, but you know what wasn't? The Wii U pro controller
thing lasted 80hrs on a single charge.
lnsertgenericusernamehere
This. I'm amazed how long it lasts. It's my second favorite controller
Puffmax
Good news is there's an adapter that lets you use it on PC as well.
Groose
The Wii U was not bad,it simply never got to reach its full potential. Ask many owners and they will say they love theirs
Puffmax
I have a Wii U and besides playing a handful of games it was mostly virtual wares. It was a poorly planned step between the Wii and Switch.
Illuminado
Do yourselves a favor and click on this. https://youtu.be/k4cJh2YgrKE
SloppySlommyEggs
Want to watch this later.
12man21
Dot
skullpoopl
Commenting for later. Thanks!
HodorTactical
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DoublevBomb
This one's pretty good too: https://youtu.be/VUHi-vlACJI
fluhatinrapper
I just really like the game historian. Borderline network TV professional. Great editing, dialogue and content!
IThurtswhenIP6
He made up for it on the 33mil in stock options though
MidiArbite
But said stock only has value when he doesn't fuck up.
IThurtswhenIP6
Depends on agreement when they hire. Even if he fucks up they usually get a golden parachute
ddkong86
If he fucks up the stock loses value.
IAmTheMadLord
Technically a golden parachute would kill you faster than not having one
IThurtswhenIP6
Doubt that
IAmTheMadLord
Would *you* want to be skydiving with a solid gold parachute? It's terminal velocity would be a lot more than yours.
theyar
Yeah CEO salary doesn't mean a lot. A lot of CEOs drop their salary to $1 when it looks good. They make millions in stock.
IThurtswhenIP6
Yea they try to come off so noble. Always a story behind a story. Ask Joel Olsteen.. He doesn't get a check either. Ha
BrookeFromBrookfield
A true man of integrity. RIP Mr. Iwata.
dauntlessds
Not to take away from what he did, but the Japanese typically do this when they fail. I forget what it is called but it is great shame.
AmachiHitsugi
I wouldn't say typical. But you hear about it every time it happens. There's a lot (maybe majority) of shit bosses here.
dauntlessds
Yeah, you're right. I only know from the google searches the first time this was posted, bad wording on my part, sorry.
WhatD0thLife
The Western world could afford to have some self-respect or shame every now and then at least.
dauntlessds
I whole-heartidly fucking agree. shit redic yo.
The701
Nope, can't do that. Self-respect and shame do not provide value for the shareholders or the executive board.
sumowoman
Having integrity and admitting we might sometimes be wrong? Had we done that, we would never had conquered and enslaved the world.
Ryebread91
I don't understand really why it failed. Was it not enough individual content or too different from the wii instead of just better?
tesseract4d2
My reasons were: no console specific main line LoZ game, and it just.... never made the wii seem irrelevant.
tesseract4d2
they also didn't market it's back compatibility well. I usually keep up on things, but didn't realize until just now that it ran wii games
Ryebread91
Didn't know that either.
Ryebread91
Does it still accept wii remotes and play like the wii?
AlmostScientist
in America if something bombs, we send it to Guantanamo
Bassaker
*In america if someone is accused of bombing he and everybody in the vaguely vicinity is sent to Gitmo.
guardianofthegalaxy
Perfect
LeadPrick
savage
EasyAsAB
00355092
Unless it's Japan, then we bomb it ourselves.
thefeelsarestrongwiththisone
3YearsaLurker
PapaBearclaw
Great example of leadership. However, my kid and I play the Wii U all the time. I still don't get the hate toward it.
Cheomesh
I'd honestly forgotten about the thing.
theyar
There was no market for it. People bought the Wii because it was novel, and they weren't the kind of people to buy the next thing.
KnightNeo
Good Console, just it was rushed to market, had few launch titles, and designing for it was apparently hard to learn/work with starting out.
SexuallyAttractedtoGoofy
I blame the advertising
BigUncleHeavy
Not hate really, just indifference.
terithian
I figure it's just people oversimplifying. They hear it's a commercial failure, so they just assume it and all its games must suck.
AlmightyDylon
Really bad marketing. They should never have called it a Wii product.
AwkwardCrying
This. A lot of people I've talked to when working always thought it was an add on to the Wii.
VorpalDaiquiri
It's not hate so much as ignorance. I've had to explain what it even is, when it was brought up during a conversation about the Switch!
bghvgjdh
It's a great console, but wasn't marketed well and thus didn't sell exceptionally well, so considered a failure from a business angle
shimmernshine
Binary thinking. If it's not a massive success then it must be a failure. TBH the DSi was a bigger failure by the numbers.
eetsumkaus
well yes, if you put massive esources towards developing sconsoles, if it isn't a success, then it IS a failure business-wise
shimmernshine
Maybe to the investors and stockholders, which is why Nintendo has been buying back shares. They like to experiment, and they can afford to.
eetsumkaus
The opportunity cost is getting started on the next gen console sooner. There's better ways to experiment than gearing the company one way
ThrowMamaFromTheTrain
Like a $200m movie making $205m dollars. I mean it technically made money, but was a failure.
eetsumkaus
yeah, it's the opportunity cost of putting that $200m towards something that could make $40m for example
Muttons1337
I think it came to soon and people were expecting something other than a Wii 2.0, but that's just my own opinion.
