- Born
- Died
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Satoru Iwata was born on December 6, 1959 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. He was a producer and actor, known for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006), Metroid Prime (2002) and Metroid: Zero Mission (2004). He was married to Kayoko Iwata. He died on July 11, 2015 in Kyoto, Japan.
- SpouseKayoko Iwata(? - July 11, 2015) (his death)
- Saying "Directly to you" while raising both hands up and out at the same time during "Nintendo Direct" presentations.
- Took over as President of Nintendo Company, Ltd. in May, 2002 when Hiroshi Yamauchi resigned.
- The first president of Nintendo Company to not be related to the Yamauchi family line.
- He studied computer science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
- He was known as Nintendo's fourth president when he was elected in 2002.
- Became interested in video game programming when he was a teenager.
- [at a conference for game developers in 2005] 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.
- Most products in the character industry are consumption-based, in that they continuously repeat the process of birth and death. Only a handful of characters can last for one, two or three decades.
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