Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime Pays Tribute To Satoru Iwata

Earlier this year, beloved Nintendo president Satoru Iwata passed away. Tonight at The Game betdog Awards, Reggie Fils-Aime paid him tribute. You y1 games can watch Reggie’s speech here: Show host Geoff Keighley also reminisced about a moment he shared with Iwata a few weeks before he passed away. He said Iwata looked “thinner than I thought he would be,” but he remained joyful and encouraging. “He was such an incredible man,” Keighley said before handing things off to Fils-Aime. “If you were to design the perfect person to lead a video game company,” began Fils-Aime, “you’d want someone who understood electrical engineering, who understood software design, and who understood business. Not many can claim this broad background, but Mr Iwata did.”cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1746105518","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"nintendo","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); “The man was fearless,” he added. “Remember how you felt when you first heard the name ‘Wii’?” To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or y1 com find him on Twitter @vahn16