Satoru Iwata passed away 10 years ago today

[Wman1996]

Mar1217 said:

Still felt surreal when it happened at the time. But to put the rose tinted glasses aside. The man was validitly criticize for the transition from the Wii to the WiiU era. Aside from that, the guy was basically as his business card said, just a delight. Kinda sad he at least could not go through the Switch era before an actual retirement ...

And considering what's at the helm of most of the industry. That attitude is seriously more needed from executives that actively used to have more power than shareholder leeches.

Yup. Even when he died and 10 years on, constructive criticism is still fair game with Satoru Iwata. 3DS launch window was a disaster, though fixed with help from him. Wii U was a disaster.

The man was an actual gamer and developer, which is awesome. And I respect greatly when he halved his pay to avoid layoffs.

I did think he needed to leave Nintendo due to Wii U, but I couldn't see yet how brilliant so much of Switch would be. His role as president of Nintendo was certainly vindicated in that regard. Because even by his death in July 2015, he certainly had involvement with Switch. 

RIP Iwata.