Cheomesh
Nintendo seems stuck in 2005...
theyar
No that's pretty much it. Wii was huge success, and they assumed they could just make a "Wii 360" with better specs and everyone would 1/?
theyar
rush to buy the next generation. But the people who bought the Wii aren't the kind of people the run out and buy the next generation. 2/?
theyar
In fact, many of them had grown kinda disappointed with their Wiis and either went back to hardcore Xbox/PS gaming, or back to true 3/?
theyar
casual gaming on their iPhones. The WiiU couldn't decide if it was trying to provide an innovative hardcore experience with the screen, 4/?
Tr1gg3rH4ppy
TheFastpaws
????
dacow36793
kaitoofrose
What is Isabelle holding?
dlozilgaii
Medicine you can buy from Nook's :'( https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/12/121643/2370166-tumblr_mc1mcvnrpa1ril62uo1_400.jpg
kaitoofrose
Isabelle, I don't think Bee-sting medicine will help. Also, if you saw it, I made an error.
iLikeTurtlesAndPizza
AngelxOfxSin
MetroidPrimeHesTheBest
Fuuuuuckkk, those feels!
ClubPenguinFreeMembership
This fucked me up for the second time
ninjamonster
Mobileuserwholikestoberandom
Wait, he’s dead?!
SkillCheckStudios
Been dead, bruh. Just over a year now, I think.
Keru
BatmanNutPunch
Dude... :’(
KoRplussomeletters
DukeDarkwood
This is astounding. How have I never seen it before? It's a perfect tribute.
Illuminado
I mean, he has the extra life mushroom right there. Mario, you could have prevented this!
RockmanModelZ
And Link should have brought a fairy...
Zaranthan
There's no coming back from cutscene death.
PropainAndPropainAccesories
Go to your room mister man because you're grounded!
DarkZer0
Ah yes Final Fantasy 5, great game
DurendaI
Right in the feels.
GeneticTechnician
Of all the cutscenes you could have chosen from you just had to go and pick the one I'm still not over
illegalmangos
That's the ultra shroom
NougatFromOrbit
1-UP's and Ultra Shrooms look exactly the same, but in this case I think it's safe to assume it's a 1-UP
Merlinspants77
They all have 1ups
ThatGirlWithTheStuff
Judging by how far away from them he is, it looks like he was TRYING to prevent it. He just got there too late. -->
ThatGirlWithTheStuff
All of them are trying to heal him, but they can't. Maxim tomato, heart container, etc.
Mythrion
Gotta have those items before you die.
Lilshadow48
Pikachu has a Max Revive.
ThatGirlWithTheStuff
Which only works on Pokemon.
UnapolageticallyMe
Isabell has the medicine you use for bee stings... Good effort, but no dice.
AnalBaguette
It's a shame, I feel like the Wii U failure affected his health tremendously and ultimately cost him a chance at recovering.
fbutt09
He brought shame to himself and his family. That's a very admirable trait. A trait that's not prevalent in the western board rooms.
Nigbac
No, it is absolutely not. It is idiotic, neurotic, incredibly superficial, and an immature obsessive internalization of stress.
fbutt09
Whhhaaaaaaat? Give me some of the stuff you are smoking.
Alastor3
He had pancreatic cancer, right? I think you hardly survive that anyway :(
shimmernshine
I don't think the Wii U gave Iwata cancer.
myloveforyouislikeatruckberserker
Oh my god, why is imgur littered with smarmy, smug bastards like this
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shimmernshine
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fedeki
downvote works!
shimmernshine
Did he say 'making fuck'?
myloveforyouislikeatruckberserker
Ha yes!
AnalBaguette
Obviously, but that amount of guilt and stress from having your main product fail can shorten your life with a disease like that.
EverythingISeeIsAJojosReference
He was being treated while still running Nintendo too.
samsonguy920
The Wii U was a lot of good ideas put together, too. Some things just don't click with folks sometimes.
penguinboobs
For me it was, and even in used ones continues to be, the price. Am poor.
SlightlyMoreAppropriateUsername
I absolutely love breath if the wild on the Wii u, gorgeous and I could play it in bed, just wow
PostNutDepression
I feel like ultimately the wii u will just be remembered as the prototype for the switch.
SeriouslyFookOff
The problem was a lot of people didn't think the Wii U was a new console. They thought it was a Wii accessory.
AnalBaguette
Target even had an ad with the Gamepad on top of a Black Wii at launch.
alsowhatsaderp
I thought it was an accessory until right now.
ikindacarebutimostlydont
It definitely had some good ideas, but from the way they talked about it, sounds like the Switch is what they wanted the Wii U to be.
