Cubed Issue #1, January 2016 | Page 17

2015 IN REVIEW DEATH OF A LEGEND E3 2015 TOOK PLACE IN LA AGAIN THIS SUMMER, AND WE'RE HERE TO RECAP WHAT WENT ON. THE GAMES SATORU IWATA, 1959-2015 "I've never once been embarrassed that children have supported Nintendo. I'm proud of it. That's because children judge products based on instinct." Nintendo’s longstanding President Satoru Iwata sadly passed away on July 11th, his death the result of a bile duct tumour for which he’d had surgery in 2014. Iwata joined the TRIFORCE OF company in 2000, became President WISDOM and after the resignation of Hiroshi Yamauchi "I believe if Tetris in 2002. He was the were presented first person outside the today, here is what the producer Yamauchi family to lead Nintendo since would be told: Go back, give me its founding in 1889, more levels, give and his fresh approach me better graphics, shone through. give me cinematics, He set about and you’re rejuvenating Nintendo, probably going bringing in a “blue to need a movie ocean strategy” of license to sell that idea to the public." challenging the other console manufacturers by offering experiences they couldn’t hope to match. This led to ove