Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said the graphics capability of the hardware was also improved.
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To paraphrase Satoru Iwata, a late game ceases to be late after release, whereas a bad game remains bad forever.
During Nintendo's Japanese financial results briefing, company President Satoru Iwata revealed the company wouldn't be hosting a Keynote at E3 this year.
Earlier this year, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said, ''I have doubts whether people will be wearing glasses to play games at home.
All sarcasm, angst and bitterness aside, Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata recently affirmed that there's no Wii successor on the near-term roadmap.
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata pulled out the stops at his GDC keynote: the Nintendo Revolution will include both backwards compatibility and WiFi features.
ENGADGET: Nintendo Revolution to include backwards compatibility and WiFi
President Satoru Iwata will take a 50% pay cut while pondering how to fight new competition from the likes of Sony, Microsoft and especially Apple.
The iconic gaming company's much-buzzed-about hand-held 3-D device will go on sale in Japan in February, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said at a Tokyo news conference.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata introduced the device himself, explaining that it came with a tuner to receive digital broadcasts, which for now will only be picked up in Japan.
Satoru Ohyama, a managing director at Merrill Lynch Japan, claims that Bard anticipated the boom in i-mode mobile phones by predicting a "telephone computer" that would be a hot investment.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata summed all this up in a recently released statement in which he also said that he personally will not be speaking at these smaller E3 events.
FORBES: Nintendo Skipping Major Press Conference at E3 This Year
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's chairman, flies in later to hold presence alongside Phil Harrison, Sony's worldwide VP of development: announcements on next-generation machines from both parties are expected later in the week.
Yesterday Nintendo revealed its new Wii U console was selling more slowly than it had anticipated, and today company President Satoru Iwata explained the issues to investors in more detail.
Satoru Iwata believes they need to focus on the sorts of first party titles which draw people to Nintendo, and also acknowledges that the marketing for the Wii U has been abysmal.
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Let me put it this way: If Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata was a character in one of his own games, right now he'd be flashing colors, shooting fireballs from his fingers and flying around on magical wings.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently talked about how the Wii U's second screen was nearly scrapped due to cost concerns, so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to once again hear him talk about the importance of pricing.
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At the spring Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Nintendo President Satoru Iwata did not mention Apple once in his keynote speech and alluded to social gaming as pulling down the quality of gaming into a low-cost industry that may result in the dislocation of top game designers into the street.
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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata took to the internets to deliver an encouraging batch of news directly to fans, starting with a promised update to overall system speed of the Wii U, a welcome improvement to all those gamers who are short on patience -- which, really, is all of them.
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