8hourgamer
The name hurt it more than anything else. "Wii-2" or "Wii-HD" would have sold better. Cost of including da tablet was the 2nd big mistake.
samsonguy920
Nintendo was still stuck in Silly-Name Mode then. The Switch is actually a practical and cool name, which no doubt helps it.
CptnHobbes
I love my Wii U. The second screen idea was super cool in most games that used it, not many developers wanted to spend the time on it though
caramelballoffur
Its not really that developers didn't want it, it is that Nintendo didn't want them. They have always been very restrictive with 3rd parties
LibrarianCatLady
Love my Wii U too. I can take the small screen with me to the tub while bubble bathing.
ohmygodstop
I also love my wii u, I can plug i in to any outlet and play Zelda or SSB on the second screen even w/out a tv.
UnabashedBasement
I've never played the Wii U before, but I feel as if the main reason it flopped was because developers didn't want to program for it
UnabashedBasement
Compared to other consoles which might be easier. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
ChlorideCull
Limited hardware compared to competing consoles, and that second screen meant a lot of extra work to make things play well on Wii U.
ChlorideCull
Poor sales meant you couldn't justify the extra work either.
AnalBaguette
I own a Wii U and its under my Switch. I was so disappointed when it didnt reach it's full potential. Still finding cheap gems for it though
samsonguy920
I am pretty sure the Wii U was what allowed the Switch to happen. That little system is like the U reimagined. Keep them close together.
shimmernshine
nVidia was working on an almost identical console down to the controllers as the Shield 2. It disappeared when Switch was announced.
samsonguy920
Cue that feeling in Civilization when you are one turn away from finishing a great wonder, and India finishes it instead.
AnalBaguette
It definitely did. The Switch feels like V2 of the Wii U, it fixed many of the issues people had. Now the 3rd Party games are rolling in too
jimwormmaster
And it didn't even take them 20+ years like with the powerglove/wiimote and virtual boy/3DS to do it better. Kudos to them!
MattDude
Iwata was a very good boss for video games because he was a programmer originally. His contributions to programming are spectacular
Dovahderp1337
Not just a very good boss, but a very good man.
bradphill920
Someone who I'd love to have met. Truly a man who loved his work, passion incarnate.
smashpro1
It's a shame I never knew how much his work impacted my own life until after he was gone.
TheFastpaws
A boss promoted from within knows what workers need. A college grad often only has the greed and garbage a book gave them.
fred28056
Except I'm sure almost everyone at Nintendo has a degree
TheFastpaws
You are splitting hairs on the topic. There is always a difference between a business degree & someone else.
IamMeWasTaken
https://youtu.be/QJ9pt61yosU
MetroidPrimeHesTheBest
"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer."
GoldenSun3DS
Jesus arrested him because of his illegal DS money printing.
noctynight
He understood the deadlines and difficulties. He wasn’t a suit walking in like, “What do you mean you’re not done yet?”
Boredashell
Rewrote a shit ton of code for a game once as well. I think it was Earthbound. Wasn't even part of their company.
buttsGameVoter
It was indeed EB. The game was a mess when he got to it, unstable and like a year behind schedule. He fixed it up with time to spare.
wyatt8740
He worked for HAL back in the day. HAL worked a lot on EB. EB's debug menu has Kirby in it.
Kingcrabby
It was because of him gold and silver went back to kanto
SneakyNeeks2
That shit was so bossss!!!!
PackedCatMeowingPowerDensity
Thank you for my FAVORITE feature in any Pokemon game ever.
oieokillertofu
And that's when I stopped playing.
BlueLanternBraxx
*Fucking 200 gun salute*
mavruda
and 47 fans making a seppuku at Sengakuji temple to honor him.
Zixtank
It was more than that. When the devs said G/S couldn't contain both Kanto and Johto, Iwata said "hold my beer" and (1/2)
Zixtank
Rewrote the entire game from scratch to accomodate for the extra region, alone in one week (or month, can't remember).
Crillol
I owe him deeply. If only they continued this tradition.
FillerNameToFillTheBox
The GS roms had so much empty space that he was able to cram Kanto in my reducing its size. The modern games don't have that empty space
blairmichod
No Pokemon sequel will ever capture the wonder of realizing that only half the game was complete.
JohnGGeo
I believe they put a secret golf game on the Nintendo switch in honor of him if I'm not mistaken...
tmoney199
Y
darkraix
Yes hard to open tho
dudechaos
Care to elaborate?
guardianofthegalaxy
Any tips?
IPoisonedDorcasMutton
DO NOT OPEN IT. It was done in the spirit of a Japanese tradition of protection charms sold at shrines. Opening the charm makes it 1/?
IPoisonedDorcasMutton
Lose all of its power. So if you open the Golf game, Iwata's spirit will no longer be there to watch over your Switch. 2/2.
360noscoped420blazeit
It is only available on the anniversary of his death, that exact day, by motioning with the joycons in the way he motioned in directs
darkraix
Pretty sure it only works on a switch that was never update
Radicool21
That's just awesome.