“Entertainment is there to improve people's quality of life. After your...” — Satoru Iwata Quote

“Entertainment is there to improve people's quality of life. After your basic needs, there's entertainment.”

“The heart of the matter is that everybody starts video games as a beginner. Then, after going through a lot of experiences and becoming more and more fond of video games, they become the experts.”

“If the first entrant always wins the market, the Dreamcast must have won the race against the PS2, for example. There are many precedents like that in the past. The first to market is not necessarily the winner in the race.”

“First of all, I've never once been embarrassed that children have supported Nintendo. I'm proud of it. That's because children judge products based on instinct.”

“On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.”

“We really cannot forget about the existence of the avid game fans - the fans of Nintendo games.”

“I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.”

“A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.”

“If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.”

“I rested only two days after my loss to Jim Miller.”

“After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.”

“After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.”