Posts Tagged ‘Satoru Iwata’

Read “Iwata Asks: DSi, Vol. 5 and 6” @ NintendoDSi.com

I hadn’t even realized two more volumes of the lengthy Iwata Asks series of interviews about the Nintendo DSi were released until I read today’s Wii newsletter. But, here you go:
Vol. 5 – WarioWare: Don’t Touch?!
Vol. 6 – Brain Age Express

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Read “Iwata Asks: Rhythm Heaven, Vol. 1″ @ RhythmHeave.com

Rhythm Heaven will be released alongside the Nintendo DSi on April 5. It will be the first game of the series to be released outside of Japan (there were also GBA and arcade versions.) The object of the game is to tap, flick, slide and hold the stylus to the beat of background music. It [...]

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Read “Iwata Asks: DSi, Vol. 4″ @ NintendoDSi.com

21 days after the publication of volume 3 of the Iwata Asks interview about the Nintendo DSi, is a special fourth volume where instead of Satoru Iwata asking the questions, he is the one answering them. The interviewer? Yasuhiro Nagata, creator of the Mother series. Read the interview with Iwata here: http://nintendodsi.com/iwataasks/vol4_page1.html.

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Photos of Iwata from GDC

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Highlights of Nintendo’s GDC Press Release

(Note: the entire press release was posted here, but I decided it was really too long, so I’m cutting out the clutter and highlighting the good stuff – what we want to hear. You can read the entire press release at http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=17844.)

For the first six months after launch, consumers who buy the system and connect to the [...]

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Nice Quote From Satoru’s GDC Keynote

“After he upends the tea table, Miyamoto helps gather the dishes he has scattered, even suggesting where they should be placed.” – Satoru Iwata on Shigeru Miyamoto’s tendency to “upend the tea table” during game development. GDC ‘09, 3/25/09.

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Read Joystiq’s Live Blog of Nintendo’s GDC 2009 Keynote

Joystiq is over at this year’s GDC, Game Developers Conference, and is liveblogging the Nintendo keynote given by Satoru Iwata right now. Today is the first anniversary of the Japanese WiiWare launch, so both the Japanese and American Wii Shop Channels are closed for “maintenance”. The Japanese shop should re-open at the conclusion of Iwata’s [...]

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Read “Iwata Asks: DSi, Vol. 3” @ NintendoDSi.com

Along with an updated website, the third volume of “Iwata Asks: DSi” is up at http://nintendodsi.com.

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Read “Iwata Asks: DSi, Vol. 2” @ NintendoDSi.com

The second volume of the Nintendo DSi Iwata Asks interview is available for your reading pleasure at http://nintendodsi.com/iwataasks/vol2_page1.html. The people interviewed are: Shigeru Miyamoto, Yusuke Akifusa, Masahiro Imaizumi, Yoshihiro Matsushima and Tomoaki Kuroume.

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Official DSi “Iwata Asks” Announcement

Got the following email from Nintendo, officially annoucing the new series of “Iwata Asks” interviews relating to the Nintendo DSi:
Nintendo announces a new online series of “Iwata Asks” sessions covering a topic that is sure to be hot for the video game industry in 2009: [...]

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