Talk:Satoru Iwata
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Hi. I'm Pikachu300. I'm here because I wanted to point out that Mr. Iwata was staring at those bananas because he wanted to show that he was making healthy changes to his diet to help overcome his tumor. He wasn't staring at them because he was trying to be funny. May I or someone else edit the page to say that, about the diet changes? Pikachu300 (talk) 00:43, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
An anonymous person is vandalizing this page by adding an external link to http://www.livejournal.com/users/satoruiwata/ (supposedly Iwata's LiveJournal). I removed the link once yesterday and once today. Please be on the lookout for future vandalism of this page. Colin McMillen 23:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Wasn't sure why it wasn't done before, but I added Iwata's "Who's your daddy?" quote during Nintendo's E3 conference of 2005. The quote might not be completely accurate, as I had trouble understanding one part (the part about taking names sounds a little off) and I was also wondering if it would be appropriate to link to Reggie's page in the quote? Jgamekeeper 22:52, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I uploaded a Satoru Iwata Image that I own from when I was at his e3 2006 keynote. I am the head of lithcast.com by the way.
URL of image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Iwata-lithcast-low_res.png
Can this be used? DSCUBED 01:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DSCUBED (talk • contribs) 01:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 04:14, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The picture is a little blurry... Anybody have a clearer image of Iwata?172.134.128.124 15:17, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
According to a few reports that I have seen from Nintendo, "President and CEO of Nintendo" is not his acting title. It is in fact "President, Nintendo Co., Ltd." (He is not acting CEO) Here are a couple of the places I have seen this listed as such, let me know what you think before I make the change:http://www.nintendo.com/corp/annual_report.jsphttp://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/management/message.htmlhttp://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/110426/index.html
This is how I plan to source them:
"Message From the President." Nintendo: Management Policy. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/management/message.html>.
Iwata, Satoru. Financial Results Briefing for FIscal Year End March 2011. Nintendo: IR Information. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/110426/index.html>.
Nintendo, Co. Nintendo Annual Report 2011. N.p., 31 Mar. 2011. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://www.nintendo.com/corp/annual_report.jsp>.
Tdornenburg (talk) 20:34, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Not being well versed enough in Wikipedia formatting I cannot make the changes myself, but Nintendo has just issued a released stating that Satoru Iwata has died: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.196.91.110 (talk) 23:55, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
He had the bile duct issue found in 2014 (http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/stock/meeting/140627/index.html)The cancer must have gotten worse and he passed away today (http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6045:100:3DF5:6770:1A44:7AB8 (talk) 00:30, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with the practices of Wikipedia, but I feel this page needs to be protected. There's an unacceptable amount of vandalism being done. I'm going to try to review the protection policies, but if this could be contained quickly I would appreciate it. Ursonano (talk) 00:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Could somebody that's able to edit the page, please fix the trolls. And then keep it locked. Thank you.99.45.30.40 (talk) 00:23, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Change death date to "Died: Gods cannot die. (2015)".50.178.236.103 (talk) 00:30, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Occupation should be changed to Former OccupationGodzillacraft (talk) 01:57, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
As he died whilst holding the position it is correct to leave it as his occupation. Spazturtle !DERP/3/PiM Talk 04:13, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
should be half-staff. mast is when in reference to ships. --Johnny Durianseed (talk) 06:01, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Under the bolded Career heading, third paragraph starting with: the phrase "At the time of Iwata's promotion, Nintento was.."Nintento should be Nintendo.
Please change "He was survived by his wife..." (under "Illness and Death") to "He is survived by his wife..." His wife is currently alive.Kingat95 (talk) 18:09, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Iwata voluntarily cut his salary in half to help Nintendo's poor finances and to better compete against Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment.[15][16] In 2015, Iwata put part of Nintendo's focus on the growing mobile game market, creating a partnership with mobile provider DeNA to publisher titles, as traditional hardware console sales began to falter..."
