174 Quotes by Satoru Iwata

People will buy hardware just to buy a single game if the game is really compelling.

For young players, classic games are brand new. For others, they are a way to feel young again.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

We believe a truly new kind of game entertainment will not be realized unless there is a new way to connect a player to his game.

At Nintendo, we do not run from risk. We run to it.

Nintendo's mission is to try to make people happy, to try to make people smile.

In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it then. So I went to classes on engineering and early computer science.

When it came time to take a job, I had the distinction of joining the smallest company of any graduate in my class. I left to become only the fifth full-time employee of HAL, and when I told my father this, you can imagine, it was not the happiest moment in the history of my family.

People sometimes ask me what I did when I was hired at HAL. The answer is that I was a programmer. And an engineer. And a designer. And I marketed our games. I also ordered food. And I helped clean up. And, it was all great fun.