
Before Satoru Iwata took over the calyx President of Nintendo Co. Ltd. about six years ago. The video game market still dominated by Sony with Playstation 2.
But now, when Iwata run the wheels of business in Nintendo, the Japanese original console games dominate the market the gadget in the world. Although the world is by the economic crisis, Nintendo Wii console, successfully sell 7 million units in Japan.
The success of Nintendo, is not separate from the cold hands of Satoru Iwata, a successful birth-generation Nintendo Wii in the year 2006. At the Wii launch, he had a motto that console games are really made for anyone, regardless of age.
The result, Wii become number one in the series with game console sales reached 34.6 million units, the superior of the Xbox 360 with 22.5 million units, and PlayStation 3 in the number 16.8 million units. Supposedly in PC Magazine, on Tuesday (9/12/2008).
Iwata is the founder of the family Nintendo, Hiroushi Yamuchi. It has been shown talent in the world game programmer when sitting in high school. After graduating, he continued studying at leading Technology University in Japan, the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Being part of the family Nintendo, does not necessarily make Iwata directly into the large company. He started his career game programmers into a small company called HAL Laboratory.
In 2000, Iwata work there. The result of his work is the first of the GameCube, failed to achieve the desired success. Console games that would compete with the Playstation that earlier boom.
Iwata offered a Nintendo Co. Ltd. president in 2002, when companies are experiencing a decline. The target to restore the glory era of Nintendo in the Mario Bros.
After repeatedly falling, and learn from previous experiences. Nintendo finally launched Nintendo Wii. Does not take long, Wii explode with extraordinary sales. By some circles, because the Wii’s success can combine these products for different age levels and hardware devices that fascinate.
Now Nintendo, the width can smile again. Other products, such as Wii Fit, and Nintendo DS and DSi, successful take similar results in the world.