Should be changed to:"Iwata voluntarily cut his salary in half to help Nintendo's poor finances and to better compete against Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment.[15][16] In 2015, Iwata put part of Nintendo's focus on the growing mobile game market, creating a partnership with mobile provider DeNA to publish titles, as traditional hardware console sales began to falter..."
publisher changed to publish — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arithmaldor (talk • contribs) 18:44, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Why does the recent death tag at the top keep getting removed from the article? Isn't it supposed to stay up after a couple of days? GamerPro64 05:07, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I find it misleading to say that it was in July that Iwata's bile duct tumor resurfaced. A picture dated June 23rd surfaced that showed him clearly in crippling health, in addition to him missing out on E3, and only appearing as a puppet. It had probably already resurfaced by then.--24.79.103.70 (talk) 18:15, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Collecting sources to expand negative aspect to amend balance issues (per FAC).
The comparatively weak response to the Wii U isn’t lost on Iwata. “Certainly I’m not satisfied with the current situation,” he says. “It may not be [people’s] first console of choice, but they recognize it as perhaps the best second console,” he adds. In truth, the Wii U may turn out to be a placeholder. “I think they’ve bought themselves time to figure out what that next monumental step forward is,” says Digital World Research analyst P.J. McNealy. Adds Yves Guillemot, CEO of games publisher Ubisoft: “The challenge for Nintendo now is to make sure their hardware continues to be convincing enough for people to buy.” Guillemot is confident the company can do that.
Cyclonebiskit (talk) 20:29, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hello editors. My wife frequently suffers from insomnia, and one thing we've discovered is that reading from Wikipedia is an effective way of . . . boring her to sleep. To that end, I have been reading Wikipedia articles to her for a few weeks (when she needs it). Having recently finished reading List of common misconceptions, I've been trying to decide what to do next. Today I had the idea that I could help out the community by recording the reading of the article, and contributing to the WP:SPEAK project. I plan on recording this article, Satoru Iwata soon (next time she needs some help). McKay (talk) 04:29, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
According to the FA template above, this article will be tomorrow's featured article. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Iwata-san's death, so it's a bittersweet thing, I guess.
As a warning, you may want to keep an eye out for vandalism, as this article will likely be actively being looked at (because of the anniversary tomorrow) and will be on Wikipedia's front page tomorrow (so it'll be easily accessible). -- Gestrid (talk) 22:35, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Just for readers, nobody in Japan celebrates St Patrick's Day so Iwata working on St Patrick's Day wasn't a big deal since everyone in Japan who works , works on St Patrick's Day. Moreover, Valentine's Day isn't as big in Japan as it is elsewhere (obviously), so Iwata working on Valentine's Day wasn't a big deal either (since over 70 percent of Japan workers, work on Valentine's Day, over 80 percent of regular Wikipedians edit Wikipedia on Valentine's Day too). Holidays as mentioned in the article probably mean Japanese holidays, Independence Day for Japan, Christmas, New Years Eve-Day and possibly Helloween. 188.253.228.18 (talk) 06:26, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have just uploaded 2 to Wikimedia Commons. I would like a discussion about whether 1 or 2 would be better for the infobox. I prefer 2 because Iwata is facing towards the camera. This gives the reader a better view of his face. FunnyMath (talk) 05:26, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
On second thought, I think 3 is better because it gives a closer view of his face. FunnyMath (talk) 23:32, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It has been over two weeks since I made this proposal and there have been no responses thus far. I will change the infobox image to my preference. If there are any objections, you may revert my edit, but please discuss in this section as well. FunnyMath (talk) 01:56, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The Wikipedia Library proved to be very useful in finding sources. For any editors trying to improve references, here are the Barron's articles, including two that are behind subscription walls:
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Why there isn't anything about the games he worked on MSX?He was the producer on Rollerball (1984), Super Billiards (1983), Hole in One Professional (1985) and others like Gall Force and Eggerland Mystery.
A list of a lot of games he worked on can be seen on Mobygames — Preceding unsigned comment added by SLotman (talk • contribs) 12:52, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Moved from WT:VG archive by MilkyDefer
As a part of the move to improve the quality of the WikiProject's high and top-importance articles, some editors have been translating the featured article Satoru Iwata into Chinese.
Most of the translation is done by me, and there are some people actively checking the sources, correcting my translation and creating relevant articles. During translation I encountered some disturbing issues with the article from English Wikipedia. Looks like there is little to no activity in the article's talk page, so I put them here.
