Shigeru Miyamoto tunnetaan muun muassa Marion ja The Legend of Zeldan luojana. Nyt pelisuunnittelijamaestro on avannut sanaista arkkuaan edesmenneestä Nintendon johtajasta Satoru Iwatasta. Tiedot ovat peräisin Japanissa julkaistusta uudesta kirjasta Iwata-San.
Itse teos on japaniksi, mutta Dual Shockersin mukaan Miyamoto kertoo yhteisestä ateriastaan Iwata kanssa. Tuolloin Iwata työskenteli vielä HAL Laboratorylla. Sittemmin tuli tavaksi jakaa ideoita maanantaisin lounaalla. Niin ikään Iwatan Miyamotoa nuorempi ikä ei muodostunut ongelmaksi, kun Iwatasta tuli Miyamoton esimies Nintendolla.
"Nintendo doesn't pay for social expenses, so we had to go Dutch on the bill. That became a tradition that lasted even after he became company president and I became an executive."
"Normally, if someone younger than yourself with fewer years of experience becomes president, it might be difficult to get along with each other, but it was never like that. It had been obvious that he was more suited for the position (than me), so it never became a problem. I think it allowed us to naturally become true friends."
"Nintendo has been doing just fine. He left many words and structures that live on in the work of our younger employees today. The only problem is that, if there is some good-for-nothing idea I come up with over the weekend, I have no one to share it with the next Monday. That I can no longer hear him say 'Oh, about that thing...' is a bit of a problem for me. It makes me sad."
"To me, he was a friend more than anything. It never felt like he was my boss or that I was working under him. He never got angry; we never fought about anything."