Nintendo's Iwata Slams (kind of) Sony, Sega, Nokia and More...

**warnpro** · 14 Jun 2003, 05:32 AM

http://ultimategamez.com/newspro/ful...5525465,39117,

I hope this wasn't posted elsewhere, if so I couldn't find it.

Iwata doesn't hold much back while taking shots on everybody. He also is acting quite arrogant with the forthcoming handheld wars we'll see next year.
Maybe he's making these comments cuz he really feels threatened; the new 3D chip for GBA games could be evidence of that.

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Nintendo is going through a change. The once kiddyish company represented by Yamauchi is now under new hardcore managment under the defiant Satoru Iwata.

Recently Minagawa spoke to the press about Nintendo's commitment to the videogame industry.

“Our consoles have never lost money,” Minagawa said, “unlike the Dreamcast and MegaDrive which never recorded a profit. People regularly predict our failure in this business, but we're still here, meanwhile Bandai, Matsushita, NEC, and Sega have all gone. We have more experience and can produce characters and games as well as anyone. Xbox has already absorbed substantial loses, and unlike Sony, Microsoft indexes its profits. The GameCube arrived in the American market 18 months after PlayStation 2, next time we'll launch at the same time.”

Later he went on to take an aggressive stance against the soon to be handheld wars.

“Sony and Nokia will launch with nothing and we will already have 60 million Game Boy Advance players. We don't see the growth of the portable market as a threat, but an opportunity. It's allowed us to cut the price of components and release the Game Boy Advance SP.”

Nintendo knows that Sony stands no chance in the handheld industry, as the only reason Sony is number 1 in the console industry, because of a horrible mistake Nintendo made with the cartridge based N64.

**youandwhosearmy** · 14 Jun 2003, 05:36 AM

Wow,

He's a lil' sonuvabitch, eh?

I'd like to smack his goddamn face.

Hey wait, does this mean nitendo is now 3Xtr3m3 RoXor WTF, LOL!!1111111??

**warnpro** · 14 Jun 2003, 05:43 AM

Originally posted by youandwhosearmy
Wow,

He's a lil' sonuvabitch, eh?

I'd like to smack his goddamn face.

Hey wait, does this mean nitendo is now 3Xtr3m3 RoXor WTF, LOL!!1111111??

Ya man, he's definitely got a pair. I actually have some respect for someone who isn't afraid to speak his mind; even though a smack in the face might do him some good.

**Shine** · 14 Jun 2003, 05:50 AM

Originally posted by http://ultimategamez.com/newspro/ful...5525465,39117,
Nintendo knows that Sony stands no chance in the handheld industry, as the only reason Sony is number 1 in the console industry...

Bias much?

Either way I think it's just empty grand standing on Iwata's part (playing to current and potential stockholders.) They're probably holding meetings right now, about adding functionality to the GBA, to compete with Sony.

**Andy** · 14 Jun 2003, 06:01 AM

I'd love to see Itagaki kick Iwata's ass, tell him that Mario is a piece of shit, and then light up a cigarete.

**Shine** · 14 Jun 2003, 06:02 AM

**Mamoscott** · 14 Jun 2003, 06:02 AM

Originally posted by ShineAqua
Bias much?

Either way I think it's just empty grand standing on Iwata's part (playing to current and potential stockholders.) They're probably holding meetings right now, about adding functionality to the GBA, to compete with Sony.

Iwata didn't say the stuff you quoted.

I like this guy. He's got spunk. I'd be like that too if everyone was proclaiming death for my company even though Nintendo has made and is still making boatloads of cash. :kirby:

**youandwhosearmy** · 14 Jun 2003, 06:03 AM

Originally posted by warnpro
Ya man, he's definitely got a pair. I actually have some respect for someone who isn't afraid to speak his mind; even though a smack in the face might do him some good.

I like people with balls man, I do. But this has Bing "fucking" Gordon written all over it.

Peter Moore: "...and sega had to delay shemnue II for the Xbo..."
Bing Gordon: " Talk about your KILLER APPS!!!!"
Peter Moore:

**warnpro** · 14 Jun 2003, 06:04 AM

Originally posted by ShineAqua
Bias much?

Either way I think it's just empty grand standing on Iwata's part (playing to current and potential stockholders.) They're probably holding meetings right now, about adding functionality to the GBA, to compete with Sony.

Actually, I think those words aren't Iwata's as they aren't "quoted", but the writers own input in this story.
However, your assessment is probably right on the money.