The Videogame News Thread

[Raven2785]

Well, that sucks.

May he rest in peace, and am I a horrible person for thinking this as soon as I read Strife's post?

[GhostDIGIT]

...I laughed and feel awful for it.

[SeiKeo]

Prease understand that this saddens me. He seemed like a really great guy.

real?

[Kirby]

I



fuck

[2Bad]

Don't believe it, he's like Baron Munchausen, only dead when you believe it!

[bassgs435]

This is a sad day

[JetKinen]

Man, that came out of nowhere.

He always seemed in perfect health.

RIP in peace direct man.

[Riven]

I didn't even know he had cancer. This really is saddening.

[Rockxas]

He was such a fun person, always wanting people to enjoy and have fun with videogames, I truly hope he rests in peace.

[2Bad]

no

[Nuclear]

The first (and only) time I saw him was at the January 2013 Nintendo Direct announcing X and Y. I felt his passion for games, even from my computer monitor.

Rest in peace, Mr. Iwata, I hope you're teaching angels how to play video games.

[mewarmo990]

Gaming and the games industry suffered a great loss today.

...yeah, I'm gonna fire up the Wii tomorrow.

[Five_X]

Man, this hits hard. I hope whomever succeeds him will be able to capture even half of his passion and care for the industry.

[Riven]

Man, this hits hard. I hope whomever succeeds him will be able to capture even half of his passion and care for the industry.

Shigeru Miyamoto looks like the possible heir, so the dream can stay alive.

[2Bad]

I very much doubt it'll be Miyamoto.

[Mattias]

I hope whoever succeeds him manages to keep the shareholders from switching to all moblie games, like he keep doing.

[black1blade]

This is so sad. 55 is too young.

[Petrikow]

Whenever I read about Iwata he sounded like such a great person.

For someone who acted as President for such a huge company he seemed to have a very close relationship with his workers. He contributed a lot to some struggling projects with his programming skills, notably optimizing the memory of Pokemon Silver and Gold, as well as helping out Sakurai push out an ailing Super Smash Bros Melee on time by personally helping out with the grunt work. Some of these went on to become Nintendo's masterpieces, partly thanks to him.

I'm going to miss his Nintendo.

[Kyte]

For now Miyamoto and Takeda (Punch-Out, battery-backed saves & the analog stick) are subbing in until something's hashed out.

[2Bad]

“No matter the farewell, I think the most appropriate thing to say is “we”ll meet again.” We are friends so we”ll see each other again. There is nothing strange about saying it. Yeah. We’ll meet again.

Even if you didn’t have the chance to put into words how sudden it was going to be, how far you’d be traveling, or how you went much earlier than expected, I know you went wearing your best.

You always put yourself second to others no matter what, helping anyone who needed it whenever they needed it. You were that kind of friend. Although you may have been a little selfish for the first time ever by taking this journey.

The truth is though that I still don’t believe any of it. I feel like I am going to receive a message from you inviting me out to eat at any moment. I wouldn’t mind if you were to ask me like always if I had some free time. If you did, I’d ask you as well.

Still, “we’ll meet again.” It would be great to hear from you whenever and wherever; I’ll being calling to you too. I’ll call if I have something to discuss or I want to tell you a great new idea I’ve had.
We’ll meet again.

Then again, you’re here with me now.”

fuck