Topic: Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has passed away.

Disease is a horrible thing, lost my father a month ago to ALS. I feel the pain and my heart and thoughts go out to his family. RIP Mr. Iwata

@OutCold: I'm really sorry to hear about the loss of your father. I can't even imagine how you feel right now.

@OutCold: oh man my sympathies. Don't ever beat up on yourself for sadness, it is sad to lose someone so close and it takes time to get to feeling better again. The loss needs a place somewhere.

We could've seen this coming, but man, today is a sad day.

Oh my, that is just surreal.

Iwata's notable accomplishments:

• HAL Laboratory as game developer.
• Developer of Balloon Fight.
• One of Kirby's developers.
• Helped developing Mother/Earthbound series and was able to bring some of them to the west.
• Helped debugging the entire Super Smash Bros. for N64.
• Co-Founder of Creatures Inc. known for developing Pokémon games.
• Successfully able to include Kanto region into Pokémon Gold/Silver along with Johto by compressing regions' data sizes.
• Programmed Pokémon Stadium N64 using Pokémon Red/Blue original coding.
• Introduced GameCube on behalf of Hiroshi Yamaguchi in 2001.
• Earned the respect of Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Nintendo's 3rd president, and was appointed as 4th CEO of Nintendo in 2002, and the first to succeed in running Nintendo that's not from Hiroshi's family.
• Revolutionized the gaming industry by revealing Nintendo DS in 2004, and Wii in 2006.
• Revealed Nintendo 3DS in 2011 and Nintendo Wii U in late 2012.
• Created Nintendo Direct, a monthly or bi-monthly video event that provides updates about Nintendo games.
• Took a courageous choice of saving some employees from the layoff by cutting half of his salary when the company faced net losses for two years straight.
• Iwata Ask, a segment of which Iwata interviewed with different developers for Nintendo consoles..
• Created Nintendo Digital Event.

His famous quote:

"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer."
Satoru Iwata in his keynote speech at GDC 2005

It wouldn't be grandly profitable, but it would be grand if they made an Iwata amiibo.

I think that's an awesome idea.

I've been thinking; All of these major changes this year, with Club Nintendo getting replaced, the partnership with DeNA, the partnership with universal studios, the general expansion of Nintendo IP, etc., I wonder if Mr. Iwata had a sort of near-death experience with his surgery last year, and with a sudden revelation, attempted to turn the company around with changes that would help the company after his passing. Or maybe some of these changes were made before the fact; I don't know, but it makes me feel like the company is going to be fine for at least a few years with his influence.

This just makes me even more anxious to find out what the NX is all about, because it's going to have a whole lot of Iwata in it.

@Nicolai: I thought that too. I wouldn't be surprised if he planned ahead, considering how ill he was.

I do hope that the new overseers do it justice.

But seriously: they already showcased Iwata's mii Fighter. I'm sure having him as skins wouldn't be that hard either. I would definitely buy one.

@Nicolai Maybe he knew he was dying, and wanted to get as much done as possible before he passed.

Nintendo,make an update to MM3D where you add Iwata's Mask to the Happy Mask Salesman backpack now!

I saw this a while ago, makes me laugh every time I watch it. I already miss Iwata's "Direct" pose...

Wow......So how does it work and what to do to get it?

Btw, how is it that they put legacy for Iwata but not so much for Hiroshi Yamauchi or Gunpei Yokoi. Granted, Yokoi had his game and gallery series (Which is somehow missing btw....really wanted to try out the series.) But what about Hiroshi Yamauchi besides Majora's Mask?

http://www.gonintendo.com/stories/238378-peta-shares-a-statem...

We at PETA are deeply saddened by the death of Nintendo's Satoru Iwata. Many of us grew up with Nintendo—we've celebrated games such as Nintendogs, which PETA Europe named Best Animal-Friendly Video Game, and our love for these games powered the parodies we've made, such as the Super Mario Bros.–spoofing Super Chick Sisters, in which players try to save Princess Pamela Anderson from the evil Colonel Sanders, and Pokémon Black & Blue: Gotta Free 'Em All, in which players battle to free Pokémon from human enslavement. Our thoughts are with Mr. Iwata's family and everyone at Nintendo today.

Edit: Here's Skype

Tis a sad day indeed. He seemed to be a truly genuine person and really cared about the fans and those whose lives Nintendo's games have affected. Which is more than you can say about many of the people in the industry today.

The PETA one actually disgusts me. They demonized Nintendo's most popular games, and now they say they love Nintendo, and have sent a generic PR response in order to win some internet goodie points. Despicable.

i wanted to refuse to post PETA's since they did make really bad games, but since PETA :"is so sorry to see him go" i may as well post it,

did like what Skype said

I feel bad now knowing what I was doing in the last moments of Iwata's life....