The late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, speaking before the launch of the Switch, discussed the need to “surprise” gamers rather than rely merely on existing hardware. The Switch has been ...

In the past, we had a lot of people who were all too loud and ready to be heard. Trip Hawkins and John Riccitiello loved to come up with witty criticisms of their rivals. Satoru Iwata of Nintendo didn ...

Model collection As many have said, we currently still know very little about the Nintendo Switch 2. At the very minimum we have no idea what the extra button does but for all we know there could be ...

Retired PlayStation executive praises rival Nintendo and shares the latter’s influence on his work, calling himself a ‘huge ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. Three decades after its debut in Japan, the Pokémon ...

The games have come a long way from the Nintendo 64 days, when Masahiro Sakurai and Satoru Iwata were trying to make a full-on original fighting game but then decided to swap those original ...

Pokémon and Metroid titles are still scheduled for a 2025 release, according to a Nintendo financial report that also reveals ...

Here are some key dates in the history of Nintendo, a video game giant that started life making playing cards: 1889: Founder Fusajiro Yamauchi starts manufacturing Japanese playing cards called ...

A former member of Nintendo reveals that the 100th anniversary of the company, surprisingly, wasn't celebrated at the company.

Subsequently, while Phil Spencer has been head of Microsoft Gaming for that decade, the late Satoru Iwata was head of Nintendo for 13 years. Sony’s situation is unusual for game console ...