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Satoru Iwata Has Passed Away

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PhaZZe

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ElTorro said:
Here is a scaled down version for avatars, with a white glow to detach it from the background. And the original. It's quick and dirty.

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Anyone can add this to my avatar please. :(
 
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I really hope that he had been grooming someone to take over, someone he had hand picked to take Nintendo further.
 
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Eila

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Oh my god. I saw a thread elsewhere and thought it was a joke. I know his health was not the best lately but it still came as a big surprise.
May he rest in peace.
 
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JonathanNemo

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Best wishes to Satoru Iwata's family, friends, company, and everybody he touched in his life.

Someone needs to cure cancer in this lifetime. All our fancy gadgets, cute watches and electric cars and we can't kick this thing's ass? Bullshit.
 
Shmuppers

Shmuppers

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This seems so sudden; he seemed healthy in his last public appearance. He did what he loved until his final day.

Rest in peace.
 
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Hero of Legend

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woopWOOP said:
Man, this news affected me pretty big. Been sitting here having it linger in my mind for a good half hour now, ha...

Could someone edit that in my avatar for me too? I'd be in debt, thanks.
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How's this?

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I can make any changes in position and/or size if you'd like?

In fact, I volunteer to do this for ANYONE that wants their avatar with the ribbon. Just ask away.

Edit: Ah, see you now have it, but my offer still stands.
 
SerTapTap

SerTapTap

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Hell. I just got on twitter to tweet something else and saw this...went to three different sites to be sure it was legit. A great loss.

He was 55. Too early for this shit.
 
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Ryoku

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The company has grown a lot and has gone through many significant hurdles to be where it is today. Iwata made the Nintendo Directs interesting, and something to look forward to. Going from a game developer to the CEO of the most influential company in the entire industry is no small feat. May his legacy continue to move forward and no one will forget what he did for the company. Take rest, Iwata. You will be missed.

R.I.P.
 
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Ninja Boy!

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Here I was chilling as usual. Surfing the web and what not. Not a care in the world.
Then I loaded up the usual gaming sites then BAM, i read the title....
For a brief second of hope, I thought it was some troll post but it wasn't.

I've been an avid gamer since I can remember but I have never seen a man such as Iwata. Respect, Honour, Hard working and most importantly of all...he's a gamer at heart.

Sure, many people including the gaming press too often a time grill his work ethics, heck...even I have, but I've learnt one thing from all that. Iwata is an incredibly smart person. What he's managed to do from his beginnings till now is nothing short of amazing.

I'm just rambling on and could talk for hours, so i'll cut it short.

We've lost a Legend today, RIP Iwata.
 
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ShockingAlberto

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When Earthbound was having development troubles and lots of people were looking at completely dropping the project, Iwata sat down with Itoi to figure out how to save it.

http://kamedani.tumblr.com/post/45700864819/mother-2-re-release-discussion-part-1

–: Well, in 1989, the RPG “Mother” for the Famicom, created by Shigesato Itoi, went on sale. The sequel, Mother 2 Gigas Strikes Back, was being developed for the Super Famicom but, to put it simply, there were some setbacks. Is that okay?

Itoi: Sure.

–: At the time, the man who showed up while Mother 2 was having difficulties during development and needed to fix a number of things was Satoru Iwata-san. By the way, at that time you were both the President of HAL Laboratories and a programmer, right?

Iwata: Correct.

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Itoi: Wasn’t there a famous line Iwata-san delivered at the time?

–: I was about to say that! Well, as Iwata-san was checking how far you had gotten at the time, he turned towards Shigesato Itoi and I’ve been told said: “If you are going to…”

Itoi: “If you are going to continue to make this game like this, it is going to take two years.”

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–: If you want to speak, please tell the whole story.

Iwata: Um, according to my memory, at the time the project wasn’t even on its way to being finished yet. So the first thing I said to Itoi-san was “I don’t think you’re going to be able to finish if you go on like this.”

–: Wow.

Iwata: I continued and told him “I can help you if you would like but there are two ways to proceed.” That is when I said what Itoi-san just credited to me. I then went on to say “If we used what you have now and fix it, it will take 2 years. If we can start fresh, it’ll take half a year.”

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Itoi: Pretty cool, right?

–: Itoi-san, what did you do after hearing that?

Itoi: Well, of course I said “please!” but if I tell you the truth, at the time I didn’t really understand.

Iwata: At that point, I told him “I’ll try to get it working” and took what they had made up to that point with me. Exactly a month after that we got the map scrolling to work and showed it to Itoi-san’s team. They were all really shocked.

Itoi: Yeah, we were very surprised. We were all like “Whoa! It’s working!”

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–: Wow, development had had that many issues.

Iwata: Everyone was really surprised and the whole environment was oddly tense but to me I had the opposite reaction; it was odd. We’d only completed a simple task.

Itoi: We hadn’t even been able to do something “simple” for a while. Now that I think about it, we were in a bad place. From that point forward we all relied on Iwata-san. To tell the truth, it took half a year to get everything working.
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Blunoise

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Man what's going to happen to Nintendo now. The future Directs, the future of NX, this great man was man behind these ideas. I still can't believe this :(
 
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GtwoK

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Holy shit. It was years ago that they announced he was sick, wasn't it? Damn, I had no idea that he still had it, especially after being in the direct just last month, and even before that, in those (most likely) physically-tolling videos he made for E3 last year :(
 
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L Thammy

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Man, I've looked at the notification, I knew about his bile duct growth, I saw that he was looking thin as of late. But this still hasn't really sunk in yet. It doesn't feel like it could really happen. So sad.
 
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Bisnic

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Well, that came out of nowhere... i knew he was sick in the past years, but didn't know it was cancer.
 
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