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