Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, has revealed that the Nintendo Gamecube had hidden 3D capability’s build into the hardware that were never utilized.
“To tell you the truth, GameCube is secretly designed to load graphical circuits which display graphics for right and left eyes respectively, for a future possibility of realizing 3D gaming experience. So actually we have had interest on [...]

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors at a recent quarterly Q&A session that the successor to the Nintendo Wii needs ‘something new‘ beyond HD.
“If asked if making the Wii compatible with high definition – just making it compatible with high resolution – will get players throughout the world to buy it, I would of course say: [...]

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted in an episode of Iwata Asks that the Zelda development process is traditionally ”an exercise in suffering”.
Satoru Iwata however is quick to point out that there’s one Zelda game which they’ve created that was “made in a completely different style and atmosphere, and had a major influence on those that followed.”
“I [...]

According to reliable online gaming publication, CVG, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata turned down the motion sensing device that became Project Natal due to the initial price tag in late 2007.
Despite being impressed with the prototype, Iwata was reportedly unsold on it as a peripheral for Wii – leaving the door open for Microsoft to snap up the technology and its creator a [...]

Satoru Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo, has cited the critically acclaimed Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask as a major turning point for Nintendo in terms of games design.
“Back then we were given a glimpse of the concept that deep, compact play is one form of the games of the future. I think in that [...]

Whilst the Nintendo Wii remains the best selling console of this generation it’s common knowledge that sales in recent times have been on the decline. Satoru Iwata has accepted this, and has issued a smaller target for the full year – only 20 million units compared to the previous 26 million forecast..
“Wii has stalled. [...]

Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, has causally informed investors that he doesn’t believe Nintendo need a new console anytime soon.
“Among the 295.6 million active users, 209.5 million people are playing with our products. To tell you the truth, we at Nintendo had set 200 million as an internal milestone, and we already surpassed it this spring!. [...]

Satoru Iwata firmly believes that the Wii’s accelerometers work better than the new technology that drives both Microsofts and Sony’s new motion sensing technology.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Satoru Iwata explained that Nintendo had experimented with motion sensing cameras but the technology was ultimately rejected primarily because the Wii’s current accelerometer-based technology worked better.
Until they [...]

Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, has sadly revealed that there won’t be a HD version of the Wii in the future.
Speaking to online publication, Venture Beat, Iwata states that there isn’t a high definition version of the Wii in R&D at Nintendo. Whilst the Wii won’t ever support 720p/1080i/1080p visuals, the next successor to the enormously [...]

In a recent Nintendo corporate interview Satoru Iwata revealed that Nintendo are working on several closely guarded first party titles this year.
Whilst he couldn’t comment on the wealth of top secret third party games due this year, he did however mention that Nintendo are working hard on several big titles that are due for release [...]