Most game industry executives, when they deign to speak to the public, drop into careful, manicured, business-focused management speak that's almost completely void of character or, indeed, information. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata was different.
Yes, Iwata often spoke dryly about Nintendo's businesses realities, especially in the Q&A sessions that accompanied Nintendo's quarterly earnings calls. But in his 15 years as president of Nintendo, Iwata often opened up publicly in speeches, interviews, and a series of candid "Iwata Asks" interviews with his fellow Nintendo employees. Through these, Iwata often shared reminiscences of his time as a coder and developer for HAL Laboratories and Nintendo, offered intensely personal feelings about the state of game design, and urged the industry to push hard for more creativity.
Following Iwata's untimely death this weekend, we took a look back through these public statements and extracted some quotes that we feel best exemplified his life, philosophy, and management style. We believe this collection honors a CEO who was unique in the industry—and whose presence will be profoundly missed.
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