Satoru Iwata

Quick Facts

Full Name	Satoru Iwata
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Dec 6, 1959(1959-12-06)
Age	65
Date Of Death	2015-07-11
Birthplace	Sapporo
Country	Japan
Birth City	Hokkaido
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Satoru Iwata Biography

Satoru Iwata is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on December 6, 1959 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Fourth president at Nintendo He was named among the most successful chief executives in Barron’s Magazine.

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Satoru Iwata (Japanese: 岩田 聡 , Hepburn: Iwata Satoru, December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer and video game designer. He was the fourth president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo. He is widely regarded as a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games to a wider audience by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware.

He obtained his first computer, a Commodore PET, in 1978. He dismantled and studied the machine out of his desire to understand it. The computer coincidentally had a central processing unit (MOS 6502) similar to the one used by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), a gaming console for which he would later develop games. Following high school, Iwata was admitted to the Tokyo Institute of Technology in April 1978, where he majored in computer science. Tomohiko Uematsu, an engineering professor, noted Iwata’s proficiency with software programming and remarked that Iwata could write programs faster and more accurately than any of his other students.

He was wed with Kayoko Iwata.

Satoru Iwata Net Worth

Satoru Iwata is one of the richest Entrepreneur from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Satoru Iwata 's net worth $50 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He played simple number games using an electronic calculator at high school.

It was his first Nintendo president who wasn’t connected with the Yamauchi family by marriage or blood.

Satoru Iwata was born on December 6, 1959, and raised in Sapporo, Japan, where his father served as a prefectural official. Throughout middle and high school, Iwata displayed leadership skills through service as class president, student council president, and club president at various times. His first experience with computers was in middle school with a demo computer that used telephone lines. Iwata would frequent the Sapporo subway and play a simple numeric game, called Game 31, until he mastered it. With money saved up from a dish-washing job and some additional allowance from his father, Iwata purchased an HP-65, the first programmable calculator, in 1974. After entering Hokkaido Sapporo South High School in April 1975, he began developing his own games during his junior year. The several simple number games Iwata produced, such as Volleyball and Missile Attack, made use of an electronic calculator he shared with his schoolmates.

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Who is Satoru Iwata Dating?

According to our records, Satoru Iwata married to Kayoko Iwata. As of December 1, 2023, Satoru Iwata’s is not dating anyone.

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Iwata assisted in the founding of Creatures Inc. and The Pokémon Company which were established in 1995 and 1998, respectively, by Tsunekazu Ishihara. Iwata later coordinated licensing changes domestically and internationally with The Pokémon Company when it became its own entity. In 1998, Iwata helped his colleague and personal friend Shigesato Itoi establish Hobonichi by working as the company’s IT Manager. He acquired this position after being asked by Itoi one month prior to the June 6 launch date to arrange a website and the company’s technical systems, to which Iwata complied. Iwata personally enjoyed the role and even still held the position in 2007, despite running Nintendo full-time by this point. Soon after his promotion to president of Nintendo, Iwata assigned himself to a development team at HAL Laboratory working on Super Smash Bros. Melee, for the GameCube, to continue his programming passion. Stemming from his work with the Brain Age series, Iwata assisted in producing educational titles such as Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten DS, English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills!, and Imasara Hito ni Kikenai Otona no Joushikiryoku Training DS. He also worked on Animal Crossing, Mario, Metroid Prime, and The Legend of Zelda series of games, among other titles. He also had a cameo in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. Iwata partook in the development of Pokémon Go, an augmented reality mobile game, starting in 2013. The game was publicly revealed in September 2015, two months after his death.

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Satoru Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Satoru Iwata celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.

Following up on his 2002 interview, Iwata highlighted an urgency in the gaming market in his keynote speech at the 2003 Tokyo Game Show. During this speech, he reflected on the history of the industry and concluded with the declining interest in video games. A slump in sales in the Japanese market had begun at the end of the 1990s and continued into the early 2000s. Competition between Nintendo and Sony resulted in increasingly hardware-heavy consoles; however, the Nintendo 64 proved to be too cumbersome for developers and software suffered severely. After a year-long analysis conducted at Iwata’s behest, Nintendo concluded that pushing hardware was not the most effective way to promote video games and decided to focus on software. A major internal reorganization of Nintendo took place in 2004, with Iwata consolidating various departments established under Yamauchi. He sought to promote collaborative work throughout the company. He later established a “User Expansion Project” in 2005 whereby employees normally not associated with game development would submit ideas for new games.

Top Facts about Satoru Iwata

1. Satoru Iwata was born on December 6, 1959 in Japan.
2. He joined HAL Laboratory in 1982 as a programmer.
3. Iwata became the fourth president of Nintendo in 2002.
4. Under his leadership, Nintendo released the Wii and DS consoles.
5. He passed away on July 11, 2015 due to cancer.
6. Iwata was known for his programming skills and creativity.
7. He helped develop popular games like Kirby and EarthBound.
8. Iwata’s contributions to the gaming industry were widely recognized.
9. In 2015, he was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC.
10. His legacy continues to inspire game developers around the world.

What happened to Iwata?

In June 2014, a tumor in Iwata’s bile duct was discovered during a routine physical exam. It was removed, and Iwata returned to work in October of that year. The problem resurfaced in 2015, and Iwata died at the age of 55 from its complications on July 11.

Why was Satoru Iwata so important?

He was the CEO that took a pay cut rather than lay off employees during the lean days of the Wii U. And while working as a programmer at Hal Laboratories, he coded a solution to fit Pokémon on a Game Boy cartridge.

What was the last game Satoru Iwata worked on?

The very last game he took part in was the mobile game Pokemon Go. In addition to its easygoing nature, the game also encouraged social interaction and exploring the real world as a part of the mechanics. Iwata’s work on the game was only revealed months after his tragic 2015 passing.

Did Satoru Iwata create Kirby?

Kirby was created by Japanese video game experts Masahiro Sakurai, 47, and Satoru Iwata, 55. Sakurai is responsible for bringing the character to life. He created Kirby when he was just 19 and working for the HAL Laboratory. From there he made the first game, Kirby’s Dream Land, for GameBoy in 1992.

Who from Nintendo died?

The video game pioneer behind Nintendo’s groundbreaking console has died. Masayuki Uemura designed the NES’s cartridge game system. The video gaming community is mourning the loss of one of its early pioneers, Masayuki Uemura.