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Satoru Iwata Passed Away on July 11th

In 2000, Iwata took a position at Nintendo as the head of its corporate planning division. When Hiroshi Yamauchi, the company's president since 1949, retired on May 31, 2002, Iwata succeeded as Nintendo's fourth president. He continued to help out at HAL as a consultant. He commented on Nintendo games in his section of Nintendo's Wii website, Iwata Asks. Iwata also worked on The Legend of Zelda, Mario, and the Animal Crossing series of games. He also played a cameo in WarioWare: Smooth Moves, where he is referred to as "Shop Manager Iwata". On April 24, 2013, he also took the role of Nintendo of America's CEO.[6] As one of his first changes as CEO of Nintendo of America, Iwata decided that they wouldn't hold large press conferences at E3, and instead have several smaller events, each aimed at a certain demographic.

Reading this broke my heart, he was such a great Man.</3
 
My deepest condolences to all who knew Iwata personally, and all who knew him from all the amazing games he helped create.

Thank you. Truly, thank you Iwata.
 
Thank you, Iwata, You've helped me with many nights of endless tears and gave me an escape for when things really hit the fan.
 
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Now, I'll leave you guys with these nice remixes of
N's Farewell from Black and White

and "I Don't want to say Goodbye" from Explorers of Sky
 
May he be Forever in our thoughts, Thank you Iwata so Much.
You done your part, you may now lay your head to rest.

 
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I'm actually crying now. :'C

He made a lot of our favorite Nintendo games from our childhoods a reality, from Earthbound to Pok?mon Gold and Silver to a lot of Nintendo games he produced throughout the past years. He was a very passionate guy that try to make everybody happy even in the darkest of times. Hell after everyone **** talked about Nintendo's E3 this year, he personally came out and said that he'll try to make next year's E3 a great one, and unfortunately he's gone now...This is a really sad day for all of us and here

May he rest in piece.

 
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Also, I stole this from a comment on Gamnesia, but it was too perfect to pass up sharing.

This is Satoru Iwata. Now, most know him as the president of Nintendo, but guess what? He didn’t start out as a pencil-pusher, noooooo. This guy is a programming badass. Some of his feats include:

1. Programming Earthbound from scratch. This was a game where the original coding was a mess. But Iwata don’t care. He just completely did over the game and managed to make it work.

2. He ported the battle code of Pokemon Stadium to the Nintendo 64, WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE DOCUMENTS.

3. You know Gold and Silver? The most popular Pokemon games ever? Since Gamefreak was still kind of noobish, they managed to fill the cartridge with just Johto. What does Iwata do? He compressed it enough for them to fit Kanto in. That’s right - this mofo compressed an entire game down when the developers couldn’t figure out how to make it work. Iwata don’t care!
So, yeah. Between Sakurai, Miyamoto, Masuda, Tajiri, and Iwata, Nintendo is pretty much run by programming badasses.
 
I just heard about this really sad news and I'm heart broken. Rest in peace Iwata :( thank you for helping to create many fun times and memories. You will be loved and forever missed!
 
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I honestly don't know what to say that Hasn't already been said on this thread. All I can do is leave you with the most approriate song I could Think of:

"Don't Speak Her Name" from Fire Emblem Awakening
 
So sad he passed away, he did a lot for Nintendo :( Rest in peace, Mr. Iwata.
 
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