Satoru Iwata Quotes

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

The Wii had sold a hundred million units globally; the Wii U did not have that same level of success.

The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

PlayStation consolidated the second wave of gaming. There was a slack period before it came when nothing much was happening.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

Look at how many times we've improved on the Game Boy Advance in terms of the look, the feel, screen changes, and everything else. We believe that type of constant innovation is critical to driving this industry, and certainly if you look at the world wide sales of Game Boy Advance, I don't think anyone would disagree.

The appeal of Wii to nongamers has taken away some of the seasonality of sales we've come to expect in the past.

Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

Look, Pitbull is a product.

The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.

I'm big into the PlayStation 2. From what I've heard, the Xbox is the better system, but I can't get used to that controller.

The more consoles the better, because if there's more competition, they might get more open.

There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we're trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance?

Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games.

Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.

I'm hugely into video games; I always have been. I started on the Sega with games like Sonic, Battletoads, and Tetris... all those old-school games.

I skipped N64, but I got it later when I was older. I got Game Cube first, then N64 after that actually.