Iwata purchased an HP-65, the first programmable calculator, in 1974.As most of the sources claim that it is an HP-65, this particular source from 4Gamer, a reliable source, claims HP-67. Japanese Wikipedia adopts this and says HP-67. I personally believe that 4Gamer made a mistake, but I am not 100 percent sure. I checked against the original source (book by Inoue, translated into Chinese), and I see failed verification everywhere.
The several simple number games Iwata produced, such as Volleyball and Missile Attack, made use of an electronic calculator he shared with his schoolmates.This sentence cited two sources, and looks like the second one, from news.com.au, have nothing to do with this claim.
Volleyball and Missile Attackpart.
Tomohiko Uematsu, an engineering professor, noted Iwata's proficiency with software programming and remarked that Iwata could write programs faster and more accurately than any of his other students.I checked on the original source in Japanese. It looks like that Tomohiko Uematsu is Mr. Iwata's classmate who later became a professor. Also, he compared Iwata's programming ability against other classmates, not his students.
Nintendo initially contacted several other developers to produce Open Tournament Golf; however, all of them declined as they did not believe the large amount of data could be stored within an NES cartridge.I checked the source. It actually refers to Golf, not Open Tournament Golf. The source says that "...After that, we made F-1 Race, ...", it implies that the golf game is released before F-1 Race (1984), thus ruling out the possibility of NES Open Tournament Golf.
Iwata also promoted Miyamoto, Genyo Takeda, Yoshihiro Mori, and Shinji Hatano to representative directors on the company's board of directors, equaling his own position.Neither of the two sources support this sentence. This report from Nintendo partly supports this claim, but it showed that Iwata's becoming president and Miyamoto etc.'s becoming directors happened at the same time, so I couldn't verify that Miyamoto, etc. were promoted by Iwata.
Due to his success, Barron's included Iwata on their list of the 30 top CEOs worldwide from 2007 to 2009.This sentence cites two sources, one in 2007 and one in 2009. I couldn't verify that he is also included on the list in year 2008. Maybe that Barron's source also includes this information, but it requires subscription.
The fiscal year is represented by the calendar year in which the period begins, found in fiscal year#Japan. I'm pretty sure Nintendo follows this rule. Milky·Defer >Please ping me while replying to me... 01:20, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Although he acknowledged the practice as a viable means of promoting games in the short-term, he considered the model outdated and not a sound direction for core development.Completely failed verification. The cited Engadget source have nothing to do with "free-to-start". The Time source mentioned nothing about
promoting games in the short term. Also, according to the source, Mr. Iwata did not see "free-to-start" as
outdatedand "a bad direction for core development". What he said was that some people believe that traditional packaging model was outdated, but he did not think so. He believed that both "free-to-start" and traditional models have their suitable scenarios. Correct me if I am wrong.
Following Iwata's death, general directors Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda temporarily managed the company together.Miyamoto and Takeda are not general directors. They are representative directors. The CNNMoney source didn't say that they were general directors, either.
Buddhist funeral services for Iwata were held in Kyoto on July 16 and 17. Despite stormy weather produced by Typhoon Nangka, an estimated 4,100 people attended to pay their respectsI checked the three sources in this sentence. Excluding the WSJ source which requires a subscription, the remaining two sources made no mention to
Buddhist. One of them mentioned "Japanese custom", and I didn't really understand what's the link between buddist and custom. Also to mention, the
Typhoon Nangkapart is not direct enough. Sources mentioned that there was a typhoon, without saying its name. I think that there was only one typhoon in Japan at that time so I believe that might be fine.
and his ashes were buried at an undisclosed place in KyotoSource did not claim that. It only claimed that his remains were cremated, but made no mention of its burying place.
As the source checking is still ongoing, there might be more problems throwing out by our community. Please help us by clarifying the facts from the article.
With gratitude, the sincere one representing the Chinese Wikipedia WikiProject Video games community: Milky·Defer >Please ping me while replying to me... 15:08, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@GamerPro64, Masem, Cyclonebiskit, and PresN: Looks like not many people is caring about this thread. Is it a good idea that I put it into a Featured Article Review? Milky·Defer >Please ping me while replying to me... 16:53, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]