Nintendo's Satoru Iwata: Lost Interview 20th Anniversary Remaster Beloved former President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata said many profound and memorable things throughout his career, but thanks to a reuploaded and remastered Kikizo interview from E3 2004, we have even more.
Related While his remarks on the state of the video game industry at the time aren’t new, they feel almost prophetic in 2024, where most of his predictions about the console market have come true. For example, when talking about the then upcoming Nintendo DS and the Wii , he said that Nintendo’s strengths are about innovation. This, he added, would separate Nintendo consoles from competitors like PlayStation and Xbox.
“When other companies release products that are improvements on existing ones, the question is whether Nintendo can release something that can be called revolutionary. In this way, our goal is for our challenge to bear fruit, and I believe that is what we should be doing,” he continues. The jury is out on whether Xbox and PlayStation don’t have a future in consoles, but the numbers speak for themselves. The Switch has sold over 140 million units as of February 2024, despite getting released in 2017, and is working on a follow-up. While Microsoft and Sony are still in the console game, the former is focusing a lot of its efforts on cloud gaming and Xbox Game Pass, while the latter is stretching out onto PC for its first-party titles.