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Satoru Iwata: We'd love to have Kutaragi
Posted Apr 28, 2007 at 01:40PM by Kristine C.

Now, who would have thought it?

According to the German gaming site GameFront, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun has released a report about a press conference which has just been held by Nintendo. As most press conferences go, the Nintendo officials spoke about upcoming game titles, the financial gains of the company, movements and plans in general. However, one simple statement from Nintendo President Satoru Iwata made the event a whole lot more exciting.

According to the Japanese newspaper, Iwata stated that they "would love to see Kutaragi join up with Nintendo".

Now, this may generate a lot of reactions, but then again, how this will all develop would be nothing short of interesting. After all, Kutaragi's honorary position at Sony isn't exactly a very active office, and The Father of Playstation has also stated in recent interviews that his next ventures would mostly be independent from Sony, so there MAY be a good chance that he'll take Nintendo up on his offer. After all, it cannot be denied that Kutaragi has a long history with Nintendo, since he IS the guy who gave the SNES the gift of sound, via the SPC700 chip which he designed.

However, considering the fact that Kutaragi was also once badly slighted by Iwata's predecessors (think: Hiroshi Yamauchi, CES 1989, and a botched Play Station announcement... note the space in between "Play Station"), one can't really tell what Crazy Ken will do next.

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Darc

I sense something big..Who knows what pleasent surprises will Kutaragi drag along to Nintendo?A partnership with Square for an exclusive RPG?Great franchises?Great games?New technology?Better graphics for the same cost of the console?Who knows!

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Aru

I would say nothing. o.O

It seems completely illogical to abandon a very secure position in a major gaming company, to take up a lesser position, in another major gaming company.
Seems like the logical thing to gather from his statement, where he willed to "pursue future endeavors", is that he would move on from the gaming world, into a different field of work.

He left Sony on good terms, after all, nothing to suggest that he isn't happy with the way things were being done.

On the other hand, there were several changes in positions of power made within the company, and there could be more to the situation than meets the eye.
Only time will tell, I suppose.

Neebus

Why are they playing the "us too" game?


First Reggie says they were going to secure the little bigplanet developers before Sony and, now they want the man who has spent almost 11 years making Nintendo systems like garbage? Jesus, whats next? If David Jaffe died would they say they should get his lifeless body?


What ever happened to quiet Nintendo? I liked them when they said nothing and made 4 million Mario spin-offs.'


Go read up on how the Playstation came to be and you will see why this will never happen. Nintendo almost caused this man to lose his job, I really doubt he would just let that go and leave a company that he made the top dog in the home system games for something he has openly based forever.

Square already games on the wii that no other system will see.


Why do you need that? You have Mario!!!!!

Again Mario....you also have that lesbian bounty hunter and that gay kid in tights.

The wii kinda has that.

lawlz. Buy a 360 or PS3 if you want great graphics for the price of a console. the wii is all about TENNIS ELBOW!

Danuve

I don't really see anything coming out of this...it just feels like he said that to get some buzz going, but then again who knows the industry is full of surprises.

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Cereal&Milk

You're obviously a newb to the developer history. Nintendo was the original bad-***, super hyper, loud mouth console developer. The very same that hurt Sony's feelings and gave birth to the Repetitive Station franchise.

Nintendo had never been quiet. They'd only been the most cunning and calculating of all developers. So chill with the fanboyism.

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power_gamer_6

YAMAUCHI almost caused that man to lose his job.
Samus is not a lesbian (at least not to our knowledge), and Link is not gay, in the context of the word 'gay' that you are implying.
Also, your stupid comment about the Wii and tennis elbow is just that: extremely stupid.
I should warn you for instigating flames, but I'll let it slide because I'm a nice guy.

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Neebus

Right, because we all know they were trashing sony with their new with their superior sales durring the gamecube and N64 era.

Hurt their feelings? Yes, thats true but they also gave birth to a very big juggernaut that has helped the game industry tremendously.

I guess you're right, it is better to stand in the back and take notes.

Why should I? I'm less of a fanboy then some of the posters here.




Why is it? I'm just going off the facts that were printed in the news, hell even Nintendo warns their users of such things.

cinderboy

GOod news if he goes to Nintendo~ I mean why not~

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Ramstien

Pfff. Nintendo owes him.

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