Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has passed away

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf

Holy fuck this came out of nowhere, he wasn't even that old. Feeling for his family.

R.I.P

Noooooooooooooo!

R.I.P, legend.

WTF!?

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf

Official statement.

Was really unexpected

"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." -Satoru Iwata

Holy shit, I sure as hell didn't see this coming. R.I.P. Iwata-san, you died way too young. Only 55 years of age.

Dude wasn't some suit, he was a programmer and a fucking beast of one at that.

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1. Programming Earthbound from scratch. This was a game where the original coding was a mess. But Iwata don’t care. Iwata don’t give a shit. He just completely did over the game and managed to make it work.
2. He ported the battle code of Pokemon Stadium to the Nintendo 64, WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE DOCUMENTS.
3. You know Gold and Silver? The most popular Pokemon games ever? Since Gamefreak was still kind of noobish, they managed to fill the cartridge with just Johto. What does Iwata do? He compressed it enough for them to fit Kanto in. That’s right - this mofo compressed an entire game down when the developers couldn’t figure out how to make it work. Iwata don’t care! Iwata doesn’t give a shit!
So, yeah. Between Sakurai, Miyamoto, Masuda, Tajiri, and Iwata, Nintendo is pretty much run by programming badasses.

Fucking cancer, eh. RIP.

Cancer is cruel.

R.I.P.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/620486822494343168

http://mynintendonews.com/2015/07/13/nintendo-flags-lowered-to-half-mast/

It's kind of unreal to think about it. A legend is dead.

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When Melee was in development, he personally debugged the game to make sure it got out on time despite being a higher-up at the company (although not president quite yet).

He was intimately involved in the development of the early Pokémon games and (although I can't find a source on this one) single-handedly compressed all of the Kanto region to fit on the Gold and Silver cartridge.

When Earthbound was on the verge of cancellation, he rewrote the game's core coding to help save the project.

A lot of people don't realize it, but he was more than just an executive. He was a shining example of talent and devotion at Nintendo.

He put more blood, sweat, and tears into the company than anyone should ever be expected to put into their job. It will be a different Nintendo without him.

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He also reverse engineered the ENTIRE Pokemon battle system in a week without any design documents for Pokemon Stadium on the N64, a console notoriously difficult to program for.

Holy shit!

I honestly miss him, i can't say i'd say that about any other game dev apart from Kojima, Sakurai or Miyamoto

I thought it was a joke when i first saw it, looked up other gaming websites right away.

Was he in the Wii would like to play commercials? Honestly cant remember but i